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| The school district's Board of Education will receive a certificate to present to the educator, along with information about SENG resources and about The SENG Honor Roll. |
| The educator will be listed, by state, on the new SENG Honor Roll page on the SENG website. |
| The educator will be entered into a drawing, to be held March 30, for one of three free registrations for the 25th Annual "Silver Anniversary" SENG Conference, where the educator will be honored at a dinner. |
| All SENG Honor Roll educators nominated by March 30 will be honored with a listing in the 25th Annual "Silver Anniversary" Conference Program Book. |
SENG believes that The SENG Honor Roll will send a positive message to educators. There are three goals for The SENG Honor Roll Program:
| Provide local and national recognition for educators who make a difference in the lives of gifted children. |
| Encourage other educators to learn about the needs of gifted children and how to meet those needs. |
| Raise funds for SENG programs that support gifted children, educators and parents of gifted children. |
Anyone may honor an educator with a nomination to The SENG Honor Roll. Simply submit the SENG Honor Roll Nomination Form with a minimum donation of $50 per educator. Your donation is tax deductible and will be promptly acknowledged with a receipt.
If you haven't already done so, please fill out this survey by October 30th. Thanks! A Survey is to assess the impact of the report A Nation Deceived on attitudes, practices, and policies about academic acceleration...
For her dissertation, Laura Policar is collecting responses to surveys asking for teacher (either secondary or K-12) opinions and/or experience with interdisciplinarity. Please fill out the survey, or forward it to your children's' teachers or administrators...
Fill out either the Teacher Survey or Administrator Survey
Friends:
I have been corresponding with Jay Mathews, the influential education columnist for the Washington Post about a story he wrote last week. In the conclusion to his column, he wrote:
"Many parents around the country complain of difficulties in getting accelerated courses and enriched lessons for their gifted children.
... But
I have yet to find any adults who were designated gifted as children and did not think they were able to find at least some of the intellectual stimulation they craved at school or on their own. I also don't find much correlation, either in the research or in my interviews, between success in life and gifted education during childhood."
I wrote to object to this conclusion.
He responded to me that:
"I am all for acceleration, as i think i have made clear many times in all my writing about AP and IB, but i find it odd that i cannot, despite many requests to gifted child advocates, find any cases of families willing to tell me stories of failure to accelerate their gifted kids in this area. That kind of story would allow me to make yr good points in a vivid way. If you have a recent story like that, or know someone else who does, please send them to me."
So I wrote him back to ask for permission to ask you to send him these stories, and he reiterated his request for them.
I have been reading such stories for years--so all of you who have had these problems, PLEASE send them to him. I think you could extend your comments to the result of a lack of appropriate instruction in general, not just to grade acceleration, and explain why access to these services is important for your child. When he writes about acceleration he doesn't just mean grade acceleration but also advanced classes. Please keep your letters as short and to the point as possible--he gets a ton of mail.
If he doesn't hear from you, I can't blame him for assuming that gifted students in general are getting the "intellectual stimulation" they need in school and their parents are complaining about nothing!
His column is very influential. Every decision-maker in DC reads the Post and many read his columns. If he is persuaded that there is in fact a problem with inadequate g/t services and that a lack of services can hurt kids it will make a huge difference.
Please write to him directly: Jay Mathews mathewsj@washpost.com
If you copy me, I'd appreciate it, because otherwise I will spend all month wondering whether anyone responded.
Feel free to forward this letter. I think it would be especially interesting for him to hear from families that felt compelled to home-school their children.
Thanks,
Margaret
A Survey is to assess the impact of the report A Nation Deceived on attitudes, practices, and policies about academic acceleration...
September 5-15 get free access to everything Edweek.org has to offer!
... to estimate the prevalence of acceleration in our nation’s schools and to gather information on the attitudes of parents, policy makers, and educators toward acceleration as a curriculum intervention for gifted students, conducted by the Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration (IRPA), Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, The University of Iowa.
Complete this brief survey here, and/or Share your acceleration story here...
Donate your mind to science! Lisa White is conducting research on how parents and their gifted kids (grades 7-11) feel about each other. Visit www.giftedfamilies.com for more information...
June 11-25 get free access to everything Edweek.org has to offer!
The Senate is debating the immigration bill, and NAGC is supporting an amendment by Senator Charles Grassley (Iowa) (amendment no. 1156) that would increase fees for H-1B visas - those that corporations obtain to bring highly skilled employees to the U.S. and direct the increased fees to the Javits program.
It is important that you call both your U.S. Senators and urge them to support the Grassley amendment. Emails and letters will be lost in the crush of communications; we recommend that you CALL your Senators offices and leave a careful message. Details about the amendment, and what you should say when you call, are posted on the NAGC legislative update page.
Tribal Mensa Nurturing Program Mensa India is looking for...
- Educational software's
- Products: DVD, CDs, VCD etc. Children's films
- National Geography Old issues & new issues (paper copy)
- Children's Art & Performance work books
- Intelligence Quiz, Puzzle etc.
- Story books
- Children activity workbooks
- Documentary films about social, historical issues
- Films on health, hygiene & nature
- Other relevant products for intelligence nurturing
Subjects: Nature, Geography, Geology, Science, Maths, Space, Human Body, Places, Different Ecosystem, Biodiversity etc.
For more information, please contact Dr. Narayan R. Desai, Executive Council Member, Gifted Child Program Principle Investigator, Tribal Mensa Nurturing Program Mensa India, Jnana Prabodhini Bhavan, 510 Sadashiv Peth, Pune 411030 India.
(O) 091-20-24477691, 24478095 (R) 091-20-25388240 Mobile: 98226 26835
Email: nrd1675@hotmail.com, nrd1675@gmail.com
Postmark April 27th for $100 savings... visit Yunasa Summer Institute for the Gifted for more information
Young Black Men can go to college to become South Carolina teachers for FREE. Visit Call Me MISTER for details and application...
March 19 - April 15 get free access to everything Edweek.org has to offer!
Through April 30, current and back issues of the National Association of Gifted Children's journal Gifted Child Quarterly are available free to non-subscribers.
launched!New web site launched for students keen on math, scienceMiddle and high school students with a passion for math and science can connect with peers around the world to learn about and discuss everything from global warming to cold fusion through a new Web site called Cogito.org.
Cogito.org, which was spearheaded by the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth with feedback from bright students, is a totally free resource for students. Key features, all developed by the site's editors with an eye toward nurturing talent in exceptional thinkers, include:
| interviews with experts, |
| experts as online topic leaders, |
| profiles of young scientists, |
| science news, and |
| directories of math and science web resources, programs, competitions, and other academic opportunities |
CTY and its partners expect the site to be a math and science home for bright kids online and help produce a generation of young people whose math and science skills will enable them to become leaders in their fields.
CTY's partners in developing Cogito.org include other leading centers serving gifted students, based at Carnegie Mellon, Duke and Northwestern universities; the universities of Denver and Iowa; the Center for Excellence in Education; the Davidson Institute for Talent Development; and Science Service. The development of this site was funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Questions? cogitocty@jhu.edu
Casting call announcement removed; CBS was uncomfortable with their announcement being paired with these cautionary articles... Consider these sage words: Highly Gifted Children and the Press and Indecent Exposure: How Global Media Exploits the Gifted.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology, SF. I am collecting data for my dissertation, which examines interactions between gifted children and their parents, especially looking at gender differences and perceptions of support versus intrusiveness. I am recruiting participants, gifted children in grades 7 through 10, and their parents. All that is required is to fill out my online survey, at www.giftedfamilies.com. Please contact me, Lisa White, for more information. Thank you.
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In the literature, there is little opportunity for parents and family members to share their experiences. We'd like to help parents and families to share their stories so others can gain insights and advice for raising their own gifted children.
Share your family or parenting stories on our surveys. The second phase of the process will invite parents and families to take part in interviews to gain additional insights about growing up with gifted kids (or other family members). Ultimately, we (Jim Delisle and myself) hope to publish our work as a book for parents looking for assistance who are just realizing (probably through formal identification) that their child is gifted and different than age mates.
Smiles to you! Robert Shultz, Ph.D.
Visit www.giftedkidspeak.com click on "Parents and Families Questions"
Be part of a unique study that will contribute to the literature base. We are looking for parents, teachers, researchers, administrators, and gifted persons age 18 and over who are supporters of gifted education to participate in this study. Click below to fill out the anonymous online survey, which should take approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Participants can request a report of our findings.
Contact Jennifer Riedl Cross or Tracy L. Cross for more information.
Gifted Attitudes Survey -- Survey now closed
Researchers, practitioners, biographers, and theorists are invited to submit papers relating to global awareness and the gifted. Specifically, we are looking for articles about gifted individuals' interests, concerns, responses to and concepts of global interdependence, environmental, social, political, philosophic, spiritual, and multicultural issues as they manifest in the classroom, lab, and the world. In view of these topics, we are particularly interested in:
| Research about global awareness employing gifted groups; |
| Case studies or biographies of gifted individuals for whom some aspect of global awareness is (or was) a defining characteristic; |
| Pedagogic methods or curricular materials designed to respond to or increase gifted student's global awareness; |
| Psychological, counseling, and spiritual issues and responses to gifted individuals' global awareness, beliefs, fears, and concerns; |
| Theoretical pieces about global awareness that delineate conceptual frameworks or research agendas; and |
| Theoretical pieces about the nature of global issues that may influence the development of gifted individuals. |
NEW Submission Deadline: December 31st, 2006. E-mail Catya von Károlyi or Submission guidelines can be obtained by e-mailing ambrose@rider.edu
Advanced Development, a juried journal dedicated to issues of gifted adults, is published electronically. We invite manuscripts on this topic but also are open to papers on the general themes of giftedness, advanced development, and undeveloped potential, including but not limited to these areas:
| The role of environment in supporting/hampering personal growth in gifted individuals. |
| Support network research. Which models work best for the gifted? |
| The perennial issue of “fitting in.” Personal essays invited. |
| The phenomenon of resilience: Extraordinary coping. |
| Distorted social feedback, such as “Gaslighting” and its harmful effects. |
| Social activist exemplars. |
| Feminine styles of leadership. |
| Entelechy and career choice. |
| The extraordinary challenge of gifted parenting. |
| Uncovering therapies: Salvaging buried giftedness. |
| Unique paths: Individuals who made a difference. |
| Poetry, vignettes, line drawings, photos. |
Manuscripts are welcome at all times. Those received before December 31, 2006 will receive first consideration for Volume 11. E-mail Betty Maxwell, Editor, or visit Advanced Development for more details.
Teaching for High Potential (THP) is a quarterly publication for teachers, gifted coordinators, and other professionals interested in engaging and challenging gifted students in today's schools. We provide our readers with accessible, classroom-based materials grounded in sound theory and current best practices in the field of gifted education.
| Can you provide practical classroom applications of current research, theory, and best practices in the field of gifted education? |
| Are you proud of the innovative way you address the needs of gifted students in your school or classroom? |
| Have you created a successful lesson or unit plan that aligns with the NAGC pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Program Standards? |
| Do you have a story to share about your participation in a Javits research study? |
If so, we want to hear from you. Send manuscripts to: Jeffrey S. Danielian, Editor, THP or NAGC, 1707 L St., NW, Suite 550, Washington, DC 20008, Phone: 202-785-4268, Fax: 202-785-4248
This coming Saturday, October 7, 2006, the award-winning HighBeam Research Engine (www.highbeam.com) will make its premium online subscription service free for one full day. All visitors will have unlimited access to the full text of more than 35 million premium articles from more than 3,000 magazines, newspapers, academic journals, transcripts, newswires and more – updated daily and going back up to 23 years. Access to premium articles is normally part of a $29.95 a month or $149.95 annual subscription. Free Saturday will run from 11:00PM CST Friday to 2:00AM CST Sunday.
For gifted educators and parents, HighBeam Research offers journals including Roeper Review, Australian Journal of Education (articles by Miraca Gross), plus lots more!
Mom of highly gifted seven year old girl is seeking parents of other gifted children in the NYC area to help start up a private school (K-6) for the gifted (all levels) here in Manhattan. There are no private schools and few public alternatives for us.
We can do this!
Contact mcn123M@aol.com
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Sorry! Please pardon Hoagies' Gifted Education Page outage of the last 24 hours. We were the victim of incompetent technical support, not hacking. In trying to fix a small problem with their server software, GoDaddy accidentally removed our entire site from the Internet! As of this Saturday morning, Hoagies' Page is no longer hosted at GoDaddy. In spite of nearly a year's paid service remaining at GoDaddy, after a week of trying to work with their technical support, we determined that it's too great a risk to stay with GoDaddy for hosting. Our new ISP is 1and1.com where we hope to have no further problems. Thanks for your patience. -- Carolyn K. |
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Filmmaker
looking for profoundly gifted kids and/or misunderstood geniuses aged 7
to 18 in Southern California for documentary profile.
They can excel in the arts or science or math -- or be bored with
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Wanted: Emma Cooper is researching for a BBC documentary about gifted children. At this early stage she am interested in talking to as many people as she can within the gifted community, to get a full picture of what it means to be a parent, teacher or care-giver to a gifted child. Her team is keen to understand all aspects of being gifted; the support, promise and potential of these children. If you are interested in an initial chat, in confidence, then please contact emma.cooper@bbc.co.uk or 00 44 207 765 4584.
Hoagies' Note: Hoagies' Page does not condone or condemn contact with the press; each family must make their own decision. Be sure to read Kathi Kearney's article for more information... Highly Gifted Children and the Press
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A second chance! Dr. Andrew Mahoney and the Counseling and Guidance Division of NAGC still need our help with their campaign to address the special needs of counseling gifted children in the standards for graduate counseling programs beginning in the year 2008. Andy's new letter: A Call To Action. And this time, we can send, phone, fax or e-mail cacrep@cacrep.org our letters of support! Please copy all correspondence to Andy Mahoney, for coordination of efforts.
Since rescuing ERIC Clearinghouse for Exceptional Children (ERICEC) on January 1 2004, Hoagies' Gifted Education Page has more than doubled in size... and this year's link-check service bill has done the same, now $449/year! Hoagies' Page receives no government or private support for maintaining ERICEC, nor updating its links (nor for anything else). Please support Hoagies' Page through your individual donations, as well as your purchases through our affiliates links, so that I can go on providing the most accurate and up-to-date links on ALL of Hoagies' Gifted Education Pages. Thank you.
Dr. Andrew Mahoney and the Counseling and Guidance Division of NAGC need our help with their campaign to address the special needs of counseling gifted children in the standards for graduate counseling programs beginning in the year 2008. Andy's letter: Council for Accreditation of Counseling Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and 2008 Standards Revision Process.
Please send personal letters of support and testimony for this need to CACREP at CACREP Standards Review Committee, CACREP, 5999 Stevenson Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304. If you belong to or head an organization, please send formal letters of endorsement. Please copy all correspondence to Andy Mahoney, for coordination of efforts
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