Take a deep dive into Emily Kircher Morris's book, "Teaching Twice-Exceptional Learners in Today's Classroom". Participants will learn how to identify twice-exceptional learners, design strengths-based instruction, meet the unique social and emotional needs of twice-exceptional learners, motivate this unique population, set effective IEP goals and student-led micro goals, and coaching and goal setting around executive functioning skills. Participants will walk away with strategies that they can immediately implement in their classroom setting to help twice-exceptional learners be successful.
This course will offer 8 hours of recertification credit and can be used towards a gifted endorsement.
Date: June 16, 18, 23 & 25, 2025
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, AZ
Cost: $75
Facilitator: Vanessa Hill
Vanessa has been an educator for over twenty years. She is a gifted specialist who taught in Title 1 schools for a decade before becoming Amphitheater Public Schools Gifted Education Coordinator. Vanessa has two twice exceptional children of her own, so understands the unique needs of this population on a very personal level. She has presented at the AAGT Annual Conference, the NAGC Annual Convention, and the ADE Teacher's Institute and Leading Change Conference. Vanessa facilitates professional learning experiences for gifted and general classroom educators. Vanessa is the 2019 AAGT Gifted Educator of the Year, Raytheon Leaders in Education Award Finalist 2021, and the 2024 NAGC National Gifted Coordinator Award Recipient.
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