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Gifted and IB conference Notes

3/11/2015

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Ms. Barone and Ms. Johnston went to the IB conference in Minneapolis and created this self study: IB self- study Blendspace (inspired by Ms. Frilot!) 

Ms. Lyttle and Ms Thornburg went to the NCTies Tech conference and share these notes


Mr. Fatzinger, Ms. Burick, Mr. Milligan and I went to the NC gifted conference and share these notes and photos. Mr. Milligan led a session on his famous Pigman Mock trial. I also went  to an IB session while there and took these notes.


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These are the 8 greatest gripes of gifted students.
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Don't just throw more work at gifted students, make it high caliber and involve choice and use of strengths. (I think we do an excellent job of this at Piedmont!)
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The following images came from the many sessions I attended by Angela and Brian Housand who presented with Joseph Renzulli. More info can be found at their website. (see photo)

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I went to a session on nano technology and this was said to be the most important next scientific revolution.
Finally I went to a session on using Drama and Performance in core classes. Here are a few of their ideas:
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