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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, November 7, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CT
    Gifted Child Today Editorial Board Meeting (Invitation Only)
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Beyond the Label: Navigating the Language of Neurodiversity in 2e Advocacy
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Build It. Pitch It. Perform It. Creative Problem Solving at the Intersection of STEM + the Arts
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Complexity, Courage, & Cognition: A Deep Dive into Social-Emotional Learning for the Gifted
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 11: From Review to Results: Using Data to Enhance Gifted Programs
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 12: Elevating Instruction using the NAGC Standards
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 13: Unlocking Gifted Potential: Leveraging MTSS for Research-Based Intervention and Support
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 14: Empowering Families: Introducing the Bloom-Banks Matrix for Families of Color
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 15: Feeling Seen and Stretched: Using Alumni Voice to Evaluate and Improve Gifted Programming
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 16: The Power of We: Building a Gifted Program Plan Through Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 17: Differentiation That Reaches the Desk: A System-wide PD Roll Out
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 18: Power in Partnerships: Connecting School Districts and Community Resources to Elevate Gifted Programming
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 19: Building Shared Tier 1 SEL Practices Through Gifted Teacher Leadership
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Coordinator Roundtable 20: Promoting Equitable Access to Above-Level Math Courses in Middle Schools
  • 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
    Gifted LGBTQ+ Gayming: Using Games to Nurture Gifted SEL & LGBTQ Identity With Affinity Groups
  • 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 Roundtable 34: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtables
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Navigating Uncertainty: Sustainability and the Future of Gifted Education
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Parents' Experiences: Social-Emotional Development of Highly/Profoundly Gifted Children
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Perceived Stigma of Giftedness: School Experiences of Gifted Adolescents and Their Peers
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Plot Twists, Mentor Texts, and Aha! Moments: Fun Ways to Grow Gifted Writers
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    So You Want to Be a Leader in Gifted Education?
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    The ABCs of 2e and Neurotypical Learners: Academic, Behavioral, and Cognitive Profiles
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Unscripted By Design: Reclaim Rigor
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 18: Square Puzzlers
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 19: The Testimonio Self-Portrait: Amplifying Identity and Resilience in the Advanced Multilingual Classroom
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 21: Music with S.T.E.A.M.
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 22: Constructing the Shadow: Developing Originality, Flexibility, and Elaboration Through Figural Divergence
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 23: Weekly Academic and Well-Being Check-In for Gifted Students
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 24: Igniting Visual-Spatial Talent: Using Tangrams to Discover and Develop Potential
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 25: Letters, Light, and Leadership: Energy Ambassadors in Action
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 26: Interest-Based Learning: Beyond the Buzz
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 27: Increase Your Distress Tolerance: Flip Balls, Sour Warhead Candies, and Biodots!
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 28: Food Truck Functions
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 29: Launching Differentiated Research Project with Primary and Secondary Sources from Milwaukee Artist Mary Nohl
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 30: World of 8 Billion Project Based Learning
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 31: Exploring Sensory Adaptation and the Brain Using Inverted Goggles
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 32: Beyond the Worksheet: Designing Experiential Learning for Gifted Thinkers
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Lesson Roundtable - Lesson Roundtable 33: Beyond Credible or Not: Teaching Advanced Learners to Evaluate Evidence
  • 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
    An AI Skeptic and Enthusiast Take on AI Coding and Projects: Apps, Websites, and Games
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Beyond Gifted Pull-Out: Engineering a High-Impact, Multi-Age Ecosystem in a Rural District
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Beyond the Deficit Lens: Reimagining Interventions for the Gifted-ADHD Learner
  • 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
    Curiosity to Creation Teaching Elementary Gifted Students to Ask Higher-Order Questions
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Hidden Currents, Global Agency: Using Historical Inquiry to Build Architects of Change
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    High Ability, High Complexity: Differentiating Giftedness, ADHD, Autism, and ODD
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Leaving Brilliance on the Table: Strategies to Prevent and Reverse Gifted Underachievement
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Out of Sync and On Point: Decoding the Hidden Maps of Gifted Learners
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    PBL as a Pathway to Talent Development & Equity in General Ed Classrooms
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    The Power of Manipulatives to Spark Imagination, Creativity, and Democratic Problem Solving
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    The Power of Purpose: An Instructional Framework for Talent Development
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Think… and Think Again: Using Puzzles and Cognitive Engagement Strategies to Deepen Learning
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Using Vibe Coding to Foster and Assess Mathematical Creativity in Gifted Grade 7
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    When the News Hits: Supporting 2e Trans and Non-binary Students When the World Feels Loud
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Who Is Seen as Artistically Gifted? Educator Perceptions of Artistic Talent in U.S. Schools
  • 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM CT
    Change my Mind? The Research Game Show that just might Teach You Something
  • 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM CT
    Lead From Within: Empowering Gifted Middle & High School Students to Lead Themselves
  • 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM CT
    Panning for Gold: Widening Access, Equity, and Opportunity for Gifted Students of Color
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Compliance and Challenge: Enhancing Mandated Literacy Curricula for Advanced Learners
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Curriculum with Impact: Curriculum Unit and Teacher Differentiation Awards Workshop
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Differentiating for Challenge: What Do Pre-Service Teachers Think and Do?
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Effectively Respond To Gifted Gen Z's Traits, Concerns and Needs
  • 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
    Gifted Identification: Why It Sometimes Fails (and Why That Matters in Your Classroom)
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Identification and Universal Screening: Research, Examples, Equity, and Collaboration
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Making Space for Possibility: Designing for Creativity in Talent Development
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Milwaukee Minute Makeovers: Moving from Routine to Rigorous
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Mix It Up! Instructional Strategies That Spark Curiosity in Young Learners
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Reframing Parent Language: Supporting the Inner World of Gifted Children
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Rigorous PBL for Gifted Students: Fusing Productive Failure with Creativity
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Strategic Online Learning for Gifted Students: Acceleration, Enrichment, and Connection
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    The Algorithmic Lens: Explicitly Teaching the Mathematics of Strategy Games
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    The Swiss Cheese System: Closing the Holes in Supports for Twice-Exceptional Students
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    A Community of Voices: The Gifted Student Board as a Catalyst for Self-Advocacy
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Baum Theory of Green: A Framework for Understanding & Nurturing Twice-Exceptional Learners.
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Building Portfolios to Catch "Missed" Gifted Potential of Underrepresented Students
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Building Teacher Capacity To Design Enriched Learning For Gifted Students
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Creating Collaborative Classrooms Where Students Think, Belong, and Build Together
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Empowering Students as Learning Managers: Building Agency and Executive Functioning Skills
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Local Norms - But Didn't Want To Ask!
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    From Talents to SEL: Taylor’s Emerging Talents and Whole-Learner Development
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    From the Borderlands to MIT: Building an Early College Pipeline for STEM Talent
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Genius in Every Language: High-Impact Strategies for Gifted Multilingual Learners
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Gifted Middle School Patterns: Helping Families and Schools Plan for Success Together
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Identifying Giftedness in Montessori Early Childhood Settings (Observation-Based)
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Keep It Moving: Hands-On Acceleration & Curriculum Compacting for Middle & High School
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Scaling Math Talent: Compacting, Extending, Accelerating, Oh My!
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Stranger Thinks: Turning High Interest Hooks into Deep, Expert Level Learning
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Think. Act. Solve: Turning Gifted Learners into Scientists, Attorneys, and Analysts
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Transforming recordings of classroom discussions into pedagogical recommendations
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Using AI Strategically to Enrich Depth and Complexity and Foster Equitable Outcomes
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    When School Isn’t Working: Educational Alternatives for Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Youth
  • 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
    Be Gay Do Crime: Queer Joy and Gifted Representations in Pop Culture
  • 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
    Beyond the Textbook: Using Primary Sources to Foster Critical Thinking in Gifted Education
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Combining the 4 Cs: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Creating Empowerment Curriculum
  • 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
    From Scrolling to Scholarly: Teaching Students to Think Critically in Online Discussions
  • 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
    Innovative by Design: Specialty Centers that Grow Talent and Belonging
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    New Resources from the NRCAE
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Paths to Peacemaker: Guiding Teens Toward Confident Leadership
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Rounding Up: An RtI Model to Support Gifted, High-Achieving, and Often Overlooked Students
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Student Podcasting: Inquiry, Interviewing, and Authentic Storytelling
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Using Graphic Organizers to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    When Bright Minds Get Stuck: SEL Strategies That Unlock 2e and Underachieving Gifted Students
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    “Honors” in Honors Courses? Differentiation, Rigor & Fidelity to Support Advanced Learning
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Beyond the D-Word: Supporting General Educators to Differentiate for Gifted Students
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Construct Validity and Equity: Results of the Naglieri General Ability Tests National Study
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Excellence Without Burnout: Practical Ways to Support Perfectionistic Gifted/2e Learners
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    From Jazz to GenAI: Teaching Creative Collaboration with AI
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    From Wonder to Investigation: Scaffolding Research for Young Gifted Learners
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Future-Ready Minds: A K-12 Framework for Gifted Education in the Age of AI
  • 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
    Igniting Advanced Learners' Abilities
  • 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
    Professional Learning for Teachers of Gifted Students Based on the Corporate University
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Recent Research on Equity in Gifted Identification and Implications for Practice
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Rigor without Emotional Safety is Fragile
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Stories of Gifted/Twice-Exceptional Parenting & the Neuroscience of Creating Connection
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    The High Cost of the Achievement Narrative: Balancing Excellence and Well-Being
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Using Model United Nations to develop Global Awareness in Talented Youth
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    You Can’t Build Main Character Energy with NPC Tasks: Design Moves to Activate Gifted Thinking
  • 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
    Designing Learning Environments to Challenge Advanced Young Students Intellectually
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Equity for Multilingual Learners via Professional Learning: Teacher-Led, Teacher-Valued
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Fostering Executive Functioning as a Community Practice in Gifted Classrooms
  • 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
    Make Sophisticated Thinking Unavoidable: Designing Language Arts Tasks for Gifted Learners
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Productive Struggle for Gifted Students: Growing Talent in the General Education Classroom
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Reframing Teacher Language: Supporting the Inner World of Gifted Learners
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Strategies for Creating Transparent Assessments in the Secondary STEM Classroom
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Unlocking STEM Potential: Depth and Complexity Strategies for Project-Based Learning
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    When Does Being Perfect Matter? Almost Never: Helping Kids Let Go of Perfectionism
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
    Celebration of Excellence