Gifted and IB conference Notes

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.

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!)

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: