4. 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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16. We encourage our employees,
in addition to their regular projects,
to spend 20% of their time working on
what they think will most benefit Google.
This empowers them to be more creative
and innovative.
22. 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)
28. 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
29. 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.
32. 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.
34. 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.
35.
36. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION
Who are you waiting for to tell you it’s okay?
Your boss?
Your mother?
Yoda?
GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION.
No one is going to give it to you.
37. GRAB YOUR OWN PERMISSION
I, ______________________________
GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION TO:
________________________________
________________________________
________________________________
40. LEARN TO FREE YOURSELF FROM THE
EXPECTATIONS OF OTHERS AND TO WALK AWAY
FROM THE GAMES THEY IMPOSE ON YOU.
41. 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)
42. 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)
47. KNOWS WHAT YOU SEARCH
KNOWS WHAT YOU BROWSE
KNOWS WHAT YOU WATCH
KNOWS WHAT YOU PAUSE
KNOWS WHAT YOU SKIP
KNOWS WHAT YOU STOP WATCHING
KNOWS WHAT YOU WILL LIKE
KNOWS WHAT YOU BINGE
KNOWS YOU
59. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
PIXAR’S
PHILOSOPHY
60. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
GIFTED EDUCATION’S
PHILOSOPHY
61. The most creative people
are willing to work in the
shadow of uncertainty.
The most creative people
are willing to work in the
shadow of uncertainty.
63. 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.
79. Around here we don’t look
backwards for very long…
We keep moving forward,
opening up new doors and doing
new things because we’re
curious, and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.
!