Description: Explore the six profiles of gifted learners and how they can guide schools toward more robust and equitable identification practices. This session emphasizes strategies for recognizing twice-exceptional and multilingual gifted students, helping ensure diverse populations are identified and supported.

Description: Learn how to read psychoeducational evaluations to determine appropriate gifted services. The session will cover which scores to focus on beyond the Full Scale IQ and how to recognize poor or incomplete evaluations.

Description: This session equips educators with practical tools to ensure equitable access and assessment for English Learners. Explore translanguaging strategies that empower students to use their full linguistic repertoires, and learn how collaboration can create inclusive environments that honor cultural and linguistic strengths.

Description: Learn how to address the unique needs and challenges gifted students face when preparing for and entering college. This session highlights common traits of gifted learners, explores obstacles in the transition process, and offers strategies to support their success beyond high school.

Description: Explore how global mobility shapes giftedness through the lens of Third Culture Kids (TCKs). This session introduces the Transcultural Giftedness Theory (TGT) and offers practical strategies that integrate social-emotional learning with intellectual resilience to support identity, adaptability, and cognitive growth across cultures.

Description: Grounded in attachment-based theory, this session explores how secure relationships provide a foundation for gifted children’s emotional and cognitive growth. Learn how teachers and professionals can serve as supportive figures, fostering emotional security, confidence, and self-regulation, while gaining practical strategies to nurture both talent development and well-being.

Description: This session explores practical ways to use the Design Thinking process to engage students of all abilities, with a focus on highly able learners. Participants will see real-world examples at school, division, and classroom levels, and gain strategies to design activities that foster creativity, integrate personal interests, and build meaningful connections.

Description: Explore the process of launching gifted and enrichment services within an MTSS-inspired framework. This session shares practical strategies, tools, and frameworks—including Depth & Complexity, Habits of Mind, and the Autonomous Learner Model—used to identify student needs, support growth, and create meaningful enrichment opportunities, along with lessons learned from a pilot year.

Description: This session explores essential executive functioning skills, helping young gifted children manage impulses, focus attention, and achieve goals. Participants will learn practical strategies for early childhood settings to support self-regulation, planning, and flexible thinking, along with guidance for creating an actionable implementation plan.

Description: Explore how giftedness presents in varied ways through the six profiles by George Betts and Maureen Neihart. Using real elementary classroom case studies, participants will learn practical strategies to identify and support the full range of gifted learners.

Description: Learn how to create personally meaningful and engaging activities that foster a love of learning for high-ability students. This session covers the key components of a G&T classroom, strategies to adapt curriculum based on student interests, and provides time to brainstorm enrichment ideas tailored to your students.

Description: This session breaks down the college application process specifically for high-ability students. Participants will explore common traits of gifted learners, potential challenges they may face during applications, and strategies to support a successful transition to higher education.