Empowering Equity in Gifted Education
Virtual Annual Conference
February 4 & 5
Attendees
Registration will open soon. To receive early bird rates, you must register attendees and pay in full or submit a purchase order by December 1, 2020.-
AAGT Member All Access Pass
- $200 Early Bird Ends 12/1/20 (You Save $50)
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Your registration includes:
- access to all live sessions
- access to all breakout sessions & recordings
- a chance to win prizes in the virtual vendor expo hall
- special AAGT Member swag
- and more!
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Non-Member All Access Pass
- $275 Early Bird Ends 12/1/20 (You Save $50)
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Your registration includes:
- access to all live sessions
- access to all breakout sessions & recordings
- a chance to win prizes in the virtual vendor expo hall
- and more!
Business Sponsorships
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Silver Event Sponsor
- $300
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Registration Includes
- Inclusion in gamification to encourage attendees to visit your sponsor profile in event app
- 2 Minute Promotional Video
- Digital Ad in Event App
- Listed on website and social media as a sponsor
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Gold Event Sponsor
- $500
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Registration Includes
- Virtual booth in AAGT Exhibit Hall
- Dedicated time for attendees to talk face to face in your private zoom room (vendor must have their own zoom account)
- Inclusion in gamification to encourage attendees to stop by booth
- 2 Minute Promotional Video
- Digital Ad in Event App
- Listed on website and social media as sponsor
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Bronze Event Sponsor
- $150
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Registration Includes
- Inclusion in gamification to encourage attendees to visit your sponsor profile in event app
- Digital Ad in Event App
- Listed on website and social media as a sponsor
Dr. Jann Leppien
Climbing the Ladder: Strategies for Ascending Intellectual Demand
At the forefront of gifted education is the narrow ridge of maintaining a standard of academic excellence while simultaneously increasing equity in access. As we expand the access of gifted programming to be more equitable, we must provide our diverse students with opportunities to learn that better prepare them for the increasing intellectual demand. In this session we will discuss practical methods and strategies for supporting students as they tackle challenges and curriculum of increasing intellectual demand.
Dr. Jann Leppien is the Margo Long Endowed Chair in Gifted Education and Professor in the Graduate Studies in Education at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. Whitworth’s Center for Gifted Education supports and develops policies and practices that encourage the diverse expressions of gifts and talents in children and youth from all cultures, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and socioeconomic groups and offers educators a specialty endorsement and master’s degrees in gifted education. Prior to this position, she taught courses at the University of Great Falls in Montana in curriculum and assessment, gifted education, and educational research. Before joining the faculty at the University of Great Falls, she worked as a research assistant for The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) at the University of Connecticut, where she obtained a master’s and Ph.D. in gifted education. She has been a classroom teacher, enrichment specialist, and coordinator of a gifted education program in Montana. She is the co-author of The Multiple Menu Model: A Practical Guide for Developing Differentiated Curriculum, and The Parallel Curriculum: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High-Ability Students and numerous articles in designing high quality curriculum for advanced students. She conducts workshops for teachers in the areas of differentiated instruction, curriculum design and assessment, thinking skills, and gifted program development. She has served on the board of the National Association for Gifted Children and currently serves on the Diversity Committee. She is also a board member of the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students (AEGUS) and serves on the advisory board of the 2e Center for Research and Professional Development located on the campus of Bridges Academy, a school for twice-exceptional students (http://www.bridges.edu). She is also President of Edufest, a summer teaching and learning institute in gifted education held in Boise, Idaho (Dr. Susan Baum
Cognitive Diversity and Gifted Education: The dilemma of the gifted child with a uniquely wired brain.
Unfortunately, the common view of who is gifted and how those students should be served is myopic and limits the ways we identify and nurture giftedness. Through case studies, we will come to understand the gifts and talents of those bright students with ADHD, Dyslexia, ASD. We will explore hurdles to their identification and appropriate program development. Finally, we will see what happens when these youngsters are given opportunities for talent development.
Dr. Joy Lawson Davis
The Promise of Equity for ALL!
During this keynote, speaker will share the global benefits of developing equitable gifted & advanced learner programs for all populations and how these benefits can help shape and reach broader diversity, equity & inclusion goals in all school districts. Keynote message will focus on the importance of setting high expectations for all students, regardless of culture, language, race, and income backgrounds; enabling educators to become better prepared to search for & nurture talent in all communities; and how more equitable programs will improve overall outcomes for public schools across the state, nation and around the world.
Breakout Sessions
Call for breakout proposals coming soon2020 Conference Art Winner
2021 AAGT Annual Awards
Awards will be presented during the Thursday Spotlight Session.