A parent recounts strategies for navigating the SENG annual conference, advising attendees to prioritize needs, choose backup sessions, review speakers, be flexible, explore exhibits, and share learnings. She notes sessions suit homeschoolers and families and encourages participation to find what’s ‘just right’.
This post offers a ‘homestyle’ advocacy recipe for parents of gifted children: identify your child’s needs, research policies, connect with supportive insiders, assemble a team, and persist politely. Avoid negativity, adapt strategies, involve the child when appropriate, and trust your instincts to secure appropriate educational support.
Using board game metaphors, the post describes parents’ advocacy for gifted education as strategic and challenging: institutional policies and procedures can obstruct individual families, students risk boredom or reprimand, and coordinated groups of informed parents often achieve better outcomes by combining resources, experience and persistence to effect change.
