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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, November 4, 2026
  • 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    Registration
  • Thursday, November 5, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM CT
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Building Thinkers: Interactive Engineering Design for K–8 Classrooms (Preregistration Required)
  • 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Designing and Leading Culturally Responsive MTSS for Gifted Learners: From Lesson Design to System-Level Change with AI Integration (Preregistration Required)
  • 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Get In the Game (Preregistration Required) Required)
  • 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Teaching Strategies and Frameworks for Advanced and Gifted Learners You Can Use Today! (Preregistration Required)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT
    Network Leaders Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT
    State Affiliate Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CT
    Leadership Development Session (Invitation Only)
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    Catch Up With Your Community Networking Session
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    First-Timers Orientation
  • 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Opening Keynote Session: “Who Did This for You?" Reframing Educator Beliefs and Resetting Access to Gifted Education
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    NAGC26 Exhibit Hall Grand Opening & Celebration
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Art of Noticing: Cross-Field Traits That Define Advanced Visual Learners
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Building a Framework for Supporting SEL that Honors Gifted Black Student Identity
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Creatively Gifted + Visual-Spatial Learners = Best of Both Worlds
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Is AI a Cognitive Partner for Gifted Students in Turkey?
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Light the Spark; Build the Bridge: Engaging Gifted Students in Challenging Tasks
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Making Meaning: What Matters Most to Gifted Readers
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Native American Students in Talent Development Summer Camps. A Four-Year Sentiment Analysis
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Poster Sessions
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Purposeful Grouping & Talent Spotting in MLL Math Potential
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Rethinking Giftedness: Identity, Belonging, and Twice-Exceptional Students
  • 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Write the Future: Blending Creativity and Research to Support Gifted Writers
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    Network Evening Events
  • Friday, November 6, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Registration
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CT
    GCQ Editorial Board Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Access and Representation in Gifted Education: A National Empirical Study
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Building Bridges for Gifted Learners: Leadership Models for District-Parent Partnerships
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtables
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Do Strong K–8 Advanced Education Policies Open Up a More Diverse Pipeline in High School?
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Experiences of New and Returning Students in Multicultural Talent Development Summer Camps
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtables
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Preparing Future Thinkers: Cultivating Curiosity, Creativity, and Connection
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Grounded Minds: Nature, Regulation, and Gifted Engagement
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Making Cluster Grouping Work: Systems, Supports, and Sustainability
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Bridging the Divide: Digital Acceleration and Equity in Remote Indigenous Communities
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Brilliance is Bilingual
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Developing Educator Allyship for Gifted, LGBTQ+ Youth
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Preparing Artistically Gifted Students for the Future: Postsecondary Education and Careers
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Three Non-Negotiables for Schools Promoting Talent Development
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Creative play unplugged: Off-screen solving for gifted learners
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    From Theory to Practice: Scaling Naglieri General Ability Tests (NGAT) in Denver Schools
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Overexcitability Reconsidered: Domestication of a Developmental Theory
  • 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM CT
    Lunch on Your Own (Concessions Available in Exhibit Hall)
  • 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Network Meetings
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Designing for Depth: Challenging Readers to Think Deeper
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Failing Forward: Teaching Gifted Kids How to Crash Safely
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Talent Spotting Every Day: Using Teacher Noticing to Uncover Potential in Diverse Classrooms
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Unlocking Thinking: Escape Rooms & Puzzles for Creative Problem Solvers
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Featured Session: Creating a Culture for High Expectations and Rigor
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Featured Session: Student Centered For Student Success
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    NAGC Talks: Literacy Lightning Round: What Educators of Gifted Children Need to Know
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    NAGC Talks: Try This Tomorrow: Supporting Twice-Exceptional Learners
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Signature Session: Looking Back, Planning Ahead: 50+ Years of Gifted Education in Wisconsin
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Signature Session: Recognizing Black Excellence, Rewriting Narratives: Insight from Jenkins Scholars, 2014-Present
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Signature Session: Reimagining Gifted Education Through Cultural Ways of Knowing
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Signature Session: The Future of Advanced Education and Talent Development: A Panel Discussion
  • 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Dedicated Exhibit Hall Time
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Get to Know Your Networks & SIGS
  • 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    NAGC Business Meeting
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    NAGC Party
  • Saturday, November 7, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtables
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Exploring Depth: Differentiating Upward for Advanced Learners
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Hope, What We Lost, and How to Get Found: Interactive SEL Activities for Gifted Learners
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Integrating Talent Spotting and Talent Development Into Your Curriculum
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtables
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    The ABCs of 2e and Neurotypical Learners: Academic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Profiles
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Parent Day
  • 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM CT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Challenge, Autonomy, and Identity: Why Curriculum Decisions Shape Gifted Learners’ Futures
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Out of Sync and On Point: Decoding the Hidden Maps of Gifted Learners
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    From Crisis to Calm: De-escalation Strategies for the 2e Learner
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    From Data to Design: Aligning Gifted Identification with Services
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Getting Them Writing: Supporting Twice Exceptional Students and Other Reluctant Writers
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Identification and Universal Screening: Research, Examples, Equity, and Collaboration
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Creating Collaborative Classrooms Where Students Think, Belong, and Build Together
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Using AI Strategically to Enrich Depth and Complexity and Foster Equitable Outcomes
  • 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM CT
    Lunch on Your Own (Concessions Available in Exhibit Hall)
  • 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Network Meetings
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Activate the Superpowers: Unfurling the Wings of Neurodivergent Brilliance
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Between the Lines: Poetry as a Pathway to Wonder for Gifted Learners
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Combining the 4 Cs: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Dr. Martin D. Jenkins Scholars Presentation
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    From More to More Rigorous: Transforming Curriculum with Elements of Reasoning
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Going from “Scream Time” to Screen Time: Healthy Relationships with Screens and Social Media
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    New Resources from the NRCAE
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Gifted Identification and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Bad Day Syndrome
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    La Excelencia Latina Award Ceremony
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Mission Impossible? Mission Accepted! Securing Buy-In with Administrators
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Rigor without Emotional Safety is Fragile
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Boxed In: Using Creative Constraints to Spark Wonder in Gifted Learners
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Four Types of Local Norms - Building, Group, Dynamic, Static: Which Strategy to Use?
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Gifted for Good: Empowering Learners to Make an Impact on their Community
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Legacy Archives Presentation
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Lesson Roundtables
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Productive Struggle for Gifted Students: Growing Talent in the General Education Classroom
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
    Celebration of Excellence
  • Sunday, November 8, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    NAGC Help Desk
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    ¡Sí Se Puede! Understand, Recruit, and Retain Gifted Latino Students
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Broadening Our View: Learning from Research Outside Our Field
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Forty Years and Still Going: A Proven Gifted Education Model for the Real World
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    From Crisis to Connection: Supporting the 2e Learner
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    It's Universal: Shared Trends, Challenges, and Celebrations Across the Globe in Gifted Education
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Side-by-Side Success: Leveraging Push-In & Co-Teaching to Build Teacher Capacity
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Spotting Creative Potential: How to Recognize Creativity Before It Shows Up on a Test
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Thinking First: Using Depth & Complexity to Unlock Gifted Potential in Diverse Learners
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    Big Thinking for Little Learners: Adapting Thinking Routines for Primary Students
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    From Conflict to Connection: Restorative Approaches for Gifted Classrooms
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    Gifted Joy is an Act of Resistance
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    More than Math: An Introduction to Building Thinking Classrooms
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    Promising Practices in Gifted Arts Education: Innovation and Groundbreaking Contributions
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    R&E Research-To-Practice Lightning Talks
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    Speed Geeking: The 300-Second Idea Sprint
  • 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    Using the NAGC Professional Standards to Evaluate and Revitalize Gifted Programming
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Closing Keynote: Don’t Fight Back, Fight Forward: Seeing the Potential Others Overlook