Schedule
Sunday, May 19, 2024
1:00 – 3:30 Registration / Check-in
3:30 – 4:00 Welcome
4:00 – 5:00 Opening Keynote (Malik Henfield)
5:00 – 5:30 Response and Q&A
5:30 – 7:00 Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 Panel: “What is the Future of Gifted Education and Talent Development?” (Camilla Benbow, Linda Brody, Dante Dixson, Dawn Frazier, David Lubinski, and Joyce VanTassel-Baska with Carolyn Callahan as moderator)
8:00 – 9:00 Dessert Reception
Monday, May 20, 2024
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 Julian C. Stanley Distinguished Lecture - Current Mindsets in Gifted Education and Talent Development: What Happened to Talent Discovery? (Susan Assouline)
9:30 – 9:45 Response and Q&A
9:45 – 10:15 Group Photo and Refreshment Break
10:15 – 11:15 Concurrent 1 – Submitted Papers (~5 sessions of 2 papers each)
11:30 – 12:30 Concurrent 2 – Invited Feature Sessions
- Rena Subotnik (Making the Implicit Explicit: Insider Knowledge and Talent Development)
- Sally Reis (Using Strength-based Teaching Strategies for 2e/ASD Students)
- Frank Worrell (Opportunities Provided, Opportunities Taken: Proving Early Talent Development Opportunities is Critical for Diversifying Gifted Education)
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 3:15 Concurrent 3 - Submitted (~5 sessions of 3 papers each)
3:15 – 3:45 Refreshment Break
3:45 – 4:45 Keynote: Gifted Education Research from the Economists’ Perspective: What Have We Learned? (David Card and Laura Giuliano)
4:45 – 5:00 Response and Q&A
5:00 – 7:00 Posters and Dinner Reception
7:00 – 8:30 Panel on Recent Foundation Reports
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 Concurrent 4 – Submitted Papers (~5 sessions of 2 papers each)
9:15 – 10:15 Concurrent 5 – Invited Feature Sessions
- Paula Olszewski-Kubilius (Research on Domain Specific Abilities and Trajectories: Implications for Practice with Gifted Students)
- Jacob Michaelson (Building a Community for Neuroscience-oriented Research on Twice-exceptionality)
- Franzis Preckel (Need for Cognition and Its Potential Role Within Talent Development)
10:15 – 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45 – 12:15 Concurrent 6 - Submitted Papers (~5 sessions of 3 papers each)
12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Closing Keynote (Po-Shen Loh)
2:00 – 2:30 Response and Q&A
