TAGT Leadership Conference 2025

Embracing and empowering all gifted learners requires integrating their diverse learning needs into existing school structures. Learn practical measures school leaders need to build, support, and maintain inclusive gifted practices within every aspect of the school. Tips and suggestions directed toward administrators, gifted coordinators, and principals will guide participants’ discussions.

Voices of administrators with expertise and training in culturally responsive leadership practices coupled with voices of Black Advanced Placement students provide a cornucopia of solutions for recruitment and retention of Black students. Culminating with research supported discussion and question/answer, attendees depart the session ready to implement program-enhancing approaches.

We've heard of instructional coaching, where teachers work with coaches to improve student outcomes. What about a coaching model for teachers who support G/T students? Introducing CELES: Coaching Educators and Leaders of Exceptional Students. Attend this session to learn more about how this student-centered model will help elevate G/T programming.

School administrators recognize the inequities in serving diverse gifted learners and those in poverty. Identification procedures typically require English proficiency and advanced achievement, which impact who gets identified. Obstacles are well established. What’s the solution? In this interactive session, attendees learn about an innovative approach toward equitable identification with research-based evidence.