KAGE AnnualConference

2012

february 6 - 7, 2012marriott griffin gatelexington, kentucky

32 years of promoting gifted

education in Kentucky

• Keynote Speakers u JONATHAN PLUCKER, Ph.D., Director of the

Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University

u MARCIA GENTRY, Ph.D., Director, Gifted Education Resource Institute, Purdue University

• Sessions on Curriculum Differentiation, Social Emotional Needs of the Gifted, RtI,

and more!• Administrators Institute• Creativity Night• Parent Night• Exhibits• Concurrent Sessions• and more

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Kentucky Association for Gifted Educationkage@wku.edu • www.kagegifted.org • 270.745.4301

Conference Registration

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TUESDAY • FEBRUARY 7 • WHAT’S HAPPENING

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EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION is about more than getting every student to proficiency. It’s about making connections for students with a personally rigorous curriculum that affords them continuous progress. It’s about recognizing gifted students from diverse backgrounds and ensuring that they, too, are receiving gifted services and a curriculum suited to their needs. The 32nd Kentucky Association for Gifted Education’s Annual Conference provides proven effective instructional strategies, best practices, and new information to be used by educators to better meet the unique learning needs of gifted children. Join us for two full days of sessions where you can enhance your professional expertise in order to empower excellence in all gifted children.

• REGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST• GENERAL SESSION - s Keynote: Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D., The Kentucky Excellence Gap s KAGE Service and Advocacy Awards Recognition• EXHIBITS• BREAKOUT SESSIONS (pages 3-4)• ADMINISTRATORS INSTITUTE (page 5)• CREATIVITY NIGHT - (page 4)• AN EVENING FOR PARENTS - (page 5) with Marcia Gentry, Ph.D., Tips for Parenting Gifted Children and Resources to Help Guide Them

• REGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST• KAGE BUSINESS MEETING• GENERAL SESSION: s Keynote by Marcia Gentry, Ph.D., Student-Identified Exemplary Teachers: Insights from Talented Teachers s NAGC/KAGE Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award Recognition • EXHIBITS• CONCURRENT SESSIONS (page 6)

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LET’S BE RATIONAL: INVESTIGATING THE COMMON CORE ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR FRACTIONS IN GRADES 3 - 6 - The Common Core Academic Standards list fractions concepts as one of the 3 – 4 critical areas in each of grades 3 – 6. However, even our most gifted students frequently do not have a solid understanding of these es-sential topics. Research has shown that even middle and high school students cannot order 5 – 6 fractions from least to greatest, estimate the sum of two proper fractions, or describe a situation involving division of fractions. Join us in this active session to explore a variety of hands-on and computer-based activities designed to give students a deep, endur-ing understanding of the grades 3 – 6 fraction standards from the CCAS. Several activities will be taken from units from the elementary Javits-funded Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds and the new middle grades program Math Innovations. LINDA SHEFFIELD, Ph.D., is Regents Professor Emerita, NKU, Department of Mathematics. She has written numerous books and articles for both teachers and students and has conducted seminars for teachers across the United States and other countries. Dr. Sheffield is past-president of the School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA) and was chair of the Task Force on Promising Students for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). She was also editor of the NCTM book, “Developing Mathematically Promising Students.”

TOTAL SCHOOL CLUSTER GROUPING: A RESEARCH-BASED MODEL FOR IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, IDENTIFICATION EQUITY, AND TEACHER PRACTICES - Total School Cluster Grouping (TSCG) is an effective, research-based programming model for use in elementary schools. By focusing on differentia-tion and flexible grouping, it provides full-time services to gifted students and benefits all students and teachers in the school. Research on TSCG has shown that student achievement increases, teachers widely implement gifted educa-tion strategies with all students, more students are identified as high-achieving, and fewer students are identified as low-achieving. Participants will learn why and how to successfully implement TSCG and leave with site-specific tools to increase the achievement and motivation of all learners, while providing the academic challenge and individual responsiveness essential to gifted learners. MARCIA GENTRY, Ph.D., is Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute and Professor of Educational Studies at Purdue University. (See page 6 for Dr. Gentry’s bio.)

ALL HANDS ON DECK: USING TECHNOLOGY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE GIFTED - This technology-based workshop will offer program-by-program introduction, step-by-step procedures, and participant hand-holding. New ideas on how to use Microsoft Office and “cloud” software/storage for gifted learners will be explored. Leave the workshop with real products plus a disc with all of the resources and how-to videos for the training. Bring your creative side and be ready to laugh, grimace, and celebrate your technology accomplishments! (Participants need to bring their own laptops.) TRACY FORD INMAN is Associate Director of The Center for Gifted Studies, WKU. She is Chair of the Advisory Board of “Parenting for High Potential,” co-editor of “Parenting Gifted Children,” and co-author of “Assessing Differentiated Students Products,” and “Strategies for Differentiating Instruction,” and on the KAGE Board. ROB PAUGH is Technology Integration Specialist, Bowling Green Independent Schools. He has worked in education for over 20 years and is a frequent presenter on integrating technology into the classroom.

IDENTIFICATION - Formal Identification of Gifted & Talented students in all five areas has shown to be a difficult task across the state. In this session, participants will discuss difficulties, review strategies and suggestions, and share ideas for identifying students. LEAH ELLIS is a Gifted/Talented Teacher with Fayette County Schools and a KAGE Board member.

7:00 am, Registration Desk Opens7:00 am, Continental Breakfast8:00 - 9:15 am, General Session • KAGE Service and Advocacy Awards • Keynote by Jonathn A. Plucker, Ph.D., The Kentucky Excellence Gap8:00 am - 3:30 pm, Administrators Institute8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Visit the Exhibits9:30 am - 12:00 pm, Morning Breakout Sessions12:00 - 1:00 pm, Lunch1:00 - 3:30 pm, Afternoon Breakout Sessions6:30 - 8:30 pm, Creativity Night7:00 - 8:30 pm, An Evening for Parents

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Jonathan A. Plucker, Ph.D., is professor of educational psychology and cognitive science at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy. He is a past-chair of the Research and Evaluation Division of NAGC, and he currently serves as president for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts division of the American Psychological Association.

Plucker has published more than 100 articles, chapters, and book reviews, and he has served on the editorial boards of Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Research on Science Teaching, and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. He has received numerous awards for his research on giftedness, talent, and creativity, including the NAGC Early Scholar Award, the NAGC Paul Torrance Award, and the APA Division 10 Berlyne Award.

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ADVANCED MIDDLE GRADES MATHEMATICS AND THE COMMON CORE ACADEMIC STANDARDS: ACCELERATION IS NOT THE ONLY ANSWER - Middle grades are a critical time for capturing the interest and imagination and developing the potential of mathematically promising students. We cannot afford to have our best students accelerate into a rigid pre-algebra/algebra track in sixth or seventh grade and miss many of the es-sential Common Core Standards. In this session, we will look at some of the issues and recommendations from the NCTM/NAGC/NMSA book, The Peak in the Middle: Developing Mathematically Gifted Students in the Middle Grades, and investigate suggestions for deepening and compacting the curriculum while meeting the Common Core Aca-demic Standards in mathematics by implementing the CCAS Standards for Mathematical Practices. Participants will explore activities from the Math Innovations program, a comprehensive series developed using Focal Points and cor-related with Common Core Standards. It encourages students to think like mathematicians with a focus on reason-ing, sense-making, questioning and discourse. It was designed to help students become enthusiastic and engaged in mathematics, develop their mathematical talent, and enable them to make continuous progress throughout their academic careers. LINDA JENSEN SHEFFIELD, Ph.D. STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING CREATIVE EXCELLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM - The ability to be creative, that is to solve problems in unique and effective ways, is widely considered to be a critical 21st century skill. Yet teacher preparation programs rarely cover creativity, and most state accountability and testing systems give little if any credit for creativity. During this workshop, we will examine a framework for enhancing creativity in most educational settings, participate in several creativity activities, and share strategies for helping our students enhance their creativity. JONATHAN A. PLUCKER, Ph.D.

DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION FOR GIFTED LEARNERS - We all know how important it is to match learning experiences to the learner and to provide appropriate levels of challenge. What we don’t know is how to do that! This workshop provides differentiation strategies for educators new to differentiation or new to teaching. Preassessment and differentiation strategies will be shared via examples, student samples, and practice. Learn how to tweak current lessons to make them differentiated ones. Leave with ideas and tools ready to implement in your classrooms. TRACY FORD INMAN

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF GIFTED CHILDREN: HOW TEACHERS AND COUNSEL-ORS CAN FOSTER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT - This session will begin with an overview of the social and emotional development of gifted children with an emphasis on what has been learned from research. Gifted chil-dren generally develop in an asynchronous or uneven pattern, with, for example, intellectual development typically outpacing emotional growth. This asynchrony and other characteristics, such as overexcitabilities and perfectionism, can lead to difficulties in a gifted individual’s adjustment. The impact of this asynchrony and other potential prob-lems are explored, along with the stress and adversity that some gifted individuals face. More importantly, the pre-senters will focus on strategies to manage stress and perfectionist tendencies by channeling these in positive ways. Monitoring self-talk, managing depression, and developing resilience are discussed. The presenters will share strate-gies that teachers and counselors can implement to foster exploration of giftedness and the social and emotional aspects of growing up gifted. EDWARD R. AMEND, Psy.D., is a Clinical Psychologist at Amend Psychological Services, P.S.C. He focuses on the social, emotional, and educational needs of gifted and talented youth, adults, and their families. Dr. Amend is co-author of two award-winning books: A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children; and Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders. AGNES MEYO, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist who specializes in working with gifted children and their families, and is Co-President of the St. Louis Association for Gifted Education, President of the Gifted Resource Council, and Co-leader of the Twice-Exceptional Parent Sup-port Group in MO.

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reativity nightPlease join us Monday evening from 6:30 - 8:30 pm for a fun evening where creativity rules! Highly creative Pendleton County G/T students under the direction of Michelle Lustenburg will present creative activities for your enjoyment and for you to take back to your classroom. The students have selected activities that they have experienced and especially enjoyed. Please come for a great evening, door prizes, and to support these young creative minds.

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 • ADMINISTRATORS INSTITUTE • PARENT NIGHT

Motivation, responsibility, choosing wisely, passion, pursuit of excellence, following a dream, making a difference

… guiding gifted children can be challenging and overwhelming. Dr. Gentry will share successful tips for

parenting and guiding gifted children together with some of

Monday, 7:00-8:30 pm

THERE IS NO CHARGE.

Bring a friend!

with Marcia Gentry, Ph.D. (See Dr. Gentry’s bio on page 6.)

KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED EDUCATION

ADMINISTRATORS INSTITUTE 2012

A session designed to provide parents with information and ideas to use in

parenting their gifted children.

An Evening for Parents

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 Lexington, KY

Marriott Griffin Gate

Tips for Parenting Gifted Children and Resources to

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PURPOSE: To provide data and information on the excellence gap in the advanced achievement of underrepresented groups (i.e., low income students, minorities, English Language Learners) relative to their peers and to explore the research, policies, and programs that recognize and develop talents among all advanced students and, thereby, promote excellence.

If gifted students from all levels of society are to be nurtured to reach their full potential, then key decision-makers must make informed decisions based on research and best practices in gifted education and not on myths. All children, including gifted children, need help, encouragement, and appropriate learning expe-riences from caring adults in order to make the most of who they are.

SESSIONS INCLUDE:• How Can We Use Policy to Promote Educational Excellence? JONATHAN PLUCKER, Ph.D.• Policy Discussion: What Do the Questions Reveal? JULIA LINK ROBERTS, Ed.D, AND JAN LANHAM, Ph.D.• Recognizing and Developing Talent Among Underserved Populations and in Non-Traditional Areas MARCIA GENTRY, Ph.D., Director, Gifted Education Resource Institute, Purdue University • Standards, Assessment, Reform: Research/Reality* - JAN LANHAM, Ph.D.

INTENDED FOR: Superintendents, Principals, Assistant Principals, and All Educators Who are Key Decision-Makers in Schools, Districts, and Organizations

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KEYNOTE: The Kentucky Excellence Gap - DR. JONATHAN PLUCKER, Director of the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University - Equity and excellence in education are often treated as competing goals that to achieve one we must neglect the other. But educa-tion systems that fail to harness the potential of students from every background can make claims to neither quality nor equal-ity. During this keynote, we will examine recent research on the performance of high potential students in the U.S. and Kentucky, discuss the implications of these results, and consider strategies for reversing some of the negative trends.

Whenever discussing education policy at any level, two questions should always be asked:

1) How will this [decision] affect our brightest students?2) How will this [decision] help other students begin to achieve at high levels? *

* Mind the (Other) Gap! The Growing Excellence Gap in K-12 Education, (2010). Johnathan A. Plucker, Ph.D., Nathan Burroughs, Ph.D., and Ruiting Song

HOTEL INFORMATIONThe KAGE Conference Rate at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort is $116.00 (plus tax) for a single or a double. THE CUT-OFF DATE FOR THE CONFERENCE RATE IS JANUARY 22, 2012. MAKE THE CALL EARLY TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM!Contact the hotel directly and be sure to let them know you are eligible for the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education conference rate. By booking within the KAGE block of

rooms you are also helping to lower the costs of the banquet pricing and meeting rooms making it pos-sible for KAGE to present a better conference for everyone. If you have difficulty booking a room, please contact the KAGE office. Marriott Griffin Gate Phone: 800.266.9432 Attn: Reservations Manager Direct: 859.231.5100 1800 Newtown Pike Lexington, KY 40511

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Concurrent Session Descriptions (one hour sessions). Please go to the KAGE webpage at www.kagegifted.org/conf2012 for the session descriptions. More will be added as they become available.

7:00 am, Registration Desk Opens7:30 am, Continental Breakfast 7:30 am, KAGE Business Meeting 8:00 - 9:15 am, General Session • NAGC/KAGE Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award • Keynote Address: Marcia Gentry, Ph.D., Lessons Learned from Gifted Students’ Life Stories 9:15 - 9:30 am, Time with Vendors9:30 - 3:10 pm, Concurrent Sessions8:00 am - 2:00 pm, Visit the ExhibitsLunch on your own

• Gifted Programming Standards: Use Them to Assess Student Outcomes - Julia Link Roberts, Ed.D., (The Center for Gifted Studies, WKU)• Helping Gifted and Talented Students Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Digital Highway - Kimberly Code, Ph.D, NKU, (Teacher Education and School Leadership)• Designing Instruction for Advanced Learners in the Middle Grades: Skills, Synthesis, and Symbolism in

Social Studies - Susan Ryan, (G/T Coordinator, Elizabethtown Independent Schools)• Why Won’t Some Gifted Children Do Homework? What Can I Do About It? - Agnes Meyo, Ph.D., (Co-President of the St. Louis Association for Gifted Education)• Using the Creative Constructs of the Torrance® Tests of Creative Thinking to Stimulate Creativity in

Common Core State Standards - John D. Kauffman, Ph.D., (Scholastic Testing Service, Inc.)• But I’m Not an Artist! - Gina Wilmuth, (Calloway County Schools)• NASA Astrobiology-DNA of Strawberries; an Ideal Lesson for the Enrichment of Gifted Learners - Denise

Ann Zigler, (NASA Solar System Educator, TN, MNPS Gifted Teacher)• Socratic Inquiry: Acquiring 21st Century Skills from a 4th Century B.C.E. Strategy - Richard D.

Courtright, (Duke University Talent Identification Program)• Shaping Up with the Common Core Standards and Project M2: Mentoring Young Mathematicians (Grades

K – 2) - Linda Jensen Sheffield, Ph.D., (Consultant) and Jane Paulin, (Consultant & G/T Teacher, Ludlow Independent Schools)

• Algebraic Reasoning vs. Algebra I: Mastering the Common Core Standards in Algebra that Precede Algebra I (Grades 3 – 8) - Linda Jensen Sheffield, Ph.D., (Consultant) and Jane Paulin, (Consultant & G/T Teacher, Ludlow Independent Schools)

• Preparing the Gifted Student for College - Peggy Workman, (Kentucky Dept. of Education) • Powerful Strategies to Enhance the Learning of Your Gifted and Highly Capable Students - Nathan Levy,

(Nathan Levy Books, LLC)• Sessions on RtI, Curriculum Differentiation, and more!

Marcia Gentry, Ph.D., is the director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute and Professor of Educational Studies at Purdue University. Her research has focused on the use of cluster grouping and differentiation; the application of gifted education pedagogy to improve teaching and learning; student perceptions of school; and on non-traditional

services and underserved populations. Dr. Gentry developed the Total School Cluster Grouping Model and is engaged in continued research on its effects concerning student achievement and identification and on teacher practices. She chairs the AERA SIG, Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, actively participates in NAGC, and frequently contributes to the gifted education literature.

MONDAY SESSIONS Mark your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for morning, AND 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices for afternoon. See pages 3 and 4 for session descriptions. Half-Day Workshops - Morning Half-Day Workshops - Afternoon __Session M1: Sheffield, Let’s Be Rational... __Session M5: Sheffield, Advanced Middle Grades... __Session M2: Gentry, Total School Cluster Grouping __Session M6: Plucker, Strategies for Promoting... __Session M3: Inman & Paugh, All Hands on Deck... __Session M7: Inman, Differentiating Instruction __Session M4: Ellis, Identification __Session M8: Amend & Meyo, Social/Emotional Development...

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KAGE 32nd Annual Conference February 6 - 7, 2012 Lexington, Kentucky

• Please enclose a check or P.O. number for your TOTAL registration. • IF YOU ARE NOT SURE YOUR KAGE MEMBERSHIP IS CURRENT, PLEASE CONTACT THE KAGE OFFICE.• *Please contact the KAGE office if you have any special needs - dietary or otherwise.

NO REFUNDS - SUBSTITUTES WILL BE ACCEPTED. Confirmation letters are mailed to registrants. If you have not received a confirmation letter before you leave for conference, please contact the KAGE office! We regret there can be no refunds in the event of inclement weather. KAGE reserves the right to amend or cancel events on the published program. All events and speakers are correct at time of publication. The organizers will use reasonable efforts to ensure the program goes ahead as scheduled. Any changes will be posted on the conference website (www.wku.edu/kage/conf2012) as soon as they are known.

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Please include payment or a purchase order number. If payment is for more than one person, each person should complete a separate registration form.

Send Application along with Payment/Purchase Order to:KAGE * P. O. Box 9610 * Bowling Green, KY * 42102-9610 * FAX: 270.745.6279

TOTAL Conference: (Monday and Tuesday) (includes continental breakfast both days and lunch Monday*) __ $230 current KAGE member __ $260 not a member (complimentary membership included) or renewing now

MONDAY ONLY (includes continental breakfast and lunch) __ $130 current KAGE member __ $160 not a member (complimentary membership included) or renewing now

__ $80 ADMINISTRATORS DAY ONLY

TUESDAY ONLY (includes continental breakfast*) __ $115 current KAGE member __ $145 not a member (complimentary membership included) or renewing now

PLEASE CONTACT KAGE AT 270.745.4301, OR KAGE@WKU.EDU IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. Check our website at www.kagegifted.org/conf2012 for Conference 2012 updates!

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32nd Annual ConferenceFebruary 6 - 7, 2012

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