Concurrent 60 min

TED-style Talks for the Gifted Education Practitioner Community

Saturday, November 15, 2025

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM ET

Location: Convention Center, 406

Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary, Professionals

Anne N. Rinn

Professor and Department Chair
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas, United States
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Sakhavat Mammadov

Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States
Karen Rambo-Hernandez

Professor
Texas A&M
College Station, Texas, United States
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Matt Makel

Professor
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Short Description: TED-style talks engage audiences with “ideas worth spreading”. In this research-to-practice session, 3 recent NAGC award winning scholars share some ideas they believe are worth spreading to more schools and classrooms. Come learn about how non-researchers can be critical consumers of research, how average is the average classroom?, and the role of schools in student well-being.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will learn ideas that capture the attention and energy of award winning gifted education researchers.
Attendees will be able to apply components of these ideas to help them better accomplish their goals within gifted education.
Using these ideas, attendees will be able to assess alignment of the current policies and practices in their own schools with the ideas shared.