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The mission of the Alabama Association for Gifted Children is to provide advocacy leadership, and support to assist educators, parents, and community partners in meeting the educational and affective needs of gifted children and youth in Alabama.


The Alabama Legislature are in session now.  Be sure to contact your elected officials in Montgomery.  They are the ones who decide on the education budget. We need everyone to continue to be a champion for our gifted students.  To let your elected officials know the importance of gifted education, go to our page at  https://alabamagifted.org/advocacy  Our gifted students deserve to learn something new every single day.





Parent Webinar Series 

April 9, 2024, 6:00 pm CT

Media, media, everywhere: How to help your child navigate the media they are consuming and creating


Children are inundated with media every day. We'll examine how parents can help teach their children media literacy, which is examining the different types of media consumed, understanding the messages conveyed, and understanding why the media was created. PBS LearningMedia offers several resources to help parents understand the world of media literacy and how to look at media critically. Parents will leave with a better understanding of how to help their children navigate what they are seeing and what they are creating.

Meet Tracey Carter

After teaching for 17 years, Tracey Carter began working in the educationdepartment at Alabama Public Television. She is an education specialist at APT and works primarily with those involved in K-12 education. While in the classroom, Tracey was a middle school Gifted Specialist and Language Arts teacher. She is also the mom of two boys who are identified as gifted. One is a freshman in high school and the other is a freshman in college. She lives in Shelby County with her husband, two boys, and two dogs.

Also, stay tuned for a special guest, Tammie Stewart, from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. She will speak on scholarships for gifted students.

Register at https://alabamagifted.org/event-5523425 

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Zoom link will be emailed the day before the webinar.


PD Webinar Series 

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 6:00 pm CT

Little Miss Gifted's Favorite Things!


Join us for a can't-miss webinar featuring energetic and passionate Little Miss Gifted. In this webinar, Stephanie Higgs will share her very favorite strategies and resources for gifted learners, including everything from creativity and arts integration to differentiation and social-emotional supports. Stephanie's passionate and dynamic approach to sharing strategies and easy-to-love resources will leave you turning your lesson plans upside down to implement these new strategies with your students the very next day!    

Stephanie Higgs, best known as @littlemissgifted on Instagram, is an award-winning, Nashville-living gifted educator and differentiation coach, here to infuse a little sparkle and shine into your gifted education classroom and curriculum! Stephanie is a quick thinking, fast talking, and passionate gifted educator, differentiation coach, and international PD presenter. Her sessions are always filled with immediate, easy-to-implement, FUN takeaways you'll be eager to try with your students the very next day. Her favorite humans are teachers, and she's here to love and serve you however she can. She'll be your #1 hype girl as you strive to better yourself in the field of gifted education. She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes, so prepare to leave her webinar feeling energized, equipped, and empowered to give your gifted curriculum a glow up during the last few months of the school year!

Register at https://alabamagifted.org/event-5666965 


Zoom link will be emailed to you the day before her webinar.


Gifted advocacy takes a year-round effort.   We made great strides this last legislative year but we are far from the much needed funds to make full-funding a reality.  Share what is happening in your classroom on all your social media outlets.  Reach out to your elected officials.  Until gifted education is fully funded, we will continue striving for that goal!  Go here, to find out what you can do!


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AAGC is pleased to announce two monthly podcasts.  Have you listened yet?

https://anchor.fm/aagcgiftedchat/

 AAGC Gifted Chat Podcast  is a 15-20 minute conversation with leaders in the field of gifted discussing topics important to them. Then after you listen to the podcast, join the conversation on FaceBook at https://www.facebook.com/AAGCGiftedChat. Each Gifted Chat episode will have a separate post on FB with questions to continue the conversation and share ideas and resources.


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https://anchor.fm/thinklikea

Think Like a....where we will explore different professions to see what it takes to be successful.  We hope you will join us each month to listen to a conversation with a professional in a career.  We will learn what skills are required to be successful and education requirements, and what you really do in this career.

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