TAGT Leadership Conference

Keynote Address by Joyce Juntune

Opening the Doors of Opportunity for Low SES Gifted Students: Building Verbal Intelligence
While we have spent energy on finding and implementing a variety of identification procedures to ensure that gifted children from poverty are identified for our gifted programs, much less energy has been put into building the skills for their success that will enable them to stay and flourish in the gifted program.   During this session we will share the findings that started this research at Texas A&M University and the interventions being implemented in El Paso ISD to change the way we view and serve gifted students from poverty. 

TAGT is proud to recognize TAGT Corporate Partner Knowsys Educational Services as the opening Keynote Sponsor for the 2012 Leadership Conference.

She will also be leading the following breakout session:   Strategies for Building Academic Literacy in Gifted Students Raised in Poverty—This “hands-on” session will introduce participants to the strategies we are using to develop academic literacy in children raised in poverty.  We will discuss the rationale behind these strategies and suggestions for integrating them into regular classroom teaching. Come prepared to participant, ask questions, share ideas, and learn.