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Arts
1.2 Lets Dance to All that Jazz! Developing Artistic and Social Intelligence with Partner Dancing
1.3 A Comprehensive Arts Program
1.4 Approaching Diversity Through Drama
2.1 Creative Writing in the 21st Century - Thinking about the Future
2.4 No Sewing Required: Quilts in the Fabric of Curriculum
3.1 Soul Behind the Skill, HeART behind the Technique: Experiences of Flow among Talented Singaporean Teenagers
3.2 Translating Prose for the Stage
4.1 Podcasts and Presentations Using Digital Media
All The World's A Stage! Incorporating Theatre Arts Into Your K-5 ELA Classroom!
Art Business Meeting/Work Session
Art History, Appreciation and Interpretation through Puppets, Song Writing, and Movement
Artistic Ways of Knowing: Arts Talent Identification
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Creative minds
Engaging the Imagination of K-5 Gifted Students Through The Arts
Improving the Blank Page: From Inspiration to Revision in Creative Writing
Jazzin' it Up: Integrating Literature, Social Studies and the Arts to teach about the 1920's
Louisiana's Talented Arts Program
Making the Arts Come Alive: Incorporating the Arts across the Curriculum
Singing about Gifted Student Success: Collaborating with the Lyric Opera of Chicago
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The Development of Identification Measures for Artistically Gifted Students from Low Income Families
Unfolding Wings: The Role of the Arts in Growing Up Gifted (Part 2)
Viola Spolin Theater Games
Visual Arts Talent Development in Magnet High School Gifted Students
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Computers and Technology
2.2 Rampaging Robots: Results of an intervention study of spatial ability and LEGO robotics
4.2 Gifted 2.0
4.3 Technology for Teachers and Parents to Enhance 21st Century Skills
4.4 Learn to Diigo: Teachers as Researchers and Collaborators
5.2 An international perspective on what we know about new technology integration with differentiated instruction
5.3 Virtual Learning Environments and Gifted Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
5.4 Using technology and creativity to differentiate for the talented foreign language learner
Baby, You Can Drive My C.A.R.S.: Differentiating Instruction with the Collaborative Active Reading Strategy
Beyond the Page: Teaching Talented Readers 2.0
Bridging the Digital Divide: How to Encourage High-Ability Girls to Pursue Advanced Coursework in Technology
Computers and Technology Business Meeting/Work Session
Developing Visual Thinking with Information Graphics
Developing your Personalized, Professional Learning Network (P2LN) through Technology
Differentiating for the Gifted using Interactive Knowledge Organizers
Entering the Ecosystem: The Thoughtful Integration of iPad Apps into Your Gifted Classroom
Heat Up Reflection With Technology! Engaging Students in Differentiated Reflection Through HOTS and Web 2.0
Improving 21st Century Information Fluency Skills
Jamming with Problem-Based Learning and Technology
Keeping Up With Digital Natives!
Kicking It Up a Notch: Using Online Research Modules in the 21st Century Gifted Classroom
Maximum Impact: Using Webinars Effectively
Patterns of Technology Use Among Gifted Students: Implications for M-Learning
Playing with the future: developing gifts through computer game creation
Research on technology use in gifted education - What should teachers know ?
Speed Geeking
Student Created Movies: Advancing Potential and Passions with MovieMaker and iMovie
Tech Tool Time: Jazzing up Lessons for 21st Century Learners
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The Google Geek Squad: Rockin' in the FREE World
The Instructional Design Process of Creating Effective and Engaging Online Learning Modules
The Sky's the Limit!
Using Skype in the Gifted Classroom
1050 The Digital Natives Are Restless: Web 2.0 Tools to the Rescue!
1390 Ideas Worth Spreading: Using TED Talks to Create Socratic Seminars
1400 Integration of iPads and iPods
290 Using Technology to Enhance and Differentiate Student Projects
300 From Overwhelmed to Organized: Technology as a Friend vs. Foe
690 Students as Researchers:Creating a Digital Archive
810 How and Why to Use Social Networks in Your Classroom
900 Teaching Technology through Interest Projects
VC-3 If this is the 21st Century, where is my JETPACK?
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Conceptual Foundations
"Everything Old is New Again": The Historical Dimensions of Differentiation
2-Nurturing the Gifted and Talented: The Hanoi Tower Model of Excellence
2-Reframing Gifted Advocacy
6.1 How Much Is A GT Student Worth?
6.2 A Historical Perspective of a 33-Year Program for Gifted and Talented Students
6.3 How do preservice teachers conceptualize giftedness? A metaphor analysis
6.4 Uniqueness and Purpose in Gifted Education and Beyond
7.1 The paradoxical effects of praise, criticism, and no-feedback for underachieving gifted children
7-Frenemies: The Fit Between Gifted Education and Special Education
7-Policy Perspectives on Gifted Identification
A Conceptual Model for Optimal Development of Gifted Students
Can Gifted Education Avoid Contributing to Social Inequality?
Changing mindsets: Gifted students and project-based inquiry
Conceptual Foundations Business Meeting/Work Session
Defining the Gifted Self: Improvisational Performance as a Way of Life
Epistemological and Disciplinary Considerations in Acceleration: History as an Example
Factoring In Service Learning: Developing Dabrowskian Developmental Potential Through Community Service
Gifted education goes Hollywood: A film-lover's guide to our field's future
Gifted Education Is Fractured, Porous, and Contested: What Should We Do About It?
Reading Virgil Ward: Re-examing Principles of Differentiation
Surviving the deluge: Trying to understand the characteristics individuals who are gifted and talented
The Asynchronous Cheetah: Integrating Metaphor and Definition for Practical Use in the 21st Century
The Legacy Series Taping: The Creative Mind of Don Treffinger
The Roles and Functions of Friendships Among the Gifted and Talented
1060 Using Policy Definitions to Improve Gifted Education
1410 Growing Even Smarter Brains: How Everyone Can Increase His/Her Intelligence
540 Answering the 'Why' and 'How' of Integrating Gifted Programming and Response to Intervention (RTI)
550 Advancing Potential Through Inventive Thinking: Focusing on 21st Century Skills
560 Gifted friendships: Perceived versus actual numbers of friends
570 This isnt Your Grandmothers Classroom: Expanding the Theory of Developmental Differentiation for 21st Century Citizens
680 8-Recognizing and Developing Potential
820 Response to Intervention and Advancing Potential: Promising Practice
910 Intelligences Outside the Normal Curve: Creating Social Capital Leadership Potential In Young People
920 NAGC's Programming Standards: A Guiding Light to Educational Excellence for Gifted Students in Georgia
VC-7 Talkin' 'Bout My Generation: Examining Giftedness from a Generational Perspective
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Counseling and Guidance
7.2 SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) We're Here for You!
7.3 2e: The Paradox of Dual Exceptionality
7.4 High School Gifted: You Don't Have to Reinvent the Wheel
8.1 Phenomenological Exploration of Middle School Gifted Students
A Framework for Affective Growth: Developing Social-Emotional Autonomy
A Gift or Curse: The Challenges of Gifted Black Males
All Gifties Go to Harvard....
All in The Family: The Family System in Counseling the Gifted
Bullying: How it impacts G/T students and how you can root out a major cause
College Counseling for Twice-Exceptional Youth
College major choices of gifted students
Coordinating Services for Gifted Secondary School Students
Counseling and Guidance Business Meeting/Work Session
Gifted Adults: You Don't Just Outgrow It!
Greasy Hair and Pocket Protectors: Profiling Early College Students
Laying waste
Lovingkindness Practice for Managing Intensity and Sensitivity for the Gifted
Minority student attitudes toward AP Courses: Preliminary findings from the AP Challenge Program
More than Thinking: Underachievements Social and Emotional Underpinnings
New Rules for Gifted Girls: Lessons from NSF Gender Equity Projects
Risky Business: Gifted Adolescents Respond
Supporting the Social and Emotional Development of Twice Exceptional Males
Teaching Gifted Students to Use Biographies as Career Mentors: A Road Map to Success
The Academic, Social, and Emotional Implications of Entering College Early: A Case Study
The Gifted Child's Guide to Making True Friends
The Muddled Middle: Gender and Sexuality in Early Adolescents
The Value of the Cohort Supporting Students in Early Admittance to College Programs
1070 Procrastination and High-Ability Learners: If Not Now, When?
1080 Building a Safety Net to Bridge towards 21st Century skills
1340 Meeting the Needs of Twice-Exceptional Students: Techniques from a Researcher and Classroom Teacher.
1420 Developing Optimism in Gifted Adolescents
1490 Developing Future Moral Leaders: Striving for excellence above and beyond academics
340 Setting Motivation Traps with the Autonomous Learner Model for Underachieving Gifted Students in Grades 6-12
580 9.2 Research into Cyberbullying and High Achieving Students
930 Judging By Performance: A Different View of Mindset and The Improvement of Gifted Self Experience
VC-18 21st Century Skills for Gifted Learners: Responsibility, Persistence, Collaboration, and Resilience
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Creativity Division
10.1 Wisdom and Creative Perception
10.2 Impact of Creative Strategies on a Non-native Teachers Identity Constructed by Interaction with Gifted Students
10.3 Nuturing Creativity in Young Children
8.3 What Neuroscience Says about the Creativity Process
8.4 Innovatively Supporting Students with a "Fashionably Right" Mix: Teaching for Creativity with a Unique Curriculum
9.1 Meaningful Economics, a Competition Promoting Individual and Group Creativity
9.3 Students Perception of Classroom Climate for Creativity and Self-Concept
9.4 Creative & Critical Thinking Skills From Our Brains To Yours!
A Comprehensive Model for Evaluating Creative Problem Solving Programs
A new look at divergent thinking test scoring techniques
Adaptation, Culture, and Creativity
Adding Complexity and Depth to Teaching for Creativity
Alive and Kickin: Engaging Students through Arts Integration and Problem Solving
Alternative pathways to talent development A Collaborative Study with an eminent singer/songwriter from the Philippines
Creative Minds
Creativity and focused attention: The yin and yang of our cognitive functioning
Creativity Business Meeting/Work Session
Creativity for 21st Century Skills: How to Embed Creativity Into the Curriculum
Creativity Night: Celebrating Creative Potential Mardi Gras Style
Creativity x 3
Dungeons and Dragons and Gifted Students: Sating Dabrowski's Imaginational Overexcitability Through a Cross-Curricular Approach
Fabulous Failures! Welcoming the 4Cs into the 21 Century Classroom.
Fostering Creativity Through Technology: Critically and Creatively Thinking about Collaborative Communication
Future Problem Solving programs and Creativity: An initial report of a longitudinal study
Give 'em a Break: The Role of Recess in 21st Century Classrooms
Grandfather Tang-A Side of Tangrams
Lil' Wayne, Postmodern Rapper: A Study in Creative Development
Making Creative Assessment an Effective and Exciting Tool in the Middle School Classroom
Not the Same Old Project AGAIN...Let's Add a Creative Flair and Design Something New
Off The Charts Creativity for the Gifted
Take the "A" Train: Jazz Improvisation as an Intellectual Construct and Vehicle for Creative Development
Teachers Jazz Up Creativity in Their Classrooms
The Business of Creativity: Y.E.S. for Arkansas
Tinkering Child, Adult Scientist: Creativity and Integrated Art/Science Curricula
Using the Creative Constructs of the TTCT to Stimulate Creativity in Core Content Lessons
1430 Creativity: It's Not Just For Art Class
1720 Toward a Better Understanding of Creativity and Problem-Solving Styles of Talented Secondary School Students
350 Creativity21 and Beyond!
360 Domain Specificity of Creativity: Dispositional and Environmental Differences Among Scientists, Humanists, and Artists
590 Partners in innovation: Creative and spatial abilities
600 Gifted Authors and Artists Come Alive: The 2011 Torrance Legacy Awards
710 Instructional Applications of Creative Problem Solving Style
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Curriculum Studies
What's the Big Idea? Using Books to Cultivate Talented Readers and Thinkers Across the Curriculum
10.4 Teaching Talented Writers
11.1 Thinking Like a Writer: Creativity, Identity, and New Perspectives on Anne Frank
11.2 Enriching learning experiences to stretch potentials in a Hong Kong classroom: Antarctica Expedition 2011
11.3 Get a G.R.I.P. On Differentiation By Utilizing Interest-Based Projects
11.4 Current Issues related to the Schoolwide Enrichment Model
12.1 I think; therefore, I question: Developing purposeful, engaging questioning strategies
12.2 Vibrant Vocabulary
12.3 Utilizing Shared Inquiry to improve Academic and Social Progress
12.4 Weaving a Vertically and Horizontally Aligned 21st Century Curriculum: Crafting the Warp and the Weft
13.1 Formative Assessment: Practical Strategies for Differentiating Instruction
13.2 Using the Purdue Three-Stage Model to Design Theme-based, Interdisciplinary Curricula
13.3 Harry, Katniss, and Percy: Learning Critical Reading Skills through Popular Literature
13.4 Co-constructing curriculum for greater student engagement
14.1 Engaging Gifted Students in Exploring the Big Ideas of History: Thinking like a Historian
14.2 Conceptions of Giftedness: Examining Varying Theories and Their Application to Evidence-Based, Differentiated Instruction
14.3 Perspective-taking: Exploring students choices of cognitive moves during disagreements among friends
9-Design Thinking for Gifted Students
A Defense of Formal Language Study for Gifted Children
Advancing Potential in Analyzing Non-fiction Books: Focus on the 21st Century Skill of Critical Thinking
All in Good Time: Giftedness and the Use of Collaborative Improvisation in the Classroom
Connecting Gifted Curriculum to Content Standards Using Current Brain Research Approach
Curiosity, Creativity, and Risk-Taking: Can You Dig It?
Curriculum Awards Night
Curriculum Studies Business Meeting/Work Session
Deconstructing Blooms Taxonomy: Letting Go of Bloom
Developing Wisdom Using Understanding by Design: Examples from a Lesson
Differentiation and Technology: An Instructional Match
FILMMAKER, HISTORIAN, ARTIST-- OH MY!
Hu(Mans): A Course of Study—A Legend Returns
Infusing Service Learning into Advanced Curriculum
Integrating Math and Literature for Gifted Middle Grade Learners
It Sounded So Good at Conference: A Journey to Implement Socratic Seminars in Elementary School
Make It "Notebookable"!
Making it Matter: Using Transformational Play to Engage Learners
Missing in Context: The Hole in Vocabulary Curricula
Multicultural Gifted Education: Another Way to Differentiate the Curriculum
Nil Novi Sub Sole: An Old Language for a New World
Portraits of Student Work Produced in an Elementary Mathematics Classroom Using Problem-Based Learning Curricula
Rules, Schmules: How Effective Classroom Management Benefits the Gifted Learner
Stations for High School Gifted Students: Engage, Inform, and Differentiate in a 21st Century Classroom
Teaching in Context - The Key to Improving Academic Outcomes
Team Teaching - Rethinking the role of the gifted specialist
The Bridge Curriculum: A Readiness Curriculum for Gifted Students of Diversity
The Return of a Legend: (Hu)Mans: A Course of Study
Thinking critically about effective curriculum and instruction for mathematically talented elementary students
Upgrading Grading in the Standards Era with Side Benefits for Gifted Students
Using Personality Factors to Support the Social, Emotional & Academic Health of Gifted Children
Using Tiered Centers to Differentiate Instruction in Geometry
Writing a Winning Curriculum: Guidelines for Curriculum Studies Competition
1090 Raising the Bar: English/Language Arts Standards and Gifted Education
1190 Assessing 21st Century Skills and Knowledge through Creative Products
1280 Twelve Stories of Academic Acceleration
1290 The CLEAR Curriculum: What Works in Gifted Education
1590 Blowing the Dust off of History: Bringing Social Studies Alive for All the Senses
1600 From the Lorax to Fahrenheit 451: a Study of Utopian/Dystopian Societies
370 Empowering Gifted Students as Agents of Change
380 Preparing For Tomorrow: Making Students Ready for the 21st Century & Beyond
390 Poetry and Giftedness
610 Making Problem-Based Learning Happen
620 Learning Styles: What We Know, Don't Know, and Need to Know
630 Differentiated Instruction VERSUS Differentiated Curriculum
720 A Community Collaborates: Uniting Students, Teachers, and Community Leaders in Project Based Learning
730 Advancing Potential Through the Use of the Parallel Curriculum Model
740 Inspiring Students to Become 21st Century Independent Problem Seekers
830 RTI with Differentiated Instruction for the Gifted Learner
840 The Parallel of Practice: Designing Real World Learning Opportunities to Enhance 21st Century Skills
VC-1 Artful Curriculum Design: A Practical Path
VC-14 Differentiation and the Brain: Using 21st Century Knowledge to Support Student Growth
VC-15 I Hate School: Addressing Affective Needs In Your Gifted Curriculum
VC-6 To Group or Not to Group: Is That the Question?
VC-8 Challenging Talented Readers With 21st Century Skills
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Early Childhood
14.4 Self-regulated learning abilities, learning styles, and perceived giftedness in Korean children K-6.
15.1 Get Your Hands Dirty! Project Based Learning for Preschool and Primary Gifted Students
15.2 Using a Continuum of Rubric-Based Performance Assessments to Support Young 21st Century Learners.
15.3 Lion's Share of Learning: How Inquiry-Based Instruction Led First Grade Scientists to the National Zoo
Addressing different skill levels and learning types by creating learning centers
Advancing Potential in Information Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills: 21st Century Skills for Conducting Research
Arts in investigative projects: A method to advance thinking and learning in young children
Bright, Young, and At Risk
Building community through the lens of the socio-emotional needs of young gifted children in school
Compost: The Rot Thing for Our Earth
Constructing Rubrics & Criteria Cards for Young Gifted Learners
Developing Thinking Skills in Young Children: Research-based Strategies from Psychology and Neuroscience
Early Childhood Business Meeting/Work Session
Engaging the Young Advanced Reader in Quality Literacy Experiences
He's too naughty to be gifted: Using differential diagnosis to increase identification of young children
If They Can Say Tyrannosaurus Rex, They Can Say Triangular Prism: Nurturing Children's Mathematical Language
Independent Study: 21st C. Skills for the Inquisitive Primary Mind
Primary Thinking Skills for Advancing Potential ... and A Lot More Jazz!
The Teacher as the Creative Thinker- Critical Decisions in Early Childhood Classrooms!
To Infinity and Beyond: Challenging Highly-Able Primary Mathematics Students
Universal Design for Learning: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Twice-Exceptional Early Childhood Students
Why Play?
1300 Paths to a Growth Mindset
1440 Space that Teaches: Why Environment Matters
1730 Play Based Assessment: Identifying Gifted Preschoolers
1760 Common Core Standards: What Does it Mean for Our Young Advanced Readers
750 Build it and they will come: Creating a Program for Primary Gifted Learners
760 Twice-Exceptional Children: Knowing When and How to Intervene Effectively in Early Childhood
850 Rethinking Early Childhood Education: Preparing the Young and Gifted for the 21st Century
860 Engaging Explorations for Young Gifted Children
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Global Awareness
16.1 The Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) Type II Skills: Multicultural Awareness and Creativity Development
16.2 Public Art As Service Learning
Beyond Environmental Education: Ecological Literacy for Gifted Students
Empowering Gifted Students to Help Change the World Through Global Awareness and Understanding
G.A.U.G.E. Global Awareness Utilizing Global Experiences through Service!
Global Awareness Business Meeting/Work Session
Global Gala
If You Want Global Citizens, Teach Global Art: Banking on Banksy and an Educated Mind
Investigating, Informing and Introducing the Stonewall Award Books: Meeting A Global Need
Service Learning: An Experiential Instructional Strategy that Teaches More than Standards
Sharing a World of 7 Billion: Lessons for Global Citizenship
Skyping with Kyrgyzstan: Opportunities in International Education for Student Involvement And Professional Development
SLURPY Saving Lives Using Rocks to Purify Your water
Teaching Tolerance to Tomorrow's Leaders
The Other 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
1610 Connecting Gifted Students to the Global and Local Community
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STEM
1-Delving into Data: Nurturing Our Talented Elementary Mathematicians
1-Going Green with Math Manipulatives
34.2 Identifying Tomorrows Math Superstars -- Testing Math Creativity -- 8 to 12 year olds
34.3 Jump Rope Geometry
35.1 How the parents of Promising ELL students respond to their low math achievement?
35.2 Networked Learning for the Net Generation
35.4 Solving the Equation: Fostering Mathematics Talent among Diverse Populations
36.1 Teaching Computer Science to Gifted Middle School Students with Scratch
36.2 Managing Math Contests in the Regular Classroom
36.3 Ocean Explorations: Hands-on science in the classroom and beyond!
3-Spanky, the Three-Toed Slothematician: Exploring the Common Core Math Standards Through Characters in Children's Literature
40 Years after the Founding of SMPY: What do we Know about Developing Mathematical Talent?
Exploring Shapes through Games: Geometry for Talented Primary Students
Fractions Aren't Trains - They Don't Run On A Schedule, They Happen All Year Long
Future Engineers, Mathematicians, and Scientists: Nurturing Children with Spatial Strengths
Jazzed about Javits -- GEMS Data Showing Impact on Student Learning in Math and Science
Math and Science Business Meeting/Work Session
Middle Grades Mathematics: Plateau, Peak or Passion
Science Olympiad is STEMtastic!
Snapshots of Gifted Science Programs Inspiring and Engaging Elementary Students and Driven by Best Practices
STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math in the Design of a Miniature Golf Course
Strategies for Teaching and Assessing Conceptual Understanding in Science
Using Dynamic Geometry Software to Discover Key Math Concepts
Without Geometry, Life Is Pointless Or Paper Folding and Mathematically Talented Students
1040 Raising the Bar: Challenging Math-Talented Students
1150 Creative Thinking through Classroom Science
1160 Mathematical Modeling in the Elementary and Middle Grades
480 Crashing Through the Glass Ceiling of Middle School Math
660 3-Building Elementary Teachers' Capacity to Teach STEM Content through Problem-based Curricula
890 Three Challenges in Science: Why We Dont Know What We Think We Know
VC-5 STEM Starters Toolbox: Nuts, Bolts, and Tools for Elementary Gifted Teachers
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Middle Grades
16.3 Enlivening Middle School Minds Through the Arts in English and History Class
16.4 Use Debate: Challenge Your Gifted Middle School Learners By Researching, Writing, Collaborating and Thinking
17.2 Diffusin', Oozin' and Schmoozin' - A Differentiated Approach to Microscopy
17.3 Strategies to Motivate and Extend Gifted Language Arts Middle School Students
17.4 A Picture Paints A Thousand Words AND Can Add Creativity to the School Experience!
18.1 Accepting the Challenge: Supporting, Measuring, and Reporting Academic Growth in Advanced Middle School Students
18.2 Differentiating Across the Middle Level Curriculum Using Children's Literature: Graeme Base
A Legacy of Letters: Using Primary Sources for Classical Mentorship
Academic success as an ethnic identity among middle school gifted Korean American students
Are We Teaching Our Best Writers to Write Like Beginners?
Beyond Numbers: Creating Defensible and Differentiated Mathematics Curriculum and Instruction for Gifted Learners
Explicit Programming for Gifted and Talented Culturally Diverse Learners: The Middle School NonVerbal Honors Core
Knowing Your Adolescent Reader: How An Instructional Model Affects The Emotional Lives Of Bright Students
Middle Grades Business Meeting/Work Session
Middle School Readers...What We've Learned
Preassessment: The Linchpin of Defensible Differentiation
Products Create 21st Century Learners
Self-Advocacy: Preparing Gifted Students to be Partners in their Own Education
The Survey Toolkit: Integrated Curriculum Research Survey Projects
Using Childrens Literature to Teach About Wisdom
Using Children's Literature to Teach about Wisdom
Whats New in Young Adult Literature: 2011 Edition
1100 Assessing Higher Order Thinking in 21st Century Middle School Classrooms
1520 I Luv Sh8spr: Teaching 21st Century Skills Through the Timeless Classics of The Bard
1530 Escalating Language Arts/Reading for Talented Middle Grades Readers and Writers
1770 Activities and Assessments for Gifted Middle School Students Using the Common Core Standards
400 O'Henry! Teaching Gifted Adolescents How to Write Using Classic Short Stories
410 Assessing Adolescent Learning in the 21st Century
420 Middle School GPS: Helping Gifted Students Navigate Adolescence
430 17.1 Bibliotherapy:Gifted Middle School Students Developing Understanding of Individual Characteristics
640 Building Resilience in Girls During the Middle Grades
770 STEM in the Middle Grades
780 What REALLY Works in the Middle?
870 Science in Action: Gifted Education and Service-Learning Share Success in Middle School
940 Building strong writers in the middle school: The top twelve lessons you will ever need
950 Educational Initiatives, Curriculum and Gifted Middle School Students
VC-10 Self-Regulation: Critical Skills for Adolescent Gifted Learners
VC-11 Building Momentum in Your School For Gifted Programming
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NAGC
2011 Ann Isaacs Founder''s Memorial Award
2011 Distinguished Scholar Award: Twenty-five Years of Research on the Psychology of Students with Gifts and Talents
2011 Distinguished Service Award
2011 Early Leader Award: In Search of Under-Identified Students: Considering more than culture and poverty!
2011 NAGC/Ball State Administrator Award
A Focus on the Arts: Arts Integration and Arts Programming for Gifted Students
A1. Special Schools for Special Students/Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Administrators' Task Force
Assessments of Giftedness SIG Meeting
Author Apprciation Cocktail Reception
Awards Committee
Board of Directors Meeting
Closing General Session: George Rodrigue
College of William and Mary; Ball State University; Western Kentucky University
Conceptual Foundation Taping
Council of State Directors
Creativity General Session
Critical Questions in Talent Development: Answered through 40 Years of Longitudinal Research by Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY)
Development and Fundraising Committee
Diversity Committee
Education Committee
First-Timers Orientation
Gifted Child Today Advisory Board Meeting
GLBTQ SIG Meeting
Graduate Student Committee
Javit Frasier Scholars
K-12 Programming Standards Workgroup Meeting
Leadership Development Committee
Legislation & Advocacy Committee
NAGC Business Meeting
Network Leadership Retreat
Parent Advisory Committee Meeting
PHP Advisory Board Meeting
Professional Standards Committee
Program Committee
Publications Committee Meeting
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: What Really Constitutes Differentiation for Gifted Learners?
State Affiliate Breakfast
State Directors and NAGC Board of Directors Combined Lunch
THP Committee
Torrance Legacy Committee
Twice Exceptional SIG Meeting
University Network Meeting
1 Bullying of and by Gifted Children and Teens
1270 Connecting for High Potential: How Parents, Teachers and School Counselors Can Work Collaboratively to Reverse Underachievement for Gifted Students.
280 Opening General Session: Bill Nye
500 Stereotypes and the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence
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Parent-Community
Include Students, Parents, and Teachers in the Process for Maximum Results
18.3 Planning the Home Activities for Gifted Students A Case Study: Atalay Family from Turkey
18.4 Democracy in Action: A Community Drop Out Project
19.1 Does Tiger Mom's Effect Exist? Patterns of Parental Authority among Gifted Asian and Caucasian Students
19.2 Keeping Gifted Education Alive: Parents as Advocates
19.3 Parenting the Gifted
19.4 Advancing Support for Gifted Education in Your Community
20.1 Parenting Possibility: How to Help Your Daughter Cope with the Gift of Multipotentiality
20.3 If Shes So Smart, Why Cant She? Looking Beyond the IQ Score
A Delicate Balance: Can Parent Advocacy Work Without Opposition
Accepted On Condition: What Perfectionism Is, And How To Help
Building Bridges of Communication Between School Districts and Parents
Celebrating Intensity, Diversity and Discrepancy
Changing Family Structures: New Roadmap for the Future
Dreaming With Your Eyes Open: Engaging Gifted Parents and Children Outside of the School Day
Facts, Fun, and the Future: Fostering the Gifted Brain
Goldilocks Parenting: Effects of Too Much, Not Enough, and Just the Right Amount of Involvement
Heightened Senses: The Superpowers of the Gifted
Help! I Want to be Creative With my Children But I Don't Know How!
High Achieving Millennial Males and their Fathers
Homeschool Families: A Starting Point
Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Street: Instilling Digital Responsibilities for the Digital Highway
Making the Impossible Possible: Fifteen Strategies for Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience
Parent Day Table Topics
Parent-Community Business Meeting/Work Session
Successfully Parenting Your Gifted Child Using the SENG Formula
Sustaining gifted youth and Their families in the new millenium: Case studies from Australia
Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students: Update, Issues, and Recommendations
1200 The Perfect Storm, When factors converge with bullying to cause tragedy for gifted preteen boys
1360 A 24/7 Problem: An Introduction to Cyberbullying
1470 MIND THE CONNECTIONS: Growth Model, RtI, and Academic Acceleration
1540 mLearning: Personalized Gifted Education in Every Parent's Pocket
1630 Following the Autonomous Learner, a proactive approach to the development of the gifted and talented
440 Technology and 21st Century Parenting
VC-16 Academic acceleration: Resources for identification, policy, and advocacy
VC-2 Kicking Learning Potential Up a Notch: The Effects of Praise
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Professional Development
1-What About Me Can't You Teach?
20.4 Changing Mindsets: Teaching How to Cultivate Intelligence Through an Online Book Study
21.1 Boosting the Cognitive Complexity of Instructional Tasks and Assessments
21.3 The Gifted Education Professional and The 500 Hats
21.4 Professional Development for Improving Creative Teaching skills
22.1 Asset Mapping for Gifted Education
22.2 Response to Instruction (RtI): Helping Classroom Teachers Meet the Needs of Gifted Children
22.3 From Audit to Awesome: A Framework for Developing Quality Programs in NC
22.4 Parents and Professionals Working Together in a Professional Development Model: Theory, Practice and Innovation
23.1 Principals as Stakeholders
23.2 Passion - The Fuel of Achievement
23.3 Addressing the Under-Identification of Gifted Minority Students with School-Based Professional Development for Educators
23.4 PLC Book Studies: TLC for Educators of the Gifted
A 3 Tiered Comprehensive Approach to Providing Online Training and Certification to Gifted Teachers
Art-Inspired Poetry/Songs as Poetry -Analysis, Writing, Creating
Changes in Teachers' Attitudes Toward Teaching Twice Exceptional Learners Through Focused Professional Development
Creating Community and Engagement in Professional Development
Creating Learning States of MInd
Demystifying Understanding by Design and Differentiated Instruction: Providing Thoughtful and Comprehensive Professional Development
Engaging the Insatiable Mind with Inquiry: Matching the Gifted Learner with Depth, Complexity and Choice:
From Candidate to Accomplished: A Gifted Educator's Guide through the National Board Process
Gifted Education and a K-12 Commitment to Delivering Rigorous Educational Programming
How do you motivate gifted learners? Changing underachievement and maladaptive perfectionism into optimal motivation.
Learning to Lead
Mentoring pre-service teachers: approaches, merits, and pitfalls of field experience and student-teaching in gifted classrooms
One Degree from Kevin Bacon: Six Simple Rules My Students Taught Me
Partners in PBL: Harmony is in All Things 21st Century
Pebbles, Rocks, and Boulders: Supporting Change from Direct Instruction to Facilitated Learning
Professional Development Business Meeting/Work Session
Teacher instructional quality in a university-based enrichment program: Lessons learned from the observers perspective
Transforming Top-Down into Grass Roots: Creating Buy-In in Required Professional Development
Using data to design differentiated professional development: A fidelity approach
Using Peer Coaching as a Form of Professional Development: The Catalyst for Change
Using Wikis for Teaching and Learning Beyond Boundaries
Whats the Plan? Designing a Teacher Support System for Developing Model Lessons for Gifted Learners
Zoom-A Perspective of Gifted Education in the Classroom
1110 Exploring Case Studies in Professional Development
1220 2-Effective 21st Century Practices for Underserved Gifted Students
1260 2-An Administrator's Toolbox: Blueprint for Facilitating Faithful Implementation of Curriculum
1570 1-Eight Essentials for Engaging Gifted Learners
1640 CONNECTIONS: Preparing for the Next 25 Years in Gifted Education
1650 Teachers Reflect: How Does Interaction with Exemplary Curriculum Change Teachers Perceptions of Planning and Teaching?
1660 Teacher Training: Effective Methods for Confronting Bullying and Keeping Gifted Students Safe
790 Advancing Potential for Teaching Reading to Gifted Learners
960 Javits Project Version THREE: The Utah High Ability Student Initiative Project!
970 Going to graduate school in gifted education: Choosing a program, surviving, and succeeding
VC-12 Technological Tools to Teach and Practice Differentiating the Curriculum
VC-4 Using the 2010 NAGC Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards in Professional Development
VC-9 A Crash Course in Practical Counseling Strategies for Teachers of the Gifted
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Research and Evaluation
2- Test Speededness - An overlooked threat to reliability and validity
24.1 Building Thoughts and Ideas: Learning with LEGO Serious Play
24.2 Profiles of Mathematics Giftedness: An Examination of Content Mastery, Metacognition, and Accelerated Course Success
24.3 Acceleration Policies & Possibilities in Canada
24.4 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ADOLESCENTS WITH AND WITHOUT TALENT
25.1 Parental Satisfaction with a Gifted Education Program
25.2 Cognitive Abilities and Learning Styles: A Correlation Analysis
25.3 Gender differences in cognitive abilities among the intellectually talented for the last 30 years
25.4 Formative Assessment: Teacher Perceptions and Practices
26.2 The Relationship between Differentiated Instruction and Teacher Control in Gifted Clustered Classrooms
26.3 A Pilot Study of Total School Cluster Grouping in Urban Schools
2-Predictors of attitudes toward gifted programs: Support vs. Perceptions of elitism among pre-service teachers
3-Needs of Parents of Gifted Children: Step One in the Development of a Research Tool
3-Tiger Mother Parenting Is the Best? Investigation of Social Capital Role in Supporting Educational Aspirations
4-Combining scores in multiple criteria assessment: A psychometric investigation
4-Normalizing Data for Gifted Identification
5-Korean Middle School Students Spatial Ability: Investigation of Its Relationship with Mathematics and Science Talent
5-The Identification of Gifted Children in Science and Mathematics: Outcomes from Three Contexts in India
7- Achievement Goal Orientations and Teacher-Rated Engagement in Gifted Elementary School Students
7- How Well Do Teachers and Parents Understand Underachieving Students' Motivation Beliefs?
A National Study of the Perceptions & Attitudes of High School Principals Toward Gifted Education
Academic Effects of Cluster Grouping on Gifted and General Students from Diverse Cultural Groups
An External Evaluation of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model: What do Students and Teachers Think?
Causal Research in Gifted and Talented Education: Regression Discontinuity Design
Comparing Skills and Competencies for Artistically Gifted High School, Undergraduate, and Graduate Alumni
Davidson Fellows: Case Studies in Science Talent Development
Does Birthdate Affect Recognition of Giftedness?
Effect of teacher characteristics on student outcomes in two reading curricular units for gifted students
Effects of Differentiated Reading Instruction on Middle School Student Achievement
High-Achieving African American Male College Students: Reasons for Their Academic and Career Choices in STEM
Introduction and Application of Program Evaluation in the Gifted Education Context
On Becoming Themselves: The 1964-1968 Presidential Scholars 45 Years Later
R&E 2011 Dissertation Award winners present their research
R&E Awards Committee
Research and Evaluation Business Meeting
Research and Evaluation Work Session
Research Crackerbarrel and Research Gala
Schizophrenia and Creativity: A Meta-analytic Review
The "G" Word: Defining or Dubunking Giftedness
The DNA of Moral Compass in Careers of Gifted
The Effects of a STEM Project on Teachers' Science Process Skills and Science Content Knowledge
The Nature of Leadership Practices on Teacher Implementation of a Newly Introduced Gifted Curriculum
The Role of Teacher Mathematical Content Knowledge in Developing Talented Math Students
What Works in Gifted Education: Integrated Reading Curricular Models for Gifted Students
Writing The Lit Review and Discussion in an Empirical Journal Article
1120 Discoveries from the National Twice-Exceptional Needs Assessment
1370 Action Research: Becoming a Teacher Researcher
1670 Assessing the Creative Process: Development and Evaluation of the Creative Process Questionnaire
1750 Is giftedness a qualitative or quantitative construct?
2 Gifted Students' Most Positive Experiences: Applying a Core Virtues Framework from Positive Psychology
650 Serving the Gifted: A National Survey of School Psychologists
980 Elementary Teacher Perceptions and Concerns About Science Teaching and Learning
990 26.1 Myths at Work: Exploring Teachers Perceptions of the Construct of a Child Who is Gifted
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Special Populations
2.3 Every Day, Every Child, High Expectations
26.4 Cinematherapy, Aspergers, and Meeting Social and Emotional Needs for Students and Parents
27.1 Blurred Boundaries: Exploring the Expectations and Aspirations of Gifted Asian Indian Females
27.2 New ways of identifying potential gifted students without any tests
27.3 Promising Practices for Gifted ELLs and High-Potential Students from Low-Income Families
27.4 Helping Gifted Minorities Enhance Creative Abilities through Exposure to Different Cultures
28.1 Gifted Students with Emotional Disabilities: The Neglected Population of Twice-Exceptional Students
28.2 Growing Up with Gifts and Learning Disabilities
28.3 Extracurricular Interests of Gifted Minority Students: Opportunities for Student Engagement and Development
28.4 Linking Rampage Shootings to GT with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders: A Discussion
29.1 Partnerships between Foundations and Summer Programs: Advancing the Potential of Underserved Gifted Students
29.2 One Valedictorians Freshman Year in Engineering School
29.3 The Malleable Mind, the Gifted Learner: Reducing stereotype threat through experimental interventions
29.4 Where do I fit in? : Struggle of African American Males in Gifted Education Programs
Building Black Gifted Students' Self-Esteem & Cultural Legacy through Culturally Relevant Materials
Celebrating Trailblazers for Special Populations: Past, Present, and Future
Creating Positive Personal Growth for Diverse Gifted Learners
Double the Label; Double the Need: Strategies for Twice Exceptional Children Every Educator Should Know
Emancipate Asian American students from stereotypes and misunderstandings
Engineering Design for Elementary Students
Establishing Equity - One School at a Time
From Assessment to Instruction: Application of the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Tests
Gifted on the Autism Spectrum
Gifted, Black, and Female: Blacked-Out, Whited-Out, and Cast Out
Help Build the NAGC Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Questioning (GLBTQ) Special Interest Group!
Honoring Alexinia Baldwin and Mary Frasier: An Anthology of Multicultural Gifted Education
I Do Belong Here: Increasing Minority Student Retention and Success in AP Courses
Proficiency Views of Native Speakers of Spanish: Identifying, Challenging, and Diversifying with AP and IB
Programming for Gifted, Talented and Diverse Learners: Rigor and the Culturally Responsive Classroom
Promise fulfilled or promises broken? Exceptionally Gifted Children grown up.
Scaffolding for Maximum Output for the English Language Learner and Student of Poverty
Special Populations Business Meeting/Work Session
Successful Transition and Integration of Underrepresented Populations into a Gifted Learning Environment: One School's Approach
Systematic Child Find Strategies That Work - Increasing the Identification of Minority Gifted Students
Teach Writing Processes to Build Academic Success
The Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model: Restructuring Gifted Education Services for the Twenty-First Century
To find and to serve: Experiences identifying and serving talented students in a low-income school
Up a Creek Without a Paddle? 2-E Survival Strategies for Stressed-out Parents, Teachers, & Students
Using Academics to Enhance Social Skills Among Twice-Exceptional Learners
U-STARS~PLUS Using Science, Talents and Abilities, Promoting Learning for Under-Represented Students: A Framwork for K-3 Programming
1030 Stuck in the Middle
1140 RtI & Twice Exceptional: A Promising Fit
1560 Moving Beyond Budget: Implementing & Supporting Diverse Programs/Services with Limited Resources. OrWhy Leadership Matters!
800 Developing Leadership in Special Populations in Middle School
VC-17 The Twice-Exceptional Learner: What Have We Learned and What is Next
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Special Schools/Programs
Profoundly gifted students benefit from specialized schools and specialized learning opportunities
30.1 Gifted Science Students' Interpersonal Abilities and Their Home Environment: Comparisons Between Korean and American Students
30.2 Teaching social skills, anger management, and problem solving techniques
30.3 Summer Enrichment for Gifted Learners
30.4 Ways that Gifted Schools Support Social and Emotional Needs
31.1 Hidden Gifts: The Power of Social Context at Residential High Schools for the Gifted
31.2 Radical acceleration: The academic and social effects of grade skipping and early college entrance
31.3 Still just regular teens : The lived experiences of eight early-entrance college students
31.4 Conventional Resources; Unconventional Results
32.2 Connecting Rural Schools for AP Achievement
32.3 Career Internships That Change Students' Lives--How to Start an Internship Program in Your District
32.4 The State of Gifted Education in 21st Century Independent Schools
33.1 The Mentoring Program for Mathematically Gifted Students
33.2 How does Super Summer serve gifted students under the framework of My Class Activities?
33.3 The Identification and Placement of Gifted Students in Korea: In Case of SNUE
33.4 Jazz Up Your Enrichment Program: Easy Steps for Enrichment Cluster Implementation
34.1 Discover GEMS and Go beyond the books - connecting 21st century skills for the Gifted
36.4 The model of Research & Education: The specialized mentoring system in Korean science magnet schools
Action-Based Learning to Develop Your Brain
Bridges Academy for Twice Exceptional Students:Programming for Success
Building an Academic Future on the Pedagogy of a Successful Arts Conservatory
Chart(er)ing a Course to the Future: The Palmetto Scholars Academy
Developing Gifted Services to Address the Whole Child: Lessons from a Rural School District
Ethics for 21st Century Leadership: Preparing Gifted Students through the Global Learning Program
Gifted: Eliminating an Imposed Ceiling
GT@UT: A Summer Program Kickin It Up a Notch
Homeschooling: A unique option and opportunity for Gifted and Talented Students
Introducing and Exploring the Davidson Academy of Nevada: A Public School for Profoundly Gifted Pupils
Preparing gifted students to succeed in specialized STEM high schools
Quest for Knowledge and Competition Experience: Quiz Bowl for 4th and 5th graders
Radical Programming for the Highly Gifted
Reception & Business Meeting
Schoolwide Enrichment Model: Getting Enrichment Clusters to Work for You
The Da Vinci Academy: A Twenty-First Century One-Room Schoolhouse
The Renzulli Academy: Creation Of A School From The Bottom Up And The Outside In
Three New Rs: Research, Rubrics, and Realities in Saturday, Weekend and Summer Programs
1250 If You Build It, They Will Come: How We Started a School for Gifted Children
1380 Igniting 21st Century Skills with Highly Engaging Real-World Projects
470 It Takes a Village to Help Twice Exceptional Children Thrive in School
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Signature Series
Best Practices in Using Standardized Tests to Identify Talent among Low Income and ELL Children
Common Ground for Maximizing High Potential: Psychology, Neuroscience, and Education
Getting Involved: Leadership Development in NAGC
Publish with NAGC
Stereotyped Threat and Identification of Gifted Students of Color: A Conversation with Dr. Joshua Aronson
Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY): How 40 years of longitudinal research and theory development might shape educational policy and human capital initiatives
What if you could design a perfect environment for adolescent talent development? Would it take the form of a special high school?
1000 Advocacy 101: Tips to Keep Gifted Education Alive in Your State and District
1010 Finding Funding for Gifted Programs and Services
1020 The Revised NAGC P-12 Gifted Programming Standards: The Foundation for Quality Gifted Education Services
1130 Successful Strategies for Underserved Gifted Students
1230 Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Consortium: Implications for Gifted Education
1240 The 21st Century Learner: Implications for Gifted Education
1480 Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science
1680 Redefining Giftedness for a New Century: Shifting the Paradigm
1690 The New CogAT: An Ability Test for the 21st Century
450 Are Response to Intervention and Gifted Education Compatible: A dialogue in 4 parts?
460 Calling All Administrator Advocates for the Gifted
VC-13 Our Sputnik Moment
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Thursday Expert Perspectives
Networking Luncheon
State of the Nation in Gifted Education
T18. Get a Life! Differentiation with Biography
T2. Digital Storytelling: Narratives for the 21st Century
100 T1. Thinking in the Future Tense: Creating Positive Futures for Gifted Students
110 T3. Using Technology to Differentiate Learning
120 T4. Extreme Classroom Makeover: The 21st Century Primary Classroom for Gifted Students
130 T5. Invest in America's Future: Maximize the Challenge for Elementary STEM Students
140 T7. Maximizing Outcomes for Twice-Exceptional Children: What Educators Need to Understand and Be Able To Do
150 T8. Developing Leaders for Today's World: Service-Learning for Gifted Students
160 T9. At the Corner of Creativity and Affective Needs
170 T10. Response to Intervention: A Leadership Framework for Identifying Potential
180 T11. Harnessing the Power of Technology to Increase the Potential of Curriculum and Instruction
190 T12. Response to Intervention, Gifted Education, and Twice-Exceptional Students
200 T13. Tools and Strategies for Promoting 21st Century Literacy for Young Gifted Students
210 T14. I Always Knew I Was Smart. What Took Y'all So Long? Our Response to that Question Two Decades Later
220 T15. Educators and Parents as "Counselors": Skills for Meeting Gifted Kids Where They Are
230 T16. Instructional Programming for Special Populations of Gifted Students: Preparing Them for the 21st Century
240 T17. Beyond the Core: Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking into the Curriculum
250 T19. Implementing the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Your School or District
260 T20. Tech THAT: Gifted Children Online
270 T21. Invest in America's Future: Maximize the Challenge for Middle and Secondary STEM Students
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Wednesday Essentials
Essentials of Gifted Education: Designing and Delivering Excellent Programs for High-Ability Learners
Leadership and Life Lessons from the Field
Networking/Table Topic Luncheon
010 W1. Program Models and Program Design in Gifted Education
020 W2. Designing and Choosing Effective Curriculum for Gifted Learners: Key Considerations
030 W3. Creating Classroom Environments to Foster Social and Emotional Development
040 W4. Best Practices in Identification and Assessment
050 W5. Middle Grades Essentials for the 21st Century
060 W6. Instructional Strategies for Differentiation within the Classroom
070 W7. Implications and Uses of the Pre-K-12 Gifted Programming Standards to Identify Gifted Students from Special Populations
080 W8. Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Young Gifted Children
090 W9. Developing a Philosophy of Gifted Education for the 21st Century
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