CONNECTING TO THEIR FUTURE
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN
THEY ALREADY KNOW?
#LE2018
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FALL
2018
TOUR
10/11 - West Virginia Association for the Gifted and Talented
10/15-16 - Ohio Association for Gifted Children
10/19-20 - Gifted Association of Missouri
10/ 27 - The Grayson School CogniCon
11/3 - Orange County Council for the Gifted
11/6 - CITES Learning Edge Conference
11/9 - Maine Educators of the Gifted and Talented
11/15-18 - NAGC Annual Convention
11/30 - Rutgers Gifted Education Conference
12/12 - Bucks County Intermediate Unit
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ALABAMA HAWAII MASSACHUSETTS NEW MEXICO SOUTH DAKOTA
ALASKA IDAHO MICHIGAN NEW YORK TENNESSEE
ARIZONA ILLINOIS MINNESOTA NORTH CAROLINA TEXAS
ARKANSAS INDIANA MISSISSIPPI NORTH DAKOTA UTAH
CALIFORNIA IOWA MISSOURI OHIO VERMONT
COLORADO KANSAS MONTANA OKLAHOMA VIRGINIA
CONNECTICUT KENTUCKY NEBRASKA OREGON WASHINGTON
DELAWARE LOUISIANA NEVADA PENNSYLVANIA WEST VIRGINIA
FLORIDA MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE RHODE ISLAND WISCONSIN
GEORGIA MARYLAND NEW JERSEY SOUTH CAROLINA WYOMING
FIND
YOUR
October 4, 1957
September 12, 1962
July 20, 1969
CREATIVITY
INNOVATION
ENRICHMENT
ACCELERATION
THINKING SKILLS
PROBLEM SOLVING
CRITICAL THINKING
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
????
The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil
We won’t experience
100 years of progress
in the 21st century
— it will be more like
20,000 years of progress.
AnalogAnalog
DIGITAL
But…WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN
THEY ALREADY KNOW?
Let’s find out what
you already know.
Let’s find out what
you already know.
So I can give you
more of the same
thing.
Let’s find out what
you already know.
So I can give you
something new
and different.
THE NATIONAL
RESEARCH CENTER
ON THE GIFTED
AND TALENTED
The University of Connecticut
The University of Georgia
The University of Virginia
Yale University
The University of Georgia
Why Not Let High Ability Students
Start School in January?
The Curriculum Compacting Study
Sally M. Reis
Karen L. Westberg
Jonna Kulikowich
Florence Caillard
Thomas Hébert
Jonathan Plucker
Jeanne H. Purcell
John B. Rogers
Julianne M. Smist
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
July 1993
Research Monograph 93106
NRC
G/T
Why Not Let High
Ability Students
Start School in
January?
The Curriculum Compacting Study
REGULAR
CURRICULUM
ADVANCED
CHOICES
STRENGTHS
YEAR
Know it All
“It is impossible
for a man to
learn what he
thinks he already
knows.”
Epictetus, Discourses, Book II, ch. 17
“If you end your training now —
if you choose
the quick and easy path
as Vader did —
you will become an agent of evil.”
SMART ≠ +
Know it AllLEARN
People who don’t ask questions
remain clueless throughout their lives.
IQ = Curiosity + Effort
(von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)
Stay hungry.
Stay foolish.
It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.
It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.
STOP!
Collaborate
& Listen
When I die,
I want the people
I did group projects with
to lower me into my grave
so they can let me down
one last time.
FASTER
•Limited familiarity with the
research on acceleration
•Philosophy that children must be
kept with their age group
•Belief that acceleration hurries
children out of childhood
•Fear that acceleration hurts
children socially
•Political concerns about equity
•Worry that other students will be
offended if one child is accelerated.
2004
bit.ly/2018acceleration
FASTER
DEEPER
(Renzulli, 1977)
TYPE III
INDEPENDENT OR SMALL GROUP INVESTIGATIONS
PRODUCTS AND/OR PERFORMANCES
TYPE I
GENERAL
EXPLORATORY
ACTIVITIES
TYPE II
METHODOLOGICAL
TRAINING /
HOW-TO ACTIVITIES
(Renzulli, 1977)
OPENING NEW DOORS
AnalogAnalog
DIGITAL
THERE
IS NO
DONE
THERE
IS NO
DONE
The
journey
of a
thousand
miles
begins
with a
single
step.
Know it All
_______, I am your father.
If you
build it,
_______
will come.
If you
build it,
_______
will come.
If you
build it,
_______
will come.
If you
build it,
_______
will come.
hehe
MANDELA
EFFECT
WHO WAS THE
FIRST PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED
STATES OF
AMERICA?
John Hanson
1781-1782
George Washington
1789-1797
QUESTION
EVERYTHING
QUESTION
EVERYTHING
Assign
projects
that
flummox
perplex (someone) greatly;
bewilder
flummox
verb
Cheese Mountain
FACT
FINDING
FACT
FINDING
Disney Wienies
IDEA
GENERATING
IDEA
GENERATING
Metaphors have a
way of holding the
most truth in the
least space.
- Orson Scott Card
1.39 Billion
pounds
900,303
cubic yards
SOLUTION
FINDING
SOLUTION
FINDING
Each person needs the skills to
make some kind of contribution
to a changing world
with a lot of problems
that need solving.
James Paul Gee
We can no
longer afford
to fail
to imagine.
“We need to
fail down here
so we don’t
fail up there.”
@brianhousand
#NASASocial
11.26.2018
FAILURE 

isn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull
Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE
GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION
I, ______________________________

GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO: 

________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
E. Paul TorranceE. Paul Torrance
LEARN TO FREE YOURSELF FROM THE
EXPECTATIONS OF OTHERS AND TO WALK AWAY
FROM THE GAMES THEY IMPOSE ON YOU.
NO ONE - not Walt, not Steve, not the people of Pixar -
ever achieved creative success by clinging to what used to work.
PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done. 

Time’s up on standard operating procedures. 

______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done. 

Time’s up on standard operating procedures. 

______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done. 

Time’s up on standard operating procedures. 

______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done. 

Time’s up on standard operating procedures. 

______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change. 

Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change. 

Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change. 

Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change. 

Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
Please excuse _____________________ from the way
things have always been done. 

Time’s up on standard operating procedures. 

______________________ admits he/she doesn’t have the
answers. So please excuse _____________________ from
the expectations that they have any of it figured out.
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
(YOUR NAME HERE)
PERMISSION SLIP
The solution is out there. But only if you permit
_____________________ to try, and probably fail and then
to keep trying. The process won’t be neat. Instead it will
be scary, and messy, and well, weird. But that will be
courageous. And awesome. And the start of change. 

Signature _____________________
(YOUR NAME HERE)
A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
JOYOUS
CURIOSITY
IMAGINATION
PASSION
CREATIVITY
STOP
GO
TO INFINITY AND BEYONDTO INFINITY AND BEYOND
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