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		<title>Keep Your Child&#8217;s Brain Challenged With Gifted and Academic Summer Camps</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/05/14/keep-your-childs-brain-challenged-with-gifted-and-academic-summer-camps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets keep our kids challenged this summer with enriching, exploratory and developmental camps!  Whether you are staying in the DFW area or traveling to the coast, there are camps everywhere to keep those  minds working and sharp. Here&#8217;s a snapshot of camps&#8230;. Don&#8217;t forget to check out our local CGA MOSAIC summer camps &#8212; open to all kids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7388&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fair v Equal and Guilt v Shame</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/05/14/fair-v-equal-and-guilt-v-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twice exceptional]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read this post following a discussion with my kids about the difference between &#8220;Fair&#8221; and &#8220;Equal.&#8221;  Wanted to pass it along to you&#8230; ORIGINAL POST FROM: christinefonseca.com via Fair vs. Equal and Guilt vs. Shame. Fair vs. Equal and Guilt vs. Shame I wrestle with guilt and shame. They are very similar, but yet very different as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7434&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting the Needs of Intense Adults, Online and Off</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/05/09/meeting-the-needs-of-intense-adults-online-and-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conferences on gifted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social & Emotional Needs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting the Needs of Intense Adults, Online and Off. As published on &#8220;An Intense Life&#8221; by Lisa Rivera What are your social-emotional needs? Intellectual needs? Creative needs? Physical needs? Twice-exceptional needs? Not your children’s. Yours. Are you meeting them? And does the very idea make you squirm with discomfort? (Sure, my kids are gifted, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7395&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Geniuses Think &#124; The Creativity Post</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/05/07/how-geniuses-think-the-creativity-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Identification of gifted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How Geniuses Think &#124; The Creativity Post.  Click here for original link. How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced &#8220;Mona Lisa,&#8221; as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7381&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chess Tournament in Denton</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/05/02/chess-tournament-in-denton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Alexey Root]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DENTON HS OFFERS LIBRARY CHESS TOURNAMENT Middle school and high school students can play in a non-rated chess tournament at the North Branch Library (3020 North Locust, Denton, TX 76209) on Saturday, May 19. Registration is at 9:45 a.m. and the first round is at 10 a.m. The tournament will conclude by 6 p.m. All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7377&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kimberly Pope reflects on TAGT 2011</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/04/26/kimberly-pope-reflects-on-tagt-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgapresident</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences on gifted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scholarships for educators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimberly Pope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1)      List the seminar you attended: Infusing Creativity into the Standard Curriculum 2)    Provide a brief summary of the part of the session that you found particularly helpful in your current role working with gifted students.  This session focused on infusing creativity with our GT students. We spoke about getting the students up and out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7023&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Myths of Giftedness</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/04/26/myths-of-giftedness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeanne Wray]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Information provided by Jeanne Wray, CGA Campus Rep for CHS. “Competing with myths about the social and emotional development of gifted students” Read the full article by Tracy L. Cross, as printed in Gifted Child Today Summer 2002. Purpose of article: Cross hopes that by discussing these myths, gifted students will be better served and “barriers to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7050&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Art meet the needs of academically gifted kids as well as artistically gifted kids?</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/04/26/can-art-meet-the-needs-of-academically-gifted-kids-as-well-as-artistically-gifted-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Communications</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elementary school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twice exceptional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Ricciardelli]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FACT: Studies have shown that the arts can significantly advance gifted students&#8217; academic and creative abilities and cognitive functioning (e.g., Hetland, 2000; Seeley, 1994; Walders, 2002; and Willet, 1992). This is a strong rationale for making the arts an essential feature of gifted education. Goertz (2002) envisions art instruction as the &#8220;fourth R&#8221; in education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7261&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for fun summer enrichment?  Check out MOSIAC for grades 4-8</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/04/26/looking-for-fun-summer-enrichment-check-out-mosiac-for-grades-4-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MOSAIC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking to capture your child&#8217;s imagination? share an already existing passion? create a love of learning a new skill? challenge your child? find a safe, fun, energetic summer opportunity? enrich your child&#8217;s academic and social experience? Register now for summer camps at MOSAIC.  Many of our classes have already filled, and some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7354&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Todd Kettler, Director of Advanced Academics, to join UNT faculty in Fall 2012.</title>
		<link>http://coppellgifted.org/2012/04/26/todd-kettler-director-of-advanced-academics-to-join-unt-faculty-in-fall-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Chappell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Kettler, the Director of Advanced Academics, is leaving CISD to follow his career goal as a research professor in gifted education at the conclusion of this school year.  He will be joining the University of North Texas faculty in the department of educational psychology as an expert in gifted education.  UNT currently offers a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coppellgifted.org&#038;blog=6378573&#038;post=7330&#038;subd=coppellgifted&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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