2021 Conferences
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Save the date for the Center's exciting professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators of gifted and advanced students!
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2021 Conferences
Save the dates for the following 2021 conferences!
2e at William & Mary: Twice Exceptional Conference
February 12th-13th, 2020
This year we are moving online. The conference focuses on twice-exceptional (high-ability with learning differences or neurodiverse) children both at home and school. The goal of the conference is to provide information, resources, support, and community building opportunities to educators, administrators, parents, practitioners, counselors, and district personnel.
Session topics will include:
- Gifted education and talent development strategies
- Disability profiles (ADHD, OCD, ASD, LD . . .)
- Individual Education Plan (IEP) & 504
- Social emotional wellbeing
- Curriculum & instruction
- Gifted & special education policy
- Whole child wellness
- Therapies
- Advocacy
- Practitioners
… for twice-exceptional learners!
National Curriculum Network Conference
March 11th-12th, 2021
The NCNC conference is BACK and online. This online event will occur March 11-12, 2021. Join us for the return of NCNC next spring. The conference offers sessions on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and advocacy for high-ability learners. NCNC provides networking opportunities; highlights special materials, practices, and curriculum approaches that are responsive to the needs of advanced students.
ucation and offers intensive training in a particular area of curriculum development and implementation.
Advanced Placement Summer Institute ONLINE
Week 1: June 29 - July 2, 2021
Week 2: July 6-9, 2021
Week 3: July 20-23, 2021
Week 4: July 27-30, 2021
The Advanced Placement Summer Institute Online is designed to help new, beginning, and future AP teachers plan and implement more effective AP programs in their schools. The Institute workshops share with teachers the curriculum content and teaching methods of AP courses and explore the content, structure, and grading of the AP exams. In addition, the workshops afford teachers the opportunity to interact with colleagues and to discuss issues and concerns surrounding the AP courses they will teach.
For more information about these conferences and other professional development opportunities please contact cfgepd@wm.edu.
