4. FALL
2018
TOUR
10/11 - West Virginia Association for the Gifted and Talented
10/15-16 - Ohio Association for Gifted Children
10/19-20 - Gifted Association of Missouri
10/ 27 - The Grayson School CogniCon
11/3 - Orange County Council for the Gifted
11/6 - CITES Learning Edge Conference
11/9 - Maine Educators of the Gifted and Talented
11/15-18 - NAGC Annual Convention
11/30 - Rutgers Gifted Education Conference
12/12 - Bucks County Intermediate Unit
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5. ALABAMA HAWAII MASSACHUSETTS NEW MEXICO SOUTH DAKOTA
ALASKA IDAHO MICHIGAN NEW YORK TENNESSEE
ARIZONA ILLINOIS MINNESOTA NORTH CAROLINA TEXAS
ARKANSAS INDIANA MISSISSIPPI NORTH DAKOTA UTAH
CALIFORNIA IOWA MISSOURI OHIO VERMONT
COLORADO KANSAS MONTANA OKLAHOMA VIRGINIA
CONNECTICUT KENTUCKY NEBRASKA OREGON WASHINGTON
DELAWARE LOUISIANA NEVADA PENNSYLVANIA WEST VIRGINIA
FLORIDA MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE RHODE ISLAND WISCONSIN
GEORGIA MARYLAND NEW JERSEY SOUTH CAROLINA WYOMING
34. The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
38. Let’s find out what
you already know.
So I can give you
more of the same
thing.
39. Let’s find out what
you already know.
So I can give you
something new
and different.
40. THE NATIONAL
RESEARCH CENTER
ON THE GIFTED
AND TALENTED
The University of Connecticut
The University of Georgia
The University of Virginia
Yale University
The University of Georgia
Why Not Let High Ability Students
Start School in January?
The Curriculum Compacting Study
Sally M. Reis
Karen L. Westberg
Jonna Kulikowich
Florence Caillard
Thomas Hébert
Jonathan Plucker
Jeanne H. Purcell
John B. Rogers
Julianne M. Smist
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
July 1993
Research Monograph 93106
NRC
G/T
Why Not Let High
Ability Students
Start School in
January?
The Curriculum Compacting Study
54. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.
55. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.
61. •Limited familiarity with the
research on acceleration
•Philosophy that children must be
kept with their age group
•Belief that acceleration hurries
children out of childhood
•Fear that acceleration hurts
children socially
•Political concerns about equity
•Worry that other students will be
offended if one child is accelerated.
2004
65. TYPE III
INDEPENDENT OR SMALL GROUP INVESTIGATIONS
PRODUCTS AND/OR PERFORMANCES
TYPE I
GENERAL
EXPLORATORY
ACTIVITIES
TYPE II
METHODOLOGICAL
TRAINING /
HOW-TO ACTIVITIES
(Renzulli, 1977)
100. FAILURE
isn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull
101. Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
103. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION
I, ______________________________
GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO:
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
106. LEARN TO FREE YOURSELF FROM THE
EXPECTATIONS OF OTHERS AND TO WALK AWAY
FROM THE GAMES THEY IMPOSE ON YOU.
107. NO ONE - not Walt, not Steve, not the people of Pixar -
ever achieved creative success by clinging to what used to work.
108.
109. PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done.
Time’s up on standard operating procedures.
______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
110. PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done.
Time’s up on standard operating procedures.
______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
111. PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done.
Time’s up on standard operating procedures.
______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
112. PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done.
Time’s up on standard operating procedures.
______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
113. PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change.
Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
114. PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change.
Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
115. PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change.
Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
116. PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change.
Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
117. PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done.
Time’s up on standard operating procedures.
______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
118. PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change.
Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)