The mission of the Alabama Association for Gifted Children is to provide leadership, and support to assist educators, parents, and community partners in meeting the educational affective needs of gifted children and youth in Alabama.
Gifted Education Month
AAGC is happy to celebrate January as Gifted Education Month (GEM)! During the month we are asking all gifted educators, students, and parents to work together to raise awareness of the importance of gifted education.
During the month of January we have some wonderful activities for you and your students to promote GEM! Click here for the details!
You will NOT want to miss our Poster Contest for students AND teachers - check it out here!
Be sure to check out our new GEM t-shirt at https://www.bonfire.com/gem-1/
On October 15, 2020, several awards were given out to our fantastic students around our state who created videos demonstrating what gifted means to them. We will be sharing the winners on this page! Enjoy!
The winner of our Gifted Student Video Contest in the 2020 AAGC Gifted Student - Individual Video Winner is Myah Motton. Myah is an 8th Grade at Austin Junior High School, Decatur City Schools, Mary Sue Fleischauer, Gifted Specialist
Conference 2020 recordings have been uploaded to this website! We emailed the instruction on how to access them. If you did not receive them, email Audrey Peacock, our Executive Director. This was sent only to conference attendees. Already a member? Login with your AAGC credentials to take advantage of our webinars for parents and teacher! | Welcome to AAGC!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. |
PD Webinar Coming January 19
Interdisciplinary Activities to Foster Global Citizenship
Discover hands-on activities to help gifted students think critically and creatively about global challenges to the planet and human well-being, and their roles as global citizens. Presented activities build skills in social studies, science and mathematics while introducing concepts of sustainability, resource use and more. All can be adapted for distance learning.
Abby Watkins - awatkins@populationconnection.org
Abby is an Education Program Associate and coordinates the Population Education workshops, staff trips, and program outreach in the southeastern part of the U.S. She leads workshops throughout the States and is involved with the World of 7 Billion student video contest. Abby previously served as the Population Education Fellow. Outside the office, Abby enjoys listening to podcasts, traveling, and hiking through national parks.
These webinars are available only to current AAGC members. Join now at https://alabamagifted.org/Join-us