2E @ W&M Online Conference Sponsors
2025 Sponsors
The Sage School of DallasThe Sage School of Dallas will be opening in August 2025 with a mission to foster a dynamic learning environment that empowers intelligent neurodiverse students to realize their full potential by recognizing their unique strengths, nurturing intellectual curiosity, and developing essential skills for a fulfilling and impactful future. With a dedication to academic excellence, social development, and innovative teaching methodologies, we strive to offer personalized academic, social, and emotional support. Our goal is to inspire creativity, cultivate critical thinking, promote authentic leadership, and instill a lifelong passion for learning in students that are 2e. General Website Link: www.sageschooldallas.org |
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The HaystackFinding someone who truly gets you as a 2e adult can feel impossible—like searching for a needle in a haystack. But what if all the “needles” were gathered in one place? That’s exactly why The Haystack exists—a welcoming space where 2e adults connect, learn, and grow together. General Website Link: The Haystack - With Understanding Comes Calm Newsletters: https://www.withunderstandingcomescalm.com/newsletters/ |
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The Gifted & Distractible Course: Clarity, Confidence, and Community for 2e ParentsRaising a twice-exceptional child is a unique journey—one that’s both deeply rewarding and incredibly challenging. If you've ever felt lost in conflicting advice, overwhelmed by advocacy, or just craving support from parents who get it, this course is for you. General Website Link: Gifted & Distractible Course - With Understanding Comes Calm |
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The Center for Gifted Studies - Western Kentucky UniversityLocated on the Western Kentucky University campus in Bowling Green, Kentucky, The Center for Gifted Studies has been serving children who are gifted and talented, their educators, and their families for more than 45 years. The Center provides exciting educational opportunities for gifted young people, rigorous professional development for teachers, and support for families of gifted young people. Under the direction of Dr. Julia Roberts, The Center has become one of the preeminent advocates for gifted education in the United States. The Center believes that when gifted young people meet their extraordinary potential, our communities, our state, our nation—even our world—become better places. That is why each school year, The Center renews its commitment to encouraging excellence by providing quality programming and resources for gifted students, their teachers, and their families. General Website Link: The Center for Gifted Studies | Western Kentucky University |
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Davidson InstituteThe Davidson Institute exists so that every gifted young person can excel in an environment built for their intellect and capabilities. We work every day to ensure families with profoundly gifted youth are met with open doors and open arms—to give them a place where they can be themselves and receive the support they need. By leading the charge to celebrate young people’s intelligence, we are creating a conversation that is critical to fostering support and a nurturing environment for our nation’s brightest minds. We help them shine. General Website Link: Davidson Institute | Programs & Support for the Profoundly Gifted (davidsongifted.org) Davidson Institute's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/davidsoninstitute Guiding Gifted Newsletter: https://guiding.davidsongifted.org/ "5 signs your kid is 'highly gifted,' according to neuroscience experts-'they're not always well-behaved'" : https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/15/signs-your-kid-is-highly-gifted-according-to-neuroscience-experts.html Twice Exceptionality: A resource Guide for Parents: https://www.davidsongifted.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Twice-Exceptionality-A-Resource-Guide-for-Parents-15-June-2018.pdf Guides to 2e students: https://www.davidsongifted.org/resource-library/gifted-resources-guides/guides-to-twice-exceptional-students/ Davidson Gifted Perspectives Video Series: https://www.davidsongifted.org/resource-library/davidson-gifted-perspectives/ YS Homepage: https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-programs/young-scholars/ |
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International Gifted Consortium - IGC
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UCONN - A Taste of Confratute
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Saturday/Summer Enrichment Program @ W&MWilliam & Mary’s SEP is an academically challenging program with an emphasis on inquiry-based learning for students enrolled in grades K– 12. The program is not meant to replace the regular school curriculum; rather, it recognizes the importance of allowing able children to explore additional specialized areas of science, mathematics, humanities, and the arts.
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The Neurodiversity Podcast & Neurodiversity UniversityThe Neurodiversity Podcast & Neurodiversity University are dedicated to creating a neurodiversity-affirming world. The podcast has over 150 episodes and over a million downloads, with episodes related to the development of gifted, twice-exceptional, and other neurodivergent people. The Neurodiversity University houses online courses available for school districts to use as in-house PD or for individual use; Strategies for Supporting Twice-Exceptional Students is a 6-module, 15-hour course and is available now. Future courses for parents and mental health professionals are coming soon! Visit www.neurodiversitypodcast.com to join our newsletter list and keep up to date on all new offerings. Links: Books:
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Renzulli Center at University of Connecticut
The mission of the Renzulli Center is to serve as a center of expertise for talent development. We promote enjoyment, engagement, and enthusiasm for learning in educators and students at all levels through professional learning activities. We conduct and disseminate research on critical questions of practice.
The vision of the Renzulli Center is that educational experiences should be meaningful and accessible for all. The Renzulli Center strives to provide leadership toward this outcome at a local, national, and international level.
A central emphasis of our work is advocating a broadened conception of giftedness, and a focus on the development of potential in groups not ordinarily included in special programs for the gifted and talented. Academically talented or high potential students with disabilities, those who underachieve in school, and those who attend schools in high-poverty districts have been our focus for decades.
Our research suggests that the programs we advocate benefit these and other students. This focus is integrated into all of our programs and services, including our affiliation with graduate programs in the Department of Educational Psychology. These include our campus program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree, our combined online and campus programs designed for students throughout the world resulting in Master's degrees and Sixth Year Certificates, and our fully online Graduate Certificate. Our graduates hold key leadership and research roles throughout the nation and the world.
Belin-Blank Center - University of Iowa
The Belin-Blank Center is a world leader in research, twice-exceptionality, and academic acceleration. We offer professional development, an assessment and counseling clinic, and a graduate certificate in talent development. Our student programs include the Bucksbaum Early Entrance Academy, the Academy for Twice-Exceptionality, and academic-year and summer programs. We are also home to the Acceleration Institute (accelerationinstitute.org).
Website link: belinblank.education.uiowa.edu.
Bridges Education Group & Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education
The Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education offers Ed.D and M.Ed programs in cognitive diversity, and also offers a Certificate program in twice-exceptional education. Bridges Graduate School was founded in 2018 in response to a demand from educators and other professionals for a more formalized course of study about teaching and advocating for 2e students. Bridges Graduate School’s first cohort of students began study in January, 2019. This program encourages students to cultivate the skills, insights, and imagination required of those who will assume leadership roles as instructional leaders, researchers, administrators, and policy makers to promote cognitive diversity at home, school, and in the workplace.
The Bridges Graduate School seeks to inspire and develop innovative leaders of positive change. Drawing from the fields of education and positive psychology, courses explore the intersection of cognitive diversity, talent, interest, and motivation as they relate to gifted, regular, and special education, and to the more complex profiles of 2e students.
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https://bridgeseducationgroup.com/bridges-2e-center-for-research-and-professional-development/
- https://bridgeseducationgroup.com/bridges-2e-media/
Graduate Programs in Gifted Administration
The William & Mary School of Education offers two doctoral programs with concentrations in gifted education, a traditional Ph.D. in Gifted Education Administration and a hybrid Executive Ed.D. in Gifted Administration.
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Professional Development
The National Curriculum Networking Conference (NCNC) offers sessions on curriculum, instruction, assessment, and advocacy for high-ability and gifted learners. NCNC provides networking opportunities; highlights special materials, practices, and curriculum approaches that are responsive to the needs of advanced students.
- NCNC 2024 will be held in person March 20-21, 2024.
Online Professional Development Academy
Our new Online Academy Courses are internet-based and self-paced. Learners are able to track their progress, watch videos, download files, and complete engaging activities. Each training is hosted by Center faculty or staff with extensive experience with gifted and talented/advanced learners in the classroom. Each training gives you all the benefits of a Center for Gifted Education Professional Development for a fraction of the price and from the comfort of your own home. Upon completion of a course, learners may download their certificate of completion.
Self-Paced Courses Open:
- W&M's Jacob's Ladder Series Training (Prufrock Press, now Routledge)
- W&M's Language Arts Units Training (Kendall Hunt)
Prufrock Press - Routledge
For more than 30 years, teachers and parents have looked to Prufrock Press for professional learning resources, gifted child identification instruments, and curriculum designed for gifted students, advanced learners, and twice-exceptional children.
Web: https://www.routledge.com/go/prufrock-press
2E Teacher Education Programs
The Cleveland EDGE- Excellence and Diversity in Gifted Education
CSU Ohio is excited to announce the proposed Twice-Exceptional Teacher Education (2eTE) program!
The Twice-Exceptional Teacher Education Program (2eTE) is a leader in education nationally and internationally, transforming teachers and schools to believe that giftedness can be found in diverse schools, diverse students, and expressed in diverse ways.
The 2eTE focuses on:
- Talent identification and development of students whose talents and gifts could be overlooked because of the impact of disability
- Mediation of the impact of disabilities- Recognition that disabilities cannot be cured or remediated, but the impacts felt can be mediated.
- Integration of special education and gifted education strategies and values
- Accessibility of the program to reach teachers and families across the globe
- Excellence of educational experiences so that students are challenged at appropriate levels and their learning enriched
- Social Justice so that teachers and schools can seek and value talents in diverse schools, diverse students, and the expression of such talents in diverse ways
- Collaboration of families, teachers, psychologists, policymakers and other stakeholders in determining educational experiences for students
- https://levin.csuohio.edu/twice-exceptional-teacher-education-program/2eTE
Elevate Your Impact: Sponsor 2e@William & Mary
Join us in supporting the 2e@William & Mary: Twice Exceptional Online Conference and reach a community of educators and professionals dedicated to understanding and nurturing twice-exceptional learners. Your sponsorship will not only help fund this important event but also provide valuable visibility for your organization within our specialized community.
Sponsorship Levels
Choose the sponsorship level that aligns with your goals and budget.
Base Sponsorship ($300)
- Company/Institution logo with description and link to organization on the Conference Platform
- Registration for one representative to attend the 2-day online conference
Bronze Sponsorship ($500)
- Base Sponsorship benefits, plus:
- Ability to add digital downloads to the Conference Platform
- Company/Institution logo with description and link to organization on the W&M Center for Gifted Education Website for one year
- Inclusion of logo and mention in the Welcome Session each conference day
Silver Sponsorship ($800)
- Bronze Sponsorship benefits, plus:
- ½ page advertisement on the conference program
Gold Sponsorship ($1,200)
- Silver Sponsorship benefits, plus:
- Logo posted at the bottom of all keynote sessions' pages
- 1-page advertisement on the conference program
- Inclusion of a promo video on the conference platform
Platinum Sponsorship ($2,000)
- Gold Sponsorship benefits, plus:
- Recognition on social media channels
- Sponsored Breakout Session
Choose your own Option
- Custom packages and options are available
Why Sponsor 2e@William & Mary?
- Reach your target audience: Connect with educators, psychologists, administrators, parents, and advocates who are passionate about twice-exceptional learners.
- Enhance your brand reputation: Associate your organization with a prestigious institution like William & Mary and a cutting-edge educational conference.
In addition to the benefits listed above, sponsors will also enjoy
- Opportunities to network with other sponsors and attendees
Ready to Partner with Us?
Contact Dr. Ashley Y. Carpenter at aycarpenter@wm.edu to secure your spot.
