Registration is now open for the KAGE Fall Workshop on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. OUT OF WHAT? A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING GIFTED CHILDREN will be led by Patricia Schuler, Ph.D., a highly sought-after presenter on the social-emotional needs of the gifted. Dr. Schuler is a partner in Creative Insights, a counseling and educational consulting practice in New York that specializes in working with high ability children. Dr. Schuler has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Gifted and Talented Education) from the University of Connecticut, and is the author of Voices of Perfectionism: Perfectionistic Gifted Adolescents in a Rural Middle School. Two other events are held in conjunction with the Fall Workshop - Parent Night and Issues for Leaders on Tuesday, September 23. You will not want to miss any of these informative events. Click here for more information.

A $125,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation to the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence in partnership with The Center for Gifted Studies and the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science will fund development of a special statewide Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For more information go to the Prichard Committee website here.

THE WHITE PAPER entitled Kentucky's Future: Mining Untapped Treasure - Children and Youth of the Commonwealth Who are Gifted and Talented , is available here.

KAGE is affiliated with the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC), and is housed at Western Kentucky University in the Center for Gifted Studies. KAGE is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that receives no government funding. We are supported solely by membership dues, our annual conference, sale of publications and donations.

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