PARENT FORUM: Fostering Habits of Success: Pack First for the Journey

Parent Forum
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Ottoson
Cafeteria                        

7-8:30 p.m.For parents of children grades  K-12

Fostering Habits of Success: Pack First for
the Journey

As
another semester begins, parents and teachers are awash in the swirl of
escalated assignments, extra curricular activities, student assessment, digital
devices and just the right fashion accessories. Have we perhaps overlooked the
social and emotional components necessary for optimal student growth and
wellbeing? This session will focus on the ways that both parents and teachers
can assist bright children to develop habits that will lead them to becoming
life long learners, effective problem solvers, capable communicators and
well-adjusted, caring and contributing citizens of the world. Participants will
be given opportunities to ask questions and reflect on examples drawn from both
home and classroom settings as they join in a conversation about the ways to
best promote the development of the skills necessary for a satisfying and
productive life.

PRESENTER:  Diana
Reeves is a parent, teacher of third graders at the Gordon School in East
Providence, RI university instructor, education consultant, advocate for gifted
children, and past recipient of the Presidential Award for Teaching Math and
Science. She has served as President and Chairperson of the Massachusetts
Association for Gifted Education and as a co-chair of its legislative action
committee. As a Parent director on the National Association for Gifted Children
board, and as the co-chair of the NAGC Parent Advisory Committee, Diana helped
develop NAGC’s Mile Marker Series, received the NAGC Community Service Award
2009, and co-authored an NAGC sponsored e-book on forming G/T parent  advocacy groups.  She is a SENG certified parent group
facilitator, and has run many “MAGE” discussion 
groups.  In the last year, Diana
has presented workshops at NAGC in Denver, at the “White Privilege Conference
in Seattle”,  the  New Teachers Conference in San Jose and the
Alabama Association For Gifted State Conference in Birmingham.  At each of these sessions, the social and
emotional as well as academic needs of gifted students and their parents and
teachers were embedded within topics specific to differing audiences.