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Join Karen Brown, Director of Gifted & Accelerated programs for an informative discussion on SUSD programming. In this session you will learn about the programming options offered in the Scottsdale Unified School District for gifted learners from PreK through high school.

Parenting a gifted child can feel like walking in a minefield. In this session, Karen Brown will guide parents toward understanding the characteristics of gifted learners and how these impact the learning process. Come ride the roller coaster with us!

For many gifted learners, "arguing" represents an attempt to better understand or control their environment. In this session, Dr. Aimee Sulit wil help parents identify barriers to positive communication as well as strategies for support. Families will walk away with understanding the five underlying goals of misbahvior and learn specific strategies to increase their child's healthy self-management to REDIRECT with love and balance.

Join Dr. Laura Wingers and Dr. Beth Richter as they unpack the joys and challenges of parenting a gifted child during a pandemic. In this session, they will share ways to manage stress and improve mental health and well-being, including avoiding “thinking traps”, practicing gratitude, engaging mindfulness, balancing work and play, and understanding grief and loss.

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All parents want their children to be successful. But parents of gifted children often feel an added pressure to unleash their child’s “full potential.” Colin Seale will give parents of gifted children powerful, but practical tools to understand the harms of the “full potential” myth and practical tools to move towards a more healthy, hopeful, and happy path to set children up to excel.

Cindy Brown will share her proprietary G.A.M.E. of life methodology to support parents in empowering their children to achieve their greatest potential.

Strategies Parent will Develop:

Grit: Strong problem solving strategies

Attitude: Ability to embrace mistakes and setbacks through curiosity & confidence

Mindset: Coping skills

Emotions: Open and authentic emotional conversations

What is a good question – or rather, how can we pose and present good questions to our children that will challenge them to think deeply and express and share their learning in their own unique way? Join author and public speaker Erik Francis to learn how to inquire minds with good questions that will develop our children’s talent and thinking into personal expertise.

Critical and creative thinking skills do NOT have to be taught exclusively at school. Join Dr. Jason McIntosh as he provides practical tips for encouraging critical and creative thinking at home, in the car, or even on the playground. Participants will leave with a toolbox of strategies they can begin using immediately.