KAGE 30th Annual Conference

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE KAGE 30th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FEBRUARY 8 - 9, 2010! Please join us as we celebrate 30 years of advocacy and service for Kentucky's gifted children and youth. The KAGE Conference will feature two days of presentations from national and state experts on topics and exhibits of interest to educators and parents of gifted children. Presenters will include Sally M. Reis, Ph.D., a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at The University of Connecticut and the past Department Head of Educational Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as a Principal Investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, and George Betts, Ed.D., Professor of Special Education in the area of gifted and talented education at the University of Northern Colorado, and featured speaker on RTI and the Autonomous Learner Model. Registration information and brochures for our 30th Annual Conference are NOW available! For the most current conference information, including online registration and sessions information, click here. Click here to download the 30th Annual Conference brochure.

The Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award and the KAGE Service and Advocacy Awards will be presented on February 9, 2010 during the KAGE Annual Conference Lexington. For an application and more information on the Nicholas Green program click here and for a copy of the KAGE Service and Advocacy Award nomination form click here.

Thanks to everyone for three successful events - Issues for Leaders in Gifted Education, Parent Night, and Fall Workshop! Dr. Jean Peterson has graciously agreed to let us post her PowerPoint handouts from Parent Night on September 21 - click here to download A Counselor's Perspective on Parenting Gifted Kids. Thanks also to Susie Burkhardt for her informative PowerPoint presentation Obligation and Opportunity (click here to download.)

Don't forget to check our OTHER RESOURCES page. We have links to lots of valuable resources for parents, educators, and students. Some of our past speakers have graciously allowed us to post their handouts on this page.

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

Click here to view the video Gifted Education: Let's Do It!, developed by the Kentucky Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education.

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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