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OATAG 2018 Conference
Bridging Gaps
Addressing Excellence GAPS: Promoting Equity and Excellence in the 21st Century

The 2018 OATAG Conference was held October 20, 2018 at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon.  The Keynote Speaker  was ​Jonathan Plucker, PhD, President elect of National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC).  ​Dr. Plucker is a prominent education policy and talent development scholar, and the inaugural Julian C. Stanley Professor of Talent Development at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a joint appointment at the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) and School of Education.

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• Conference Program, which includes a brief description of all presentations and the presenter biography
  
• Presentations that have been provided to us to share marked with a *. 
  

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Conference Program

Keynote address

• *Dr. Jonathan Plucker - Addressing Excellence Gaps: Promoting Equity and Excellence in the 21st Century

Breakout session 1

• *Dr. Jonathan Plucker - Creativity Through the Magic of Constraints
• Jim Libby - Where Are We Ever Going To Use This?
• Aurora Remember Holzman - Intensity and School Stress
• Freda Bax - Giftedness and Developmental Asynchrony 

Breakout session 2

• *Dr. Jonathan Plucker - What's Your School's Talent Development Plan?
• *Diana M. Fisher - Teaching Students to Build Models of Dynamic Feedback Systems
• *Erin Rodriquez - Middle School TAG Student Book Club
• *Beth LaDuca - Trends in the Performance of Advanced Students on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)

breakout session 3

• Kimberly Herder - Hands-on Real-World Problem-Solving Opportunities for the Gifted, Talented, and Exceptional
• Jennifer Wyld - STEM-ulating Activities on Human Ecology
• Aurora Remember Holtzman - Embracing Intensity
• *Judy Smith - Finding the Uniqueness Inside the Gifted Label

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