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Intensity Through the Ages – Free Event for Parents, Teachers, and Advocates
The Seattle Public Schools Advanced Learning Office and the non-profit organization Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) are sponsoring a free lecture on gifted children. Speaking will be visiting author Lisa Rivero, (A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens,...
Summer Enrichment Opportunities
Sponsored by the National Society of the Gifted and Talented, the Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) is a three-week program for academically accelerated students. Students take five innovative, challenging courses in various disciplines, and SIG’s excellent...
Get Ready for Gifted Education Day
As February 11th approaches, the Coalition will have weekly updates on how you can best prepare to be an effective advocate for your highly capable learners. Our first update is available here. Thank you for your participation in this important event for our students.
Are you ready for 2011?
Happy New Year - and may it prove so for advocates of Highly Capable Programs! The upcoming session of the Legislature will be one of the most consequential in recent state history. Budget and revenue problems are vexing; reorganization of government is on the table;...
A Statement in Support of Highly Capable Program Funding
Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D., is a senior scientist, emerita at the FPG Child Development Institute at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and research associate professor in the School of Education. Her research focuses on students with exceptional...
How to talk to your kids about proposed cuts to highly capable programming
As concerned parents and advocates, we have put together this set of talking points to help you navigate your children’s (and possibly your own) reaction to all the news of proposed cuts to highly capable programming. Information is everywhere, both in the media and...