March 8, 10:00 A.M.: Tiombe Kendrick-Dunn Joins Our Live Webinar As a Guest Speaker. We

March 8, 10:00 a.m.: Tiombe Kendrick-Dunn joins our live webinar as a guest speaker. We will discuss gifted screenings/evaluations and increasing the identification of students from under-represented populations. We will have a question and answer time where participants can submit questions for discussion.

Tiombe Kendrick-Dunn, SSP, NCSP, is a nationally certified school psychologist and is licensed to practice school psychology in the state of Florida. She has been employed with the Miami-Dade County Public School District as a school psychologist since 2005. She is the past president of Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) and is active with many gifted organizations and parent groups. Ms. Kendrick-Dunn has a very strong passion for addressing the needs of gifted students from culturally and linguistically diverse populations and has been instrumental in significantly increasing the numbers of culturally diverse students participating in the Gifted Program at her schools. In addition, she has many helped parents find services outside the school district to help address the needs of their gifted children. In 2006, Ms. Kendrick-Dunn was a member of Miami-Dade Public Schools Gifted Task Force Committee and was also awarded the Mary Frasier Scholarship sponsored by the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC). In 2007, she was both appointed to the NAGC Diversity/Equity Committee and was awarded a grant by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Children Fund Inc. to establish a resource center specifically designed for gifted students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Ms. Kendrick-Dunn completed her undergraduate work at Miami Dade College and Florida State University and her graduate work at Barry University. Ms. Kendrick-Dunn has presented at numerous professional conventions on the topic of gifted children.

April 20, 3:00 p.m.: Judy Galbraith joins our live webinar to discuss the results of more than 30 years’ worth of surveys she has conducted with gifted children in grades K–12 throughout the United States and beyond. Student survey responses will challenge, surprise, and, most importantly, inform what you’re doing on behalf of gifted children and teens—socially, emotionally and educationally.

Judy Galbraith, M.A., is an award-winning author and publisher. She has a master’s degree in guidance and counseling of the gifted. A former classroom teacher, Judy has worked with and taught gifted children and teens, their parents, and their teachers for many years. In 1983, she started Free Spirit Publishing, which specializes in Self-Help for Kids® and Self-Help for Teens® material as well as resources for educators. Judy is the author of The Survival Guide for Gifted Kids, The Gifted Teen Survival Guide and When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers (with Jim Delisle), You Know Your Child Is Gifted When . . . and What Kids Need to Succeed (with Peter Benson and Pamela Espeland). In 1996, Galbraith received the E. Paul Torrance Creativity Award; in 2011, she was presented with the California Association for the Gifted Ruth A. Martinson Award; and in 2012, she received the Friend of the Gifted award by the Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented for her sustained advocacy on behalf of gifted children.