Free Webinars About Parenting Gifted Children

 

National Parenting Gifted Children Week is July 21-27, 2013!

SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) are offering four free webinars.  The important thing about this series - Each webinar is only free to download on the date listed and for a one-time ("single use") viewing.  So, wait until the day of to click the link and "order" the webinars you want.  The webinars can be "watched" at anytime you wish, however, to get it FREE it has to be "ordered" on the date it is offered below.

Monday, July 22: Bootcamp for Determined Advocates, presented by Wenda Sheard, an attorney, teacher, and mother of three grown gifted children. This webinar will focus on legal, political, and educational aspects of advocacy.

Tuesday, July 23: Forging Partnerships with Teachers and Why They Often Don't Work, presented by Nancy Robinson, professor emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and former director of what is now known as the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. This webinar will feature reasons parents and teachers can be on different pages, plus strategies for coming together and working together on behalf of the child.

Wednesday, July 24: Parent Engagement in Promoting a STEM Identity Among Gifted Black Students, presented by Tarek Grantham, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology (EPIT) at the University of Georgia, and Kristina Collins, a doctoral student in the EPIT department whose research focuses on parent engagement, STEM identity, and under-represented gifted students. This webinar details strategies parents can utilize to encourage and support a positive STEM identity in underrepresented gifted youth.

Thursday, July 25: This Isn't the Child I Dreamed of Raising, presented by Barbara Probst, social worker and author of When the Labels Don't Fit. This webinar will assist parents in deconstructing their child's challenging emotional and behavioral issues, followed by focused strategies to empower parent and child alike to overcome them and thrive.

More details about each webinar and each presenter are available at the webinar's link.

Free Webinar from ASCD on the Common Core State Standards - Monday, July 22, 2013

Shifting from the Elephant in the Room to Ownership of the Common Core State Standards: A Capacity-Building Implementation Plan

Nicole Clifton  

Participants will gain an understanding of building internal capacity for implementing the Common Core State Standards as well as understanding their role in facilitating implementation.

Participants will discover best practices for successful implementation through planning job-embedded professional learning, determining a timeline for implementation, and determining a plan for getting assistance.

This webinar will also focus on exploring powerful strategies that will demonstrate how to monitor and adjust implementation plans during the implementation period.

Monday, July 22, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EST

Register

 

Free Webinar from Education Week

Using data to inform instruction and personalize learning:  A continuous improvement framework.  Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 2 to 3 pm ET

Content provided by DreamBox Learning.

Educators and administrators across the K-12 spectrum aspire to effectively utilize data to enhance teaching and learning. But what powerful, easy-to-use frameworks are out there to enable them to make the switch from data collectors to data innovators?

Advances in technology now provide invaluable resources and tools for educators at all levels. These tools—and the data they provide—can be harnessed by educators to inform daily instructional practices to increase academic rigor and growth, enabling students of all abilities to enjoy learning, unlock their potential, and achieve proficiency. Learn new ways to use rich, interactive adaptive learning systems to accelerate personalized learning for all students in the common-core era. See how data from multiple measures of assessment are used to make informed decisions, assign personalized content with instantaneous feedback, identify instructional interventions, and help educators to create a personalized learning environment for all students.

Presenter: Sharnell S. Jackson, president, Data-Driven Innovations Consulting, Inc. Moderator: Tim Hudson, senior director of curriculum design, DreamBox Learning

Education Week is serving only as the host for this presentation. The content was created by the sponsor. The opinions expressed in this webinar are those of the sponsor and do not reflect the opinion of or constitute an endorsement by Editorial Projects in Education or any of its publications.

Registration is required to attend this event. Please register now.

13 FREE Web Tools Students and Teachers Should Know About

According to a posting by Katrina Schwartz on July 8, 2013 on KQED Mind/Shift, Adam Bellow, founder of EduClipper, and Steve Dembo, Online Community Manager of Discovery Education at the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) conference this year shared some of their favorite apps.

Check out this blog article 13 Free Web Tools Students and Teachers Should Know About. 

Oh we so like FREE!

Free Webinar from CHADD - DSM-5 & ADHD : New Diagnostic Guidelines - July 10th 3 - 4 PM

	Who:		Mary Solanto, PhD
	When:		Wednesday, July 10, 2013,  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Eastern time)
	What:		DSM-5 & ADHD: New Diagnostic Guidelines

 

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is here! ‘So what?’- you say.  Well, as the saying goes, “the devil is in the details."

The DSM-5 is the latest edition of the manual doctors and mental health professionals use to diagnose mental health conditions like ADHD, depression, anxiety, autism and others. That means the guidelines for determining if you or someone you love has ADHD have changed!  That’s big news!

These are just a few examples of questions that the new DSM-5 changes may prompt:

• “I’m an adult with ADHD and have been struggling with it for years.  What do the new guidelines mean for an adult like me?
• “My child has Autism, and for years I was told he can’t be diagnosed with ADHD, too.  Now his therapist says he can have both. I’m confused.  Which one is it?
• “My child is 12 years old.  If she had ADHD, she would have been diagnosed by now, right?”

Psychologist, Mary Solanto will join us on July 10, 2013 to explain what the new ADHD guidelines mean for you and your family.   

Pre-registration is required for this free chat.

Please click above to pre-register for the chat. Follow the instructions on that page to participate. This is an online webinar with audio and video streaming. Dr. Solanto will give a brief presentation on the DSM and the new diagnostic criteria for ADHD and will then answer questions submitted by chat participants. 

 
About the Expert
Mary Solanto, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and director of the ADHD Center in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.  Dr. Solanto’s research on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with ADHD, the effects of psychostimulants, and characteristics of the subtypes of ADHD has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Happy FOURTH OF JULY!

 

Happy Fourth of July -----   Happy Independence Day!   Yes, this is the day we told Great Britain and its King ----- we declare independence!

Fireworks in Boston

Here are some interesting facts about the Fourth and some links to more facts and activities:

The Fourth of July was not declared a NATIONAL holiday until 1941.

The stars on the original American flag were in a circle so all those rebellious Colonies would appear equal.

The Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 men from 13 colonies.

The only one to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th was the first signature, John Hancock, it took another month to get the other signatures.

The American Pyrotechnics Association (APA) estimates that more than 14,000 fireworks displays light up U.S. skies each Fourth of July.

Events that have occurred on the Fourth of July:
     Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond (1845)
     Beach Boys' "I Get Around" reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts (1964)
     Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (1966)
     Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on the Fourth.   
        Adams and Jefferson died on the same day within hours of each other in 1826.

The first official Fourth of July was held at the White House in 1801.

Approximately 150 million hot dogs are consumed on this day.

The number of Americans who will spend the holiday at other people's homes is approximately 45 million (this figure varies depending on which site you are looking at).

There are more than 30 towns nationwide that have the word "Liberty" in their names.

Check out these sites:

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Independence-Day.shtml

http://www.military.com/independence-day/fun-facts-about-the-fourth.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100704-fourth-of-july-google-doodle-facts-nation-july-4-fourth/