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The mission of the Alabama Association for Gifted Children is to provide advocacy leadership, and support to assist educators, parents, and community partners in meeting the educational and affective needs of gifted children and youth in Alabama.

Celebrating Gifted Education Month - Proclamation Signing with Governor Ivey 

2025 Upcoming Webinars

PD Webinar Series

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 6:00 pm CT

Motivating Underachievers:

Strategies for 21st Century Success

Frustrated by students who have potential to achieve but for a variety of reasons do not? This webinar focuses on these students...our underachievers. We will examine the causes of underachievement, and explore numerous practical strategies that can be used by teachers, counselors, and parents to help and encourage underachieving students.

Underachievement is usually degenerative. Signs begin in the early grades and the effects are cumulative as the child grows older. We will explore a number of reasons for underachievement and then turn to answering the question of how we can help these students.

Suggested strategies are practical and can be implemented in any school setting.

Meet Carolyn Coil

Carolyn Coil is an internationally known speaker, author, trainer, consultant and educator. An enthusiastic, motivating and energetic speaker, she has worked in the field of education for more than 40 years. Carolyn is known for her energy, enthusiasm, practical knowledge and down-to-earth presentation style.

She works with teachers, parents and administrators offering realistic and user-friendly strategies for raising student achievement, motivating underachievers, dealing with children with overexcitabilities, differentiating curriculum, teaching critical and creative thinking, and assessing student performance. Carolyn has taught graduate-level education courses since 1989. She is the author of many journal articles and a number of best-selling educational books published by Pieces of Learning in the United States and Hawker Brownlow Education in Australia.

Registration here:  https://alabamagifted.org/event-6019171

Parent Webinar Series 

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 6:00 pm CT

Little Miss Gifted's Favorite Things!

Join us for a can't-miss parenting webinar featuring energetic and passionate Little Miss Gifted. In this webinar, Stephanie Higgs will share her very favorite strategies and resources for parenting gifted learners, including everything from fun creativity exercises to social-emotional supports. Stephanie's passionate and dynamic approach to sharing strategies and easy-to-love resources will equip you with a new parenting toolbelt filled with ideas, supports, resources, and strategies to tackle the unique highlights and challenges of parenting a gifted child!

Meet Stephanie Higgs

Little Miss Gifted - Stephanie Higgs, best known as @littlemissgifted on Instagram, is an award-winning, Nashville-living gifted educator and differentiation coach, here to infuse a little sparkle and shine into parenting a gifted child!

Stephanie is a quick thinking, fast talking, and passionate gifted educator, differentiation coach, and international professional development presenter for general educators and teachers of the gifted. Her sessions are always filled with immediate, easy-to-implement, FUN takeaways you'll be eager to try with your kiddos immediately.

While Stephanie acknowledges that parenting doesn’t come with a handbook, she knows that parenting a gifted child certainly doesn’t! Stephanie is here to love and serve you however she can. She'll be your #1 hype girl as you strive to better yourself in the field of gifted education and parenting a gifted child.

Stephanie leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes, so prepare to leave her webinar feeling energized, equipped, and empowered to give your gifted parenting a glow up!

For printable document click here.

For digital flyer click here.

Registration information coming soon. 

Checkout our grant and award winners from our 2024 conference!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our AAGC 30th Anniversary Conference! Your participation made this milestone event a huge success. We are grateful for the inspiring discussions, meaningful connections, and shared passion for advancing gifted education in Alabama. Here's to many more years of supporting our gifted students together!

Thank you to our sponsors!

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Gifted advocacy takes a year-round effort.   We made great strides this last legislative year but we are far from the much needed funds to make full-funding a reality.  Share what is happening in your classroom on all your social media outlets.  Reach out to your elected officials.  Until gifted education is fully funded, we will continue striving for that goal!  Go here, to find out what you can do!