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Friends,

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) has changed the topic for the April 21st webinar.听 NEW TOPIC! SENGinar - Opportunities to Serve Twice-Exceptional Students鈥� Strengths through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

The presenter is Terry Friedrichs, Ph. D., Ed. D.听 He has assessed, instructed, researched, and professionally and legislatively advocated for gifted students with attentional, learning, emotional, and sensory disabilities for 40 years.听

SENG members receive a discount on registration for webinars.听 Registration is on the SENG website:

Judy Smith

Friends:

Below is a list of learning games funded by grants from the Federal Government that are free until the end of the school year.



Have your kids give them a try and let me know what you think. Kid reviews would be greatly appreciated (and further your LA instruction too).

Margaret

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Friends,

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is offering a webinar on Tuesday April 21st.听 The topic for this webinar is Teen Nurturing of 2e Children鈥檚 Artistic Strengths.听
The session relates to several topics within the SENG mission: 1) gifted teens growing socially by helping younger gifted peers with disabilities, 2) these teens growing intellectually by figuring out how to teach a subject matter (in this case, art) to these younger students, and 3) these youth assisting the community of learning by doing this instruction in a local public school in which the children did not have much access to arts education.

The presenter is Terry Friedrichs, Ph. D., Ed. D.听 He has assessed, instructed, researched, and professionally and legislatively advocated for gifted students with attentional, learning, emotional, and sensory disabilities for 40 years. He has also done consulting with gifted high school youth for 30 years as they strive to be of service to their communities.

More information about this webinar and previous webinars is available at the SENG website:听

SENG members receive a discount on webinar registration.

Judy Smith

Friends,

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is offering a Free webinar on Monday April 20.听 The topic is: Gifted School-At-Home During COVID19: Using a Trauma Informed Approach to Support the Social-Emotional Needs of Your Children.听 This webinar is presented by Alessa Giampaolo Keener, M.Ed.听 She is an educator with 20 years of experience working with special student populations.

Alessa Giampaolo Keener will present the basic principles of trauma-informed learning, as it applies to school-at-home and homeschooling during COVID19; address the social-emotional needs of three different categories of gifted families; and offer tips and reassurance on how parents and teachers can support a gifted child鈥檚 learning needs during a time of crisis.

Registration is available at this website:

听*THIS EVENT WILL ALSO BE LIVE STREAMED ON SENG'S FACEBOOK ACCOUNT AT

Friends:

FACT is offering a free webinar on Special Education and the IEP on April 13, from 12:00 to 1:30.
Register online at:



Margaret

Friends:

The Center for Talented Youth has asked that I circulate this update.听 Their online progam is very well-established.

Margaret

As the Center for Talented Youth, in close coordination with Johns Hopkins University leadership, continues to actively monitor the COVID-19 pandemic, we are particularly focused on the health and well-being of our community. We are following guidance from the best and most current public health information, as well as the university鈥檚 experts in infectious disease, epidemiology, and emergency preparedness. Based on the information we have today, and with the health and safety of our students and staff in mind, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Session 1 of our 2020 Summer Programs, along with all courses at our Hong Kong sites.听

We know the decision to cancel our Session 1 and Hong Kong-based courses may be disappointing to your students颅and we at CTY will greatly miss welcoming them to our sites for this session. It is something we plan for all year, and seeing these remarkable students grow, discover, and engage with one another is one of the greatest and most rewarding expressions of our mission. We are confident, however, that this decision is in the best interests of our CTY community.听

We have shared with families via email options for Session 1 refunds. Specific information for Session 1 families with financial aid awards was also communicated via email. Our can be found online, as well.

At this time, we are still cautiously planning to operate our Session 2 courses, the earliest of which begin on July 12. As the situation continues to evolve, we will update Summer Programs families颅and you颅as we have new information. You can refer to our at any time.听

We are still actively working to find ways to serve students, even if we cannot do so at summer sites. Our excellent are increasing capacity to serve families facing long-term school closures. We鈥檙e also exploring new, virtual ways to support families coping with this unprecedented situation. Please stay tuned for more information as those offerings are developed and don鈥檛 hesitate to reach out to us at ctyinfo@... should you need anything.

We appreciate your continued support of CTY. Please take good care of yourselves, your families, and neighbors as we navigate this situation together.

Sincerely,

Luke Kasim

Director of Recruitment

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Friends,

A recording of this SENGinar has been uploaded to the SENG's Vimeo Channel and is available for viewing at this link:

The presenter is Dr. Joanne Foster and the slides in the webinar include many resources that you can link to for additional information.听

About The Presenter:
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Joanne Foster, Ed.D. is a child development expert who has worked in the field of gifted education for over 30 years. She has a Master鈥檚 degree in Special Education and Adaptive Instruction, and a Doctoral degree in Human Development and Applied Psychology. Her writing reflects her extensive and robust experience鈥攁s a parent, teacher, consultant, university instructor, and community advocate. Her newest book is ABCs of Raising Smarter Kids: Hundreds of Ways to Inspire Your Child (2019 Award Finalist, American Best Books). Dr. Foster also wrote Not Now, Maybe Later: Helping Children Overcome Procrastination, and Bust Your BUTS: Tips for Teens Who Procrastinate (recipient of the Independent Book Publishers Association鈥檚 2018 Silver Benjamin Franklin Award). She is co-author, with Dona Matthews, of Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids, and the multi award-winning book Being Smart about Gifted Education. Dr. Foster鈥檚 articles are featured in publications around the world, including online in her column at The Creativity Post, and she shares material on learning issues for First Time Parent Magazine. Dr. Foster taught Educational Psychology as well as Gifted Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, where she also served as the gifted liaison for many years. She continues to provide leadership in areas of giftedness and high-level development, working with parents, teachers, and other professionals across North America, and beyond.

Judy Smith

Friends:

The NAGC has created a new "tip sheet" on supporting gifted children during COVID-19.

You can find it at

bit.ly/3dSbDEp

Margaret

Friends:

Here are some additional national math/science learning links. The first two links are for large collections of YouTube videos that students can watch by themselves (although I recommend parental supervision). The third is to Science Friday's Citizen Science Month. This describes and links to many real science projects such as observing light pollution or reporting on water quality that have been set up so families can contribute to the research. Some have been turned into games.


"3blue1brown," by Grant Sanderson, is a set of YouTube videos that uses animations and entertainment to explain complex math concepts/fields such as exponential growth, neural networks, differential equations and topology.


"Numberphile": by Brady Haran: another set of YouTube videos, featuring interviews with working mathematicians about math discoveries old and new.


"Citizen Science Month" (April) on Science Friday:

including the Citizen Science Project Starter:

Real science research--many from home--that families or classrooms can particpate in.

Margaret

Friends:

Please share this with your families and schools and let us know how we can help!听

Below is the TAG section from the Department of Education's guidance document on distance learning.听 The OATAG website has some home learning resources in English and Spanish at Talented and Gifted (TAG) Guidance

"Districts should serve students identified as TAG by accommodating assessed levels of learning and accelerated rates of learning. With a distance learning model, two strategies that will enhance and extend the learning experience for TAG students, include:
Educational acceleration, which has long been used to match high-level students抔eneral abilities and specific talents with optimal learning opportunities; and
Curriculum compacting, which condenses, modifies, or streamlines curriculum to reduce repetition of previously mastered material."

Friends,

OMSI Science Pub 鈥� Virtual Edition - March 31, 2020 - Dynamic Geoloogical
History of the Columbia Gorge: Tale of Two Floods with Scott Burns, PhD,
Professor of Geology at Portland State University

OMSI is providing access to their science pub at 6:30 PM tonight through
their Facebook Page. You do not need a Facebook Account to
participate. It is open to all ages. Each event will begin with our 10
question trivia game. Grab a pencil and paper and compete against your
family! We will also host Q&A after the lecture. In order to ask a
question, all you have to do is comment on Facebook.

In order to join the Facebook Live event, visit OMSI's main Facebook
page at 6:20PM on Tuesday March 31, to find the live feed. Click here
<>to visit OMSI's page

If you miss it, it will be available later on their YouTube Channel.

Friends:

Bright and Quirky is offering another "summit" this week. Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus are presenting "Digital Sanity Summit: Navigating Technology in the Modern World of Parenting."
The summit runs for free, starting today through April 3rd.

Friends:

Below is an excerpt from Nicholas Kristof's column from today's New York Times. It returns to a family in Yamhill County, where he grew up. Kristof believes that "modest interventions" might have saved the children in this family but when he lists possible interventions it simply doesn't occur to him that doing a better job of gifted eduation in rural Oregon communities might also have made a difference. This was a child who could have gone to college with a full ride scholarship instead of to prison if he had had more support from his school district ----before-- he dropped out.


Margaret


Who Killed Keylan Knapp?

My childhood friend has joined America抯 揹eaths of despair.�
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Keylan was very bright, and he was promoted three grades in math class at Yamhill Grade School, so that as a fifth grader he studied math with the eighth graders, his feet swinging without reaching the floor, and he still outperformed most of the older children.

Yet he dropped out of high school, like all the Knapp kids, and they then all struggled in a changing job market. Good union jobs like their dad抯 were disappearing, and each of the children self-medicated with drugs and alcohol.

The State of Oregon spent hundreds of thousands of dollars prosecuting and incarcerating Keylan (and later his only son as well), but I wonder if modest interventions might have put him on a sounder path: early childhood education, counseling, job training, drug treatment...."

Comparison Charts for Online Classes from the Davidson Gifted Database. Some programs have specific start and end dates; some of these 搒et� courses, though, have classes starting several times throughout the year. Additionally, there are some programs that have open enrollment.

Online Math Program Comparison

Online Language Arts Program Comparison

Online Science Program Comparison

Online Foreign Language Program Comparison

Online Social Science/Humanities Program Comparison

Friends:

To add to the 2020 Summit presentations on our website, Bright and Quirky is offering a free replay of their webinar on heping families cope with the COVID-19 pandemic

What You Will Learn:

• How to deal with anxiety, stress and worry in both kids and parents
• How to create daily family structure, especially if you're working from home
• How to make the most of temporary homeschooling for bright and quirky kids
• How to approach potential regression in therapies or academics
• How to develop strengths and interests, family connection and life skills

Friends:

I am pleased to inform you that OATAG has purchased a license to share the Bright and Quirky 2020 Summit with our members.听 Access to this collection usually costs $197 (currently discounted to $147) but OATAG members can view it for free.

The 2020 Summit brings together 23 top psychologists, advocates and educators with over 10 hours of insights and strategies in downloadable video, audio, and transcripts. To see what is included in the 2020 Summit click PLEASE NOTE

OATAG members are receiving an invitation from the following address:

no-reply@...

The subject line of the message will say

听"Welcome to www.oatag.org
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If you are an OATAG member and you haven't yet seen this invitation, please be sure to check your SPAM folder.

Here are the instructions:

听To accept this invitation, you will need to set a password and then log into the "members only" section of the OATAG website.

(If you have already created a "member" password you can go directly to the "members only" area on the OATAG website at www.oatag.org听 and log in there
听as a member)

Once you have landed on the "members" page you will find a different log in and password that will admit you to the Bright and Quirky site. When you get there you will see a set of boxes for Bright and Quirky events.听 We have only purchased access to the 2020 Summit.听

If you have any problems please contact OATAG IT Services,听 service@...

Margaret DeLacy, OATAG President

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Friends,

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is offering a webinar on Thursday April 2nd.听 This webinar is free and the topic is: Parenting During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Curiosity, Creativity, and Concerns. Presenter Joanne Foster, Ed.D. is a child development expert who has worked in the field of gifted education for over 30 years. She has a Master鈥檚 degree in Special Education and Adaptive Instruction, and a Doctoral degree in Human Development and Applied Psychology.

Registration is here:听

Judy Smith

World HIstory Commons is a free, digital Open Educational Resource (OAR) with high quality, peer-reviewed content in world and global history for teachers, scholars, and students from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Content includes website reviews, primary sources, and teaching and methods guides.The project is intended to support university-level teaching and learning. The section labelled "Reviews" is a curated list of high-quality world history websites, for topics from the ancient world to the present.

The list of websites provides a wonderful distance learning resource but I strongly advise parental supervision. This site was designed for university students and includes some disturbing topics.

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Friends,

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is offering a webinar on April 7, 2020.听 The topic is:听 Gifted Adults and Conflict: How to Defuse Drama.听 Presenter Kate Arms, J.D., CPCC, PCC, is a leadership and life coach at Signal Fire Coaching, writer, and teacher.听 The presentation will include key elements of handling hard conversations, recovering when things don't go well, and approaches to new conflict-management skills.

To register for this webinar or previous topics see the SENG website:听

Judy Smith

Dear Friends:

Oregon Spellers, a program of OATAG, regrets to announce that it will not be holding the OREGON STATEWIDE SPELLING CHAMPIONSHIP at the State Fair on September 5th as planned, due to the Covid 19 outbreak. Oregon Spellers does, however, plan to hold the "just for fun" Bee at the Fair on September 5th, providing the State Fair is scheduled according to plan.

Kaynor Heineck