EVENTS
October 2024- “Gifted Writers: A Journey from Reluctance to Publishing”, AAGC, Alabama, USA
July 2024 - BetweenUs Podcast Nurturing Gifted Children- The Role of Parents, Educators and Policy Makers
In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of innovation, education, and societal impact. Gifted children often display remarkable abilities in intellectual pursuits, creativity, or leadership from a young age. However, realizing their full potential requires a concerted effort from parents, educators, and policymakers. Here's what you can look forward to: 1. Learning Strategies for Gifted Children 2. The Role of Parents 3. Educators as Facilitators 4. Policy Makers' Influence 5. Success Stories and Challenges Whether you're a parent, teacher, or policymaker, this episode is packed with insights and inspiration to help you support and champion the gifted children in your life.
July 2024 - The Gifted Mind, National Principals NAESP Conference, Tennessee, USA
Vidushi and Principal Garosi co-presented to a group of Principals from across the United States. They showcased their student writing growth, demonstrated strategies to create robust gifted programs, and improve the rigor of existing programs. They addressed questions and pain points experienced by educational leaders.
March 2024 - GAGC, Columbus, Georgia, USA
On Monday, March 4th 2024, Vidushi had the wonderful opportunity to present at the Georgia Association of Gifted Children (GAGC) conference in Columbus, Georgia. The session titled " Showcasing Gifted Students' Writing: Free Journals and Publishing Student Books" was an opportunity to share rigorous and divergent student writing. She shared strategies and provocations to elicit excellent writing, deep learning games and some charming examples from my classrooms. She was grateful for the generous reception from the participants with comments like "It was fabulous " and "I loved your seminar so much. You have a really energetic and fun style". The experience highlighted her cumulative work of 10 years as a Gifted and Talented teacher, and more recently a TAG testing administrator, and educator.
September 2024- Crafting Change: Innovative Strategies for Title 1 Gifted identification, NAGC Equity Symposium, USA
Vidushi shared her experience at two Title 1 schools, where she doubled the numbers of gifted students in an urban Atlanta school and increased multicultural representation by 82% in another. This virtual session highlighted practical strategies to make gifted programming and Talent Development models more equitable.
June 2024 -
Social and Emotional characteristics of Giftedness, Children First, Delhi India
Vidushi Chaudhry led an in-house training for the psychologists at Children First in New Delhi. They wanted to learn more about the gifted students they encounter in their therapeutic work. In a conversation spanning five hours, they asked some interesting questions like- 1. Are there any kinds of giftedness that cannot be assessed on a traditional test? Absolutely. How would you assess conflict resolution, empathy, curiosity, resilience or problem solving? Most tests don't. There are few or no formal assessments for a child outside K-12 education- think of children still working in agriculture or those selling things on traffic signals. 2. We often meet gifted or twice exceptional students who are struggling. What are some of the joys giftedness can add to a person's life? A 4th grader asked- " Do adopted kids get to decide if they want to be adopted?" He had been thinking about this for a week, since he heard about adoption. This capacity to feel compassion and empathy is one of the joys. Another is the capacity to feel incredible beauty- students will share how they have been moved to tears by a piece of music or art or a visit to a particular exhibit in a museum. Many students are deeply passionate, about the periodic table or space or snakes and they feel huge energy from reading/ studying/exploring these subject areas. Then, there are kids who are enthralled by thorny problems- making a machine they invented work, designing a solution for something they care for- and the productive challenge adds multiple dimensions to them. This is a short list of the joys giftedness could bring. The challenges that it brings are oft-mentioned and many. It was a deeply enriching experience.
December 2023 - Learning Matters, New Delhi, India
In December, Vidushi had the wonderful opportunity to engage with educators, psychologists and administrators from schools in the Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida corridor. These workshops, organized by Learning Matters, focused on Gifted Education, and Thinking Skills. It was heartening to learn that many schools are committing time, resources and personnel to serve advanced learners. It was also clear that more investment is required for this nascent field to develop.
Events
October 2024 - “Gifted Writers: A Journey from Reluctance to Publishing”, AAGC, Alabama, USA
September 2024- Crafting Change Innovative Strategies for Title 1 Gifted identification, NAGC Equity Symposium, USA
Vidushi shared her experience at two Title 1 schools, where she doubled the numbers of gifted students in an urban Atlanta school and increased multicultural representation by 82% in another. This virtual session highlighted practical strategies to make gifted programming and Talent Development models more equitable.
July 2024 - The Gifted Mind, National Principals NAESP Conference, Tennessee, USA
Vidushi and Principal Garosi co-presented to a group of Principals from across the United States. They showcased their student writing growth, demonstrated strategies to create robust gifted programs, and improve the rigor of existing programs. They addressed questions and pain points experienced by educational leaders.
July 2024 - BetweenUs Podcast Nurturing Gifted Children- The Role of Parents, Educators and Policy Makers
In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of innovation, education, and societal impact. Gifted children often display remarkable abilities in intellectual pursuits, creativity, or leadership from a young age. However, realizing their full potential requires a concerted effort from parents, educators, and policymakers. Here's what you can look forward to: 1. Learning Strategies for Gifted Children 2. The Role of Parents 3. Educators as Facilitators 4. Policy Makers' Influence 5. Success Stories and Challenges Whether you're a parent, teacher, or policymaker, this episode is packed with insights and inspiration to help you support and champion the gifted children in your life.
June 2024 - Social and Emotional characteristics of Giftedness, Children First, Delhi India
Vidushi Chaudhry led an in-house training for the psychologists at Children First in New Delhi. They wanted to learn more about the gifted students they encounter in their therapeutic work. In a conversation spanning five hours, they asked some interesting questions like- 1. Are there any kinds of giftedness that cannot be assessed on a traditional test? Absolutely. How would you assess conflict resolution, empathy, curiosity, resilience or problem solving? Most tests don't. There are few or no formal assessments for a child outside K-12 education- think of children still working in agriculture or those selling things on traffic signals. 2. We often meet gifted or twice exceptional students who are struggling. What are some of the joys giftedness can add to a person's life? A 4th grader asked- " Do adopted kids get to decide if they want to be adopted?" He had been thinking about this for a week, since he heard about adoption. This capacity to feel compassion and empathy is one of the joys. Another is the capacity to feel incredible beauty- students will share how they have been moved to tears by a piece of music or art or a visit to a particular exhibit in a museum. Many students are deeply passionate, about the periodic table or space or snakes and they feel huge energy from reading/ studying/exploring these subject areas. Then, there are kids who are enthralled by thorny problems- making a machine they invented work, designing a solution for something they care for- and the productive challenge adds multiple dimensions to them. This is a short list of the joys giftedness could bring. The challenges that it brings are oft-mentioned and many. It was a deeply enriching experience.
March 2024 - GAGC, Columbus, Georgia, USA
On Monday, March 4th 2024, I had the wonderful opportunity to present my work at the Georgia Association of Gifted Children (GAGC) conference in Columbus, Georgia. The conference titled " Showcasing Gifted Students' Writing: Free Journals and Publishing Student Books" was an opportunity to share rigorous and divergent student writing. I shared strategies and provocations to elicit excellent writing, deep learning games and some charming examples from my classrooms. I was grateful for the generous reception from the participants, which included multiple requests for the presentation, and humbled by comments like "It was fabulous " and " I loved your seminar so much. You have a really energetic and fun style". The experience gave me a chance to see the benefits of the hard work I put in over the course of 10 years as a Gifted and Talented teacher, and more recently a TAG testing administrator, and educator.
December 2023 - Learning Matters, New Delhi, India
This December, I had the wonderful opportunity to engage with educators, psychologists and administrators from schools in the Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida corridor. My workshops were organized by Learning Matters. These focused on Gifted Education, and on Thinking skills. It was heartening to learn that many schools are committing time, resources and personnel to serve advanced learners. It was also clear that more investment is required for this nascent field to develop. It felt good to be back in India, and learning what teachers there are focusing on. I was glad to see the intelligence in the room, as well as a willingness to grapple with the complexity of serving students with advanced needs equitably.