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Get Your Get Smart Full Program

Hot off the virtual press, the full Get Smart! program is now available for you to download and share. Our 14th Annual Fall Gifted Education Institute in Santa Fe, NM manifests as your best professional development opportunity of the year in just one week!

Get Smart Poster

Click this image to download the full program of the NMAG Fall Institute, October 19-20, 2018



Your own Q: Special Agent Dr. Jackie Gerstein at our Get Smart Fall Institute

We know you are looking forward to meeting New Mexico’s “top operatives” at this month’s 14th Annual NMAG Fall Gifted Education Institute, “Get Smart!” It starts with Excellence Gap Expert, Dr. Jonathan Plucker, President-elect of NAGC’s governing board.

At the conference you can also connect with your own tech-savvy Agent Q, Dr. Jackie Gerstein, to learn about new online opportunities for building student agency in these two breakout sessions:

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Save the Date 2018 Gifted Education Fall Institute

This year’s NMAG Fall Institute will be in Santa Fe, October 19-20, 2018. Save the date in your calendar and sign up for our mailing list for specific updates.

You can expect stellar training opportunities, connections with cultural and educational organizations, and the roll-out of the revised Gifted Technical Assistance Manual that our members have been working hard on all year.



Get Ready for NMAG’s 13th Annual Fall Gifted Institute

The conference is just around the corner and NMAG is ready for New Mexico’s teachers, administrators and parents. Are you interested in learning about and advocating for gifted education?

Big Top Conference Poster 2017

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Under the Big Top

Come see the greatest show on gifted!

October 20-21, 2017

New Mexico Highlands Rio Rancho Center

1700 Grande Blvd SE #100, Rio Rancho, NM 87124

Keynote Speaker: Jaime Castellano

Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Jaime A. Castellano, one of the nation’s leading authorities on the identification, assessment, recruitment, and retention of low-income, culturally and linguistically different gifted students. Dr. Castellano has particular expertise and success in working with school districts across the nation to increase the number of Hispanic/Latino students, Native American students, as well as English language learners in gifted education programs.

Castellano is an award-winning principal and author, as well as a noted researcher and scholar in gifted education. He has written and edited four books on understanding our most able students from diverse backgrounds, written and/or edited multiple chapters, articles, and monographs in the field. His 2011 publication: Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students from Diverse Backgrounds was awarded the Legacy Award for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the field of Gifted Education. He also serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Advanced Academics (JAA), Journal for the Education of the Gifted (JEG), Gifted Child Today (GCT), and Roeper Review. Continue reading



Spring 2017 Newsletter

Introducing the Spring 2017 Newsletter from the New Mexico Association for the Gifted.

Our Farmington-based NMAG Newsletter Chair, Jessica Carlisle, has compiled the newsletter for our members across the state.

Contents include:

  • 2017 Legislative Update: Bills Sponsored by Rep. Christine Trujillo
  • Membership Info and Demographics
  • Opportunities for Gifted Kids
  • NMAG Board Member Profiles
  • Save the Date NMAG Fall Institute, October 20-21, 2017

Click here to download your electronic copy as a PDF.



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