TAGT Leadership Conference 2025

Learn how a strengths-based approach helps educators differentiate instruction efficiently without adding extra planning time. By focusing on students’ abilities—such as problem-solving and critical thinking—teachers can improve engagement, address learning challenges, and foster academic growth. This session provides practical strategies to support all learners through meaningful, strengths-based instruction.

Ready for a new G/T service model? This is “Year C” of our restructured elementary QUEST program. Explore the steps taken in our redesign from initial planning through the development of standards and curriculum, family involvement, specialist training, and more. Leave with some redesign plans of your own!

Make a big impact with limited resources. Explore high-yield strategies for keeping teachers engaged in your G/T program. Discover how to use collaborative meetings, teacher tips, and an annual conference to foster sustained involvement, leveraging a small team to maximize impact without requiring significant departmental resources.

How big is the vision for gifted education at your school? Would you describe it as a little tweak here, and a touch of differentiation over there? A celebration or two, a spring product fair, and an emotional support club. Better yet, perhaps your vision is grandiose, life changing, transformational. What does that even look like? Whether you are newer to the field or have been rethinking your approach to giftedness and talent development for more than a decade, the common goal is exceptional performance and student flourishing. Join with your peers in this time of challenging assumptions about gifted education and imagining programs that are just a little audacious in scope and outcomes.

This closing session will include updates to the State Plan and what they mean for your district as well as a review of policy related to G/T, such as Texas Administrative Code to make sure everyone has a thorough understanding of what guides your identification processes, programs, and services.  Structured working groups will be available to determine what your next steps are as you head back to your office and where you can locate the resources you need.