TAGT Gifted + Equity Conference 2024

When is a circle not just a circle? The standard curriculum will cover important concepts like radius and diameter, but we can go beyond the standards by asking students important questions about how that curriculum intersects with their lived experiences. What if that circle described the distance between your house and the nearest healthy food options? The nearest hospital? Any time we give gifted students the opportunity to not just analyze the world as it is, but to use their knowledge to grapple with how the world ought to be, we explicitly permit them to not just be problem solvers, but to embrace their identity as problem finders. This intensive workshop provides educators the opportunity to discover with their students what’s funky about even the most seemingly cut-and-dry learning goals.