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June/July 2015 - Issue 120
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We have so much exciting news at SENG this month that we had to make a special section to tell you about it!

 

Our Gift to You!
National Parenting Gifted Children Week falls from July 19-25 this year. Every year we offer something special in celebration of the occasion, and this year is no different.

From July 20-24 (each weekday during NPGC Week) SENG is offering a
50% discount off of ANY of the very popular SENGinars in the SENG online store (individual use only). To get your discount, just enter the code NPGC15 during checkout.

Many of our SENGinar presenters will be offering sessions at this year's conference. Here are some recommendations you may want to try:

 

 

Developing Internal Motivation in Gifted Youth (Lisa van Gemert, MEd)

 

Finding, Building, and Creating Meaningful Work (Paula Prober, MS, MEd)

 

Intensity in Action: Understanding and Helping Gifted Kids (Ellen Fiedler, PhD)

 

Taming the Worry Monster: Anxiety in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional (2e) Youth (Dan Peters, PhD)

 

Teaching Academics to Gifted Youth with Asperger's (Terry Friedrichs, PhD, EdD)

 

Contest Winner Announced!

Congratulations to Patty, our contest winner! Patty, and many others, shared their personal story about parenting a gifted child and was chosen to win two free passes to the 2015 SENG Annual Conference, as part of our celebration of NPGC Week. See you in Denver!

 

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New SENGVine Feature 

Upcoming SENGVine Newsletters will include a new column called "Voices." We know that the best way to help others is often to share our own stories, so we are offering this column to pass along your stories and experiences! Stay tuned for some great new content. 


2015 SENG Conference Online Registration has ended

Walk-in registrations accepted if space is available. No walk-in registrations will be taken for the children and teen programs.

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August 27, 2015
Adversity and Resilience
Presenter: Sharon Barnes

 

September 8, 2015
Issues for Gifted Women (2015 Adult Gifted Series)
Presenter: Jade Rivera

 

October 6, 2015
If I'm So Smart, Then Why Am I So Dumb? (2015 Adult Gifted Series)
Presenter: Paula Prober

 

November 10, 2015
Gifted Elders (2015 Adult Gifted Series)
Presenter: Joy Navan

 

December 17, 2015
Motivation and Underachievement
Presenter: Jim Webb

 

June 8, 2015 

The Heart of the Gifted Underachiever

Presenter: Josh Shaine

 

August 27, 2015
Adversity and Resilience
Presenter: Sharon Barnes

 

September 8, 2015
Issues for Gifted Women (2015 Adult Gifted Series) 

Presenter: Jade Rivera

 

October 6, 2015
If I'm So Smart, Then Why Am I So Dumb? (2015 Adult Gifted Series) 

Presenter: Paula Prober

 

November 10, 2015
Gifted Elders (2015 Adult Gifted Series) 

Presenter: Joy Navan

 

December 17, 2015
Motivation and Underachievement
Presenter: Jim Webb

 

REGISTRATION AVAILABLE SOON!
Welcome
 

Dear SENG Friends,

 

Everyone at SENG is working diligently to pull together last minute details for the annual conference in Denver, CO (July 24-26). This is such a special time for us and to make it even more exciting, National Parenting Gifted Children Week falls DURING our conference this year. Which means if you attend the conference, you can celebrate with us in person, and if you cannot attend, we will still have some great offers to help you celebrate from home!

 

Please check out our breaking news section in the left-hand column to read about what is going on at SENG and how you can help us celebrate this occasion.

 

We hope you will be able to join us in Denver this year as we S.O.A.R. to new heights of learning, sharing, and networking. The 2015 conference will include pre-conference continuing education workshops for the first time. In addition, SENG has partnered with the Rick's Center at Denver University to offer a high quality children and teen programs. This conference stands to be the best one SENG has offered yet! I hope to see you all in Denver!  

 

Sincerely,

 

The SENG Conference Team 

 

Kathleen Casper

Fire Chasers - Intensities to the extreme

By Kathleen Casper, J.D.

 

Dabrowski was onto something with his overexcitabilities (OE's) research. He recognized that different people experience certain stimuli in different ways- often with intensities beyond those of other people.

 

He listed and analyzed multiple types of intensities that researchers believe fit different personalities and characteristics of gifted people. He mentioned that some people may possess one or a combination of any of the following five areas of overexcitabilities (what he explained to be intense reactions to stimuli beyond what normally occurs in individuals' sensory responses): psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginative, and/or emotional. Read More... 

 
Sorry...Differentiation Still Doesn't Work

by Jim Delisle

 

OK...I admit it: over the years, some of my writing about gifted kids and how to educate them has raised a ruckus or two. When I argued that gifted kids needed to be educated with others who are at least as capable as they are, I was called elitist. When I lambasted the talent-laden definition of giftedness adopted by the National Association for Gifted Children in 2010, I was told that our field would fade away unless we aligned ourselves with regular education initiatives. But nothing I have ever written ignited such passion as my Education Week article, "Differentiation doesn't work," published in January, 2015. Read More... 

 

Touching the Mystery: Spiritually Gifted Children

by Joy Navan

 

Annemarie Roeper often commented that many gifted children have a greater sensitivity to and awareness of that which lies beyond what we perceive and know. Dr. Roeper called this the mystery and felt that many gifted children see themselves as travelers on a more profound journey. Writers who study gifted children often note that they are the ones who ask the existential questions - "Who am I?" "Where did I come from?" "What will become of me?"  In this issue of Talking Circles, I wish to address gifted spirituality, with an eye to exploring the dimensions of spirituality as we observe them in gifted individuals. Whether we refer to the mystery as universal connectedness, the great unknown, that beyond which nothing greater can be imagined, or the uncaused cause, many gifted children demonstrate a familiarity with these abstractions. Read More...  

 
100 Words of Wisdom: Tiombe Bisa Kendrick-Dunn

In approximately 100 words, experts from around the world offer their perspective on some aspect of giftedness. View and share the online version.
  

With summer finally upon us, families are preparing for vacations and much needed time away from their typical daily duties. This is also the season when gifted and talented children and young adults have some free time from their educational obligations. I encourage parents to create opportunities for their children geared toward personal interests. It is imperative that after working hard all year these children experience some fun! Additionally, I encourage young college students to do the same! Gifted and talented individuals need respite from their increasingly busy lives and summertime is one of the best times to do so.

            

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Tiombe Bisa Kendrick-Dunn is a nationally certified school psychologist and is licensed to practice school psychology in the state of Florida. She has been employed with the Miami-Dade County Public School District as a school psychologist since 2005. In 2006, Ms. Kendrick-Dunn was a member of Miami-Dade Public Schools Gifted Task Force Committee and was awarded the Mary Frasier Scholarship sponsored by the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC). In 2007, she was both appointed to the NAGC Diversity/ Equity Committee and was awarded a grant by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Children Fund Inc to establish a resource center specifically designed for gifted students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Ms. Kendrick-Dunn has presented at numerous professional conventions on the topic of gifted children and currently serves as the SENG Board President.

 
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