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But we can move beyond the present.
Why?
Here is something small...
It could be much larger!
Here is some context. Provide some common ground.
Or something from the present, that we should look beyond.
We all are stakeholders in educating our gifted students.  It's not just the gifted educators, parents of the gifted or researchers revealing issues about the gifted.  Our world is counting on our different thinkers to connect ideas, invent and perhaps even "change our world"  Bill shared how important this is through his life story.  ~Take home message from Bill Nye, the Science Guy (Opening Session) 
Talking Points from the 2011 NAGC Conference
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So...
Let's ask all those involved with teaching our gifted students about their experiences, their training, their "why" they teach gifted students.  Let's find out our different perspectives, then begin the dialog on how best to serve our gifted learners. The metaphor of photography is a great starting point to work through this issue.  ~Kathee Jones (Colorado Gifted & Talented Assoc.)
What is differentiation? "It is the deliberate adaptation and modification of the curriculum, instructional process and the assessments to respond to the needs of the gifted learner." ~Dr. van Tassell-Baska
"Teachers of the gifted need to continue pushing the boundaries, just like we are asking our students to do." ~Dr. van Tassell-Baska
"The role of the teacher must change.  The teacher must be comfortable with ambiguity and must assist students in posing questions for which there are no predetermined answers." ~Dr. Kimberly Chandler (William & Mary College)
Student research projects need to be real world, have multiple points of view, have researchable & substantial information available and be a worthy topic that involves the student. ~William & Mary College, the Integrated Curriculum Model.
Rethinking the role of the Gifted Specialist session highlighted how both the Specialist & a veteran teacher used their combined strengths to not only benefit all students in the regular education but also to raise the complexity of the curriculum to reach the gifted learners in the classroom. ~Loudon Public Schools
"Students must feel that the task/school is personally meaningful that is tied to their identity, personally interesting and integral to the student's vision of the future." ~Dr. Sylvia Rimm  
"Give the students specific, developmental compliments so they know what they did well." ~Dr. Sylvia Rimm
"Keep the door open to identify students who show their strengths later because talent in some domains aren't revealed until later." ~based on research by Dr. Subotnik, APA & Northwestern.

"Differentiation is a sequence of common sense decisions made by teachers with a student-first orientation." ~Adam Hoppe, 2010 (graduate student)
"Differentiation needs to be absolutely clear about the learning destination, use high quality curriculum and a persistence in knowing just where your students are in relation to the destination all along the way. " ~Carol Ann Tomlinson
Curriculum races are not brain friendly.  It's about helping students see the meaning in the information they are learning.  ~Carol Ann Tomlinson
"There is a relationship between the teacher's ability to manage a set of complex activities in the classroom and their ability to teach intellectually challenging material." ~Carol Ann Tomlinson.
Help your students understand how to be both flexible and adaptable as the situation requires. "When I hear them say that they tried and learned from their trying (without whining), then I know that I have praised them for their efforts and not their intelligence." ~Angie French
Google has a multitude of tools available (for free): Google Calendar, Drawing, Goggles, Maps & Lit Trips, Art, Patents, Books, Finance, What do you Love? Voice Search.  Even posters for teachers at Google Educators ~Brian Housand,  Google Geek Squad 
"As the teacher, I'm the resource, not the source." ~Ginger Lewman (AHA)
"Project based learning causes the student to bring themselves into the learning.  It's messy." ~Ginger Lewman (AHA)