Received today from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC): Over the last few weeks, Congress has taken significant steps to eliminate the only federal investment focused on high-ability, disadvantaged students, the Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act. Thankfully, Congressman Courtney (D-CT) and Congressman Gallegly (R-CA) are leading the effort to reinstate Javits [...]
SENG is bringing their 2011 national convention to Seattle. They also hope to be able to launch a series of training classes for parents, and for trainers, to bring the tools that SENG is built on to more families in more places. They hope to be able to provide full scholarships to participants in their [...]
To celebrate National Parenting Gifted Children Week, July 18-24, 2010, SENG, Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted, offered a special week-long series of special mini-newsletters. Each day’s issue focused on a specific topic relating to parenting gifted children. The issues were: Identifying and Recognizing Giftedness Challenges of Parenting Gifted Children Underachievement Issues and Twice Exceptionalism Gifted Minorities, [...]
