2022 Schedule
To view descriptions of each strand click here.
Strands are three-day sessions. Once you choose your strand for each block, you should attend that strand on all days of the conference. You can attend up to 3 strands live.
MONDAY 7/11
TUESDAY 7/12
WEDNESDAY 7/13
MORNING KEYNOTES: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT.
Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis
Erik Francis
Fiona Vernal
STRAND BLOCK A: 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT.
- Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM)—Renzulli & Reis (Monday Overview)
[SEM Breakout Strands meet on Tues. and Wed.]- Elementary—Brandon
- Middle/High School—Brigandi
- Principals & Coordinators—Quatrano & Spataro
- Using SEM in the Classroom—Waicunas
- Meeting the Needs of Your Student Mathematicians (Grades K–8)—Firmender *Only available as live session
- Challenging Students with Engaging Questions—Francis
- Bright Kids Coping with a Complex World with Grace and Grit—Hébert
- Designing Personalized Learning Experiences—Housand
- Rigor Not Rigor mortis: Escalating ELA, Literacy & Thinking for High Ability Students—Richards
STRAND BLOCK B: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM EDT.
- Brains Wired Differently: Understanding and Supporting 2e Students—Baum
- Challenging Talented Readers with the SEM-R—Eckert
- Enrichment Clusters: A Practical Plan for Real-World, Student-Driven Learning—Gentry
- Let's Be Scientists!—Heilbronner
- Creative Storytelling: Making Learning Creative and Kinesthetic—Herman
- Differentiating Curriculum AND Instruction—Kaplan
- Using Curriculum Compacting and Type III Enrichment to Engage and Enrich Your Students—Quatrano & Spataro
- Books as Mentors: A Wide Range of Literature and Expository Texts for Igniting Readers, Thinkers, and Activists—Richards
- The Scholar Identity Model™: Motivating High Ability Underrepresented Underachievers—Whiting
STRAND BLOCK C: 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT.
- Using Texts to Teach Gifted Learners that "What Just Is Isn't Always Justice"—Fogarty
- Access Denied/System Failure: Access, Equity, and Missingness in Gifted Education: Status and Actions—Gentry & Whiting
- Helping Bright Guys Become Awesome Men—Hébert
- Integrating Arts and Creativity into the Core Curriculum—Lacina
- Going for Depth: Strategies for Promoting Deeper Learning—Leppien
- Big Ideas and Big Questions: Approaches for Engaging Students in Higher-Level Thinking—Little
- Creative Mathematics Is Not an Oxymoron—McAnallen
- Motivation and Reversing Underachievement—Siegle
- Infusing the SEM: Head, Heart, Gut—Waicunas
LIVE SPECIAL SESSIONS: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT.
Special Topics
Special Topics
Brian Housand