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Make Your Case: Experienced G/T Educator

Keep Exploring What Is Possible

Experience gives you a strong foundation, but gifted education continues to evolve.

New research, technologies, student needs, and instructional approaches create opportunities to refresh your practice and consider what comes next.

giftED26 gives you time to explore new ideas, learn from other professionals, and return with resources that can strengthen your work and support your colleagues.

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Why Attend giftED26?

  • Refresh Your Practice: Explore new approaches to differentiation, rigor, engagement, talent development, advanced academics, twice-exceptionality, and social-emotional learning.
  • Stay Current: Learn about emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, identification, equitable access, program design, and new research.
  • Bring Back Practical Resources: Find tools, materials, programs, and ideas you can adapt for your students, colleagues, campus, or district.
  • Learn From the Field: Connect with educators, researchers, specialists, and leaders who are navigating similar challenges and testing new approaches.
  • Renew Your Focus: Step back, reflect on your practice, and return with fresh ideas and renewed energy.

Download the Make-a-Case Toolkit

Use the customizable letter, fact sheet, and expense worksheet to explain how giftED26 can help you:

  • Refresh and expand your instructional toolkit.
  • Stay current on research and emerging topics.
  • Find resources that can be implemented or adapted.
  • Support professional learning across your campus.
  • Mentor colleagues.
  • Connect conference learning to instructional or program goals.
Download the make-a-case letter
Download the fact sheet
Download the Expense Worksheet

Build Your giftED26 Experience

Explore the full giftED26 schedule, choose the add-ons that fit your goals, and register to build a conference experience that supports your classroom, campus, or district.

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