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NURTURING GIFTED CHILDREN: PARENT SOCIAL Gifted Coaching NW is excited to invite you to our upcoming parent social event, Nurturing Gifted Children: Parent Social. This casual gathering is designed to bring together parents and caregivers of gifted children for meaningful conversations, shared insights, and community building. Whether you’re seeking support, new friendships, or simply a space to connect with other parents, this event is for you! 4 PM - 6 PM APRIL 12 SYNDICATE WINE BAR & RESTAURANT 2620 SW FIRST STREET, BEAVERTON, OR 97005 Sponsored by: The Oregon Association for Talented & Gifted REGISTER HERE: https://www.oatag.org/social_event.html#!event-register/2025/4/12/nurturing-gifted-children-parent-social ? Space is limited—reserve your spot today! ? $10.00 per person | Financial assistance available through volunteer opportunities -- contact Candice Guertin-Garey at candice@...? for details.

Friends, Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is offering a webinar on Tuesday, Feb. 25th at 7PM EST. The topic is: Understanding Social Emotional Learning Through a Cultural Lens. Presenter Dr. Donna Ford is a nationally recognized author and educator. More information and registration is available at the SENG website http://www.sengifted.org. The SENG website has recently been updated. Judy Smith

Friends: The Educator Advancement Council has openings for two directors. One is for a middle school teacher and the other is for a representative of a philanthropic organization. The EAC directors provide guidance for the Education Advancement Council which coordinates networks of regional EACs providing professional development for teachers in the region. The EAC’s work is funded with grants from the state. Directors serve two-year terms. It would be great to have someone interested in professional development on talented and gifted instruction on the Council. Learn more here: https://eac.ode.state.or.us/page/director-recruitment Margaret

---------- Original Message ---------- From: Stacey Hilborn | Bridges 2e Center Date: 02/05/2025 11:11 AM PST Subject: ZOOM TOMORROW (Thursday): Free Mental Health Presentation Session for Parents of 2e Kids Mental Health Outcomes in Autistic and Other Neurodivergent Youth: Clinical Insights and Recommendations for Parents Bridges Community, Don't miss our chat tomorrow (Thursday, February 6) for an insightful talk with Dr. Jessica Schwartzman, hosted by the 2e Center for Research and Professional Development! Dr. Schwartzman will dive into the mental health outcomes of autistic and other neurodivergent youth, sharing valuable insights on recognizing warning signs and offering effective ways to provide support. Dr. Schwartzman also will share how families can be included in her research. The presentation will be followed by an engaging Q&A session, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and deepen your understanding. Don’t miss this chance to learn how to better support the well-being of neurodivergent youth in your community! Date: Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 Fee: Free to all Time: 12 p.m. PT Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration) We look forward to seeing you online for this exciting conversation. All the best, Stacey Hilborn Stacey Hilborn Manager of the 2e Center for Research and Professional Development/ Director of Enrichment and Talent Development REGISTER HERE About the presenter: Jessica M. Schwartzman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Director of the Training and Research to Empower NeuroDiversity (TREND) Lab at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. As a clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr. Schwartzman's work focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and adults, with an emphasis on autistic and other neurodivergent people. She employs cognitive-behavioral approaches and adapts standard techniques to the unique needs of neurodivergent youth and adults. Dr. Schwartzman's lab uses multimethod approaches to understand risks for depression, suicide, anxiety, and other adverse mental health outcomes in neurodivergent youth, including EEG, clinical interviews, and surveys. Bridges Academy | 3921 Laurel Canyon Boulevard | Studio City, CA 91604 US

A big thank you to everyone who provided testimony for SB 933 and SB 934 yesterday. you can find it here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Testimony/SB933 and here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB934 The journey for these bills is just beginning. The next step is a "work session" (ie. committee vote) on the bills. The chair of the Senate Education Committee, Lew Frederick, is supportive, but he won't schedule a work session without support from his other committee members These bills were opposed by the Oregon Education Association, the Conference of Oregon School Administrators, and the Oregon School Board Association on the grounds that they would "open the floodgates" because "every parent thinks their children are gifted," because they would be new and burdensome mandates because there are "no resources" to pay for TAG . The first is a myth.... research has found that parents are a least as good at recognizing giftedness as untrained teachers (and most districts do allow parent referrals and aren’t flooded by requests) and the second just points to the fact that we currently don’t have any categorical TAG funding. I wish I thought they would also be supporting more TAG funding but that isn’t going to happen. SB 933 does call for additional reports from the Department of Education, but in most cases the Department already HAS the information—it just isn’t compiling and publishing it in a helpful way. My testimony on the value of using student GAINS instead of scores can be found here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Testimony/SB933 You can always find out about a bill’s text and progress on the relevant committee homepage: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Committees/SED/Overview Learn more about the bills, and how to communicate with your representatives here: https://tagpdx.org/advocacy.htm Margaret

Testimony for SB 933 and SB 934 needs to be submitted NOW. Hearing is tomorrow (Monday). Here are links to submit testimony. Testimony can be very brief but please be polite and include your name! First public hearing Monday at 8:00 AM Submit testimony Senate Education Committee https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SED Learn about the process here: https://www.oatag.org/advocacy.html Read more about the bills here: https://tagpdx.org/tag_bills_for_the_2025_session.htm

For people who like shortcuts: Here are links to submit testimony. Testimony can be very brief but please be polite and include your name! First public hearing Monday at 8:00 AM Submit testimony Senate Education Committee https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SED House Education Committee https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/HED Learn about the process here: https://www.oatag.org/advocacy.html Read more about the bills here: https://tagpdx.org/tag_bills_for_the_2025_session.htm

Friends: The two Senate Bills, SB 933 (Reporting TAG data and student achievement gains) and SB 934 (TAG referrals) are now in committee and scheduled for a hearing first thing Monday morning (8AM). The house bill, HB 3420 hasn’t yet been assigned to a committee, but I expect that it will be assigned to the House Education Committee. On this page you will find information on how to submit testimony or to testify in person or online about a bill https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/citizen_engagement/Pages/How-to-Testify.aspx The easiest way to follow what is going on is to become familiar with the homepages for committees. The Senate Education Committee currently has agendas for the next few meetings, a place to sign up to testify, the texts of the bills assigned to the committee, their status, a link to streaming and archived audio/video for each session and other relevant information. Other relevant information such as any amendments, a summary, a fiscal impact statement etc. are added as they are provided to the committee. For streaming and recorded a/v, click on the small arrow next to the date of the hearing. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Committees/SED/Overview The information is available on the site in both English and Spanish. There are also interpreters and a sign language interpreter during the hearings. Anyone can sign up to testify or submit testimony to a committee and having a lot of participants, even if their comments are very brief is very helpful in securing passage of a bill. If you wish to testify in person or online, be sure to put your most important point(s) first. You are likely to be asked to stop after two or at most three minutes. Sometimes people are only allowed one minute or are asked to return for a later hearing. Usually, when that happens if there are people in the room the chair will ask who has come from far away and take them first. There is still construction going on in the Capitol. The hearing rooms are open, but the cafeteria is gone and parking can be difficult. If you want to testify, I have found that testifying online is usually very easy and efficient. You can learn more about the bills and find some samples of how to communicate with your legislators here: https://tagpdx.org/advocacy.htm Find your legislators here: https://geo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/lookup/index.html?appid=fd070b56c975456ea2a25f7e3f4289d1

Friends, Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is offering virtual community group discussions starting in February. February 3, 2025 SENG-Hosted SCG: Educators of 2e Learners 4:30 PM PST February 9, 2025 SENG Community Group: Gifted Adults 5:00 PM PST February 11, 2025 SENG Community Group: Early Career Gifted Adults 11:00 AM EST More information and registration is on the SENG Website https://www.sengifted.org/community-groups Judy Smith

Friends: We now have a TAG funding bill: HB 3420 to accompany SB 933 and SB 934. Learn more tonight when we chat! Margaret DeLacy is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Let’s meet! Time: Jan 28, 2025 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83857619179?pwd=avylaMlAcHUENLiYqb7AYSU40cErW2.1 Meeting ID: 838 5761 9179 Passcode: 380320 One tap mobile +17193594580,,83857619179#,,,,*380320# US +12532050468,,83857619179#,,,,*380320# US --- Meeting ID: 838 5761 9179 Passcode: 380320 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdlP8yGS6q

Friends: The Senate Education committee is arranging a public hearing at 8:00 AM Monday, February 3rd for two bills that we requested and Senator Taylor has sponsored. This hearing will accept public testimony, written, online, or in person. I will host an information session ONLINE tomorrow night for anyone who is interested or would like to learn more about how to participate in the legislative process. See below for the zoom link and come join the chat! SB 933 addresses accountability data about student achievement AND issues related to TAG data reporting at the state and district level. The first part of the bill addresses a decision by the State Board of Education that excluded TAG and high achieving students out of the provisions of the Student Success Act designed for students in groups with special needs. This section of the SSA spells out groups of "underserved" students who will be explicitly included and for whom there will be "longitudinal growth targets." Several other provisions of the SSA and even of other bills, laws, and rules reference this section, so when TAG students were excluded from this section of the SSA, the data called for elsewhere also did not include TAG students. The bill calls for a breakdown of TAG students by income, ethnicity, ELL, and Special education status, compared to the overall population in a district. It also calls for district-level reports on spending for services, student performance, course taking, FTE and staff credentials, and results of parent surveys "on the adequacy of instruction provided to talented and gifted children.," and also adds this data to the state report card together with district size. Most of this information is already provided by districts to the Oregon Department of Education but it is not consistently reported. Some of this information is in the state report card, but some of it is in reports that each district submits separately to the Department and is not collected for a statewide report. Collecting and reporting this information will make it possible to ensure that our new identification rule and our TAG spending are having the intended outcomes. However, the most important part of this bill is not limited to TAG or to high-achieving students. It requires the Oregon Department of Education to report student achievement GAINS broken down by grade level, ability level, and income/ethnicity. Currently (including in the latest accountability "Dashboard") the department does report overall student achievement levels by ethnicity and income but this does not show how much these students are learning—it just shows where they are at a single point in time. The only way to use achievement scores to ensure that every student is actually learning is to look at student growth during the school year. Breaking this down by ability level ensures that the gains of students at either end of the achievement scale aren't concealed by the gains of students in the middle. SB 934 States that anyone who knows a student may refer that student to an identification team for assessment for TAG. This ratifies current practice in most Oregon districts, but it was missing from our original TAG mandate. Research has shown that when referrals for assessment are limited, some gifted students are more likely to be missed. Margaret DeLacy is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Lets meet! Time: Jan 28, 2025 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83857619179?pwd=avylaMlAcHUENLiYqb7AYSU40cErW2.1 Meeting ID: 838 5761 9179 Passcode: 380320 --- One tap mobile +17193594580,,83857619179#,,,,*380320# US +12532050468,,83857619179#,,,,*380320# US --- Dial by your location ? +1 719 359 4580 US ? +1 253 205 0468 US ? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ? +1 669 444 9171 US ? +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) ? +1 564 217 2000 US ? +1 646 931 3860 US ? +1 689 278 1000 US ? +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) ? +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) ? +1 305 224 1968 US ? +1 309 205 3325 US ? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ? +1 360

Friends: Here is a list of the membership of the education committees in the current legislative session. If any of these people represents YOU, please contact them and ask them to support funding and services for our TAG students. If you are not sure who represents you or how to contact them you can find out here. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at president@... Let’s get this over the top this session! Margaret https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/citizen_engagement Senate Committee On Education Chair Senator Lew Frederick Vice-Chair Senator Suzanne Weber Member Senator Sara Gelser Blouin Member Senator Noah Robinson Member Senator Janeen Sollman House committee on Education Chair Representative Courtney Neron Vice-Chair Representative April Dobson Vice-Chair Representative Emily McIntire Member Representative Darin Harbick Member Representative Zach Hudson Member Representative Hoa Nguyen Member Representative Ricki Ruiz Member Representative Boomer Wright Joint Subcommittee on Ways and Means: Education subcommittee Co-Chair Senator Janeen Sollman Co-Chair Representative Ricki Ruiz Member Senator Lew Frederick Member Senator Suzanne Weber Member Representative Susan McLain Member Representative Hoa Nguyen Member Representative Boomer Wright Member Representative Dwayne Yunker

How to become an effective advocate for your students: Find out who represents you in Salem and then get to know them: Finding your legislator Go to the Oregon Legislature Home Page In the “Find My Legislators" box enter your address including zip code and click Go. By clicking on the tabs for "House" and "Senate" at the top you will find a listing of your legislators in that chamber. If you click on their web page link, you will find contact information, news and a biography for each legislator. It is an excellent idea to sign up for your legislators' newsletters. This will tell you what their priorities are and will also alert you to scheduled Town Halls in your district. Every Oregon legislator eventually votes on nearly every bill (a couple are usually excused due to sickness or official business) You can sign up for their newsletter on their web page At the bottom of the Oregon Legislative Home Page is a button labelled "esubscribe". This will take you to a central listing where you can enter your email and sign up for agendas, newsletters, and other legislative information. Capitol Phone: 503-986-1426 Capitol Address: 900 Court St NE, H-281, Salem, OR 97301 Email: Rep.CourtneyNeron@... Website: http://www.oregonlegislature.gov/neron

Learn about the findings in the latest NAGC State of the States report in this free NAGC webinar Session 2: NAGC State of the States Report: An Overview January 23, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. ET Free & Open to All Speaker: Jaret Hodges Join us as we debut the latest edition of the State of the States in Gifted Education report, covering SY 2021-22. What changes have happened nationwide over the last two years in gifted education policy? How are states implementing universal screening? Get answers to these questions and more during this session. Register Here Jaret Hodges is an assistant professor at the University of North Texas in gifted education. His research interests are in underserved populations in gifted education and education policy. He also has interest in promoting open science practices and computer programming in educational research. His current research examines how gifted students are depicted online Margaret

Join Our Pre-Session Joint Town Hall 1/18 Friends: Senator Aaron Woods, Representative Coutney Neron and Representative Ben Bowman are holding a Town Hall meeting on SATURDAY at 2:00 PM in King City, which on route 99 between Tigard and Sherwood. I encourage you to attend if you can! Town halls are always interesting. Please take this opportunity to learn about their plans for the coming session and to ask them whether they will support TAG funding. Representative Neron will be chair of the House Education Committee this session. https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/neron Representative Bowman is the House Majority Leader https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bowman/Pages/committees.aspx Senator Woods had a long career in our high tech industry https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/woods/Pages/biography.aspx To learn more about how to participate in the coming legislative session, which begins on January 21, go to https://www.oatag.org/advocacy.html Margaret DeLacy, President Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted www.OATAG.org OATAG provides information at no cost to support Oregon students, educators and families. Your OATAG membership is essential for this to continue. https://www.oatag.org/

My letter from Wednesday's Oregonian: Readers respond: Student Success Act leaves some students behind Published: Dec. 13, 2024, 6:00 a.m. Like many other Oregonians, I cheered when the Student Success Act passed in 2019, (“Opinion: Student Success Act offers state a model for effective, accountable education funding,”) It promised a new beginning for our K-12 education system, but its promise was soon diminished. Sadly, the state Board of Education agreed that one group of special-needs students should be excluded from the full benefits of the act, perhaps the first time that any student group has been deliberately singled out for neglect. The bill created funding for students experiencing academic disparities. However, the board decided that lack of access to programs for academically gifted and high-achieving students does not constitute academic disparity. According to the report that underlay the act, many parents spoke to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Student Success about the lack of resources for Talented and Gifted programs; the committee recommended categorical TAG funding. Today, half of all Oregon districts either do not fund or do not identify TAG students. Portland Public Schools, by its own admission, has been out of compliance for mandated TAG services since 2016. Tens of thousands of students have wasted much of their time in school while our tax dollars have been squandered on teaching them material they already know. In the words of the opinion writers, “if we want our kids to live out their most ambitious dreams, we must provide the education they need” and keep expectations high. Any education system that has high expectations for every student includes high-achieving students. Margaret DeLacy, Portland Here’s an example of why the exclusion from the SIA list of "focal groups" referenced in my letter matters: Today the House Education Committee reviewed a document "A Renewed Vision for Oregon's Accountability System 2024" which can be found here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023I1/Committees/HED/2024-12-10-11-30/MeetingMaterials The document calls for "High-Quality Learning Experiences for ALL Students but the data "lever" references "SIA Metrics and Longitudinal Performance Growth Targets" The outcome it seeks is "Scholars regularly attend school, READ AT GRADE LEVEL, are on track to graduate...." (my emphasis). Those "SIA Metrics and Growth Targets" exclude the very group of students making the smallest growth: high-achieving students who exceeded state benchmarks. Elsewhere it describes "attention to year-over-year growth," but again, high-achieving students will be excluded. Margaret

Friends: I would appreciate it if you would let us know whether you would be interested in an OATAG facebook group (we already have a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/OregonTAG) and whether you would be interested in joining me and other Oregon TAG parents for an informal online chat either ONCE or once each month during the school year at a regular time/date? I will only set these up if there is enough interest! You can reply here or email me at president@... Thank you, Margaret

Friends: TOMORROW, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, the Oregon House Education Committee will have an interim hearing on school finances and accountability. You can find the agenda here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023I1/Committees/HED/2024-12-10-11-30/Agenda On the top right-hand corner of that page is a tab labelled “e subscribe” If you follow that link and enter your email it will give you an option to subscribe to any legislative press releases, legislator emails, and committee agendas. Once you have checked a box indicating your choices, it retains your subscription preferences from session to session until you unselect them. On the agenda page, you will find tabs with links to the recording of the hearing (after it has taken place), meeting materials, and the text of any bills that have been submitted. During the long session, there are four or more education committee hearings every week, so I don’t send out notices unless a particular hearing is especially relevant for TAG. If you would like to follow the legislative session yourself, please sign up for yourself! You will learn a great deal about how our state works. Most of the action in the legislature takes place in committees. If you go to the committee webpage, you can find most of the material you need to follow subjects of interest to you. It is also helpful to check out the websites for your own legislators and sign up for their newsletters on their legislative webpage. You can find out who represents you by going to the legislature’s homepage at https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/ and using the tab headed “Discover your district and who represents you.” You must enter your zip code in the space for a result. Note that the legislators AND committee assignments will be different in January! If your legislator is resigning, you can check back again next month. The Oregon legislature makes many decisions that affect you and your family. I strongly recommend becoming familiar with this site and your representatives. Listen into some hearings and encourage your students and children to watch their government in action! The site is well organized and easy to navigate (unlike the Department of Education website!) Meanwhile, this is an excellent time to request a meeting with your own legislators and ask them to support TAG funding. TAG is a bipartisan issue. Margaret

Friends: Below is an excerpt from an article about the way Virginia is reconsidering both its math instruction and the way it monitors the opportunities offered in lower-income districts. The previous situation with "math pathways" that discouraged acceleration until 11th. grade, is exactly the same as the one currently in place here in Oregon. It is based on discredited claims by professor Jo Boaler at Stanford. "Why Algebra in Middle School Is Civil Rights Issue" by Todd Truitt, posted by ADVANCE "Civil rights leader Bob Moses referred to the ability to accelerate in math (i.e. go above grade level) in order to take Algebra in middle school as a civil right. It has been a longstanding goal of the US Department of Education and civil rights organizations. Nationally, middle schools that are not offering Algebra disproportionately serve lower income and underrepresented minority students. As explained by Stanford University Math Professor, and Director of Undergraduate Math Studies, Brian Conrad: “A solid grounding in math from high school—which traditionally has included two years of algebra, a year of geometry, and then, for more advanced students, other coursework leading up to calculus [and beyond]—is a prerequisite for a four-year college degree in data science, computer science, economics, and other quantitative fields. Such a degree is, in turn, the price of entry for jobs not only in the sciences and Silicon Valley but also in a number of seemingly distant fields. … The students who are most reliant upon public schools are the most harmed when districts embrace policies based on superficial appeals to equity or false promises about future job opportunities." ..... https://edadvance.substack.com/p/new-accountability-system-supports-advanced-math-learners

Free Winter course for caregivers of 2-e youth: January 7 to February 11, 7-8:30 PM EST/ 4-5:30 PM PST INTRODUCTION A doctoral student from Bridges Graduate School, Marna Wohlfeld, is designing a six-week Education and Support Program for Parents and Caregivers of 2e Youth as part of her dissertation research. She is inviting parents and caregivers of 2e children to attend the free, six-week online program, which will feature the latest research on supporting 2e children using concepts from the Five Non-negotiable Environments for 2e Learners and nervous system regulation. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScB7Oy00Pt1jh8lHrPJ9OfnyH2FU8rIwWghdAcCAt3Gf4NqoA/viewform