Gifted and Talented Coordinators Network Meeting

The Gifted and Talented (GT) Coordinators Network meetings are designed to share information and provide networking opportunities for GT Coordinators.  This year, Diane Heacox will be joining us through distance learning technology to teach us, "Collaboration Strategies for GT Coordinators to Use with Classroom Teachers to Better Serve High Achieving Students".  

Dr. Diane Heacox is a consultant and professional development trainer focusing on strategies to increase learning success for all students.  She is a national and international consultant and professional development trainer to both public and private schools on a variety of topics related to teaching and learning.  Dr. Heacox has taught at both elementary and secondary school levels and has served as a gifted education teacher and administrator, as well as an instructional specialist in public education.  Dr. Heacox is also the author of four books.  Her first book for Free Spirit Publishers was Up From Underachievement:  How Teachers, Students and Parents Can Work Together.  Her second book, Differentiating Instruction int he Regular Classroom:  How to Reach and Teach All Learners was updated and released in 2012.  Making Differentiation a Habit earned the 2010 Association of Education Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award.  Her newest book co-authored with Richard Cash, Differentiation for Gifted Learners:  Going Beyond the Basics received the 2014 Legacy Book Award for Educators by the Texas Association for Gifted and Talented.  We are truly fortunate to have Dr. Heacox teaching us.

Learning Outcomes include:

1. Participants will gain insight into a specific strategy for collaborating with classroom teachers to better serve high achieving students.
2. Participants will have an opportunity to network with fellow GT Coordinators from CESA 10 districts.
3. Participants will get an update on our consortium GT Student Education grant awarded to us by the DPI.

GT consortium members (includes Abbotsford, Augusta, Bloomer, Bruce, Cadott, Chippewa Falls, Colby, Eleva-Strum, Gilman, Gilmanton, Granton, Greenwood, Ladysmith, Lake Holcombe, Loyal, Mondovi, New Auburn, Osseo-Fairchild, Owen-Withee, Spencer, and Thorp) should enter discount code GT when prompted during registration to receive the GT consortium discount.