2023 August: World Council for Gifted and Talented Children Annual Conference:
“Underachievement in gifted Asian Americans – data desegregation and
local norms considerations” (Presenter)
“Educational experiences of highly gifted Autistic teens and families” (Lead Presenter)
2023 July: SENG Annual Conference.
“Gifted & Struggling: Twice Exceptional Children.” (Co-Presenter)
“Gifted Outliers Unleashed: Demystifying Home Education Myths.” (Presenter)
“Racially Accelerated Gifted Girls in a Residential University – Social, Emotional & Academic Interactions.” (Panelist)
2023 June: Gifted Home Schoolers Forum Annual Conference.
2023 May: SENG Mental Health Awareness Month
“Turning Fear into Understanding”
2023 May: Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented:
“Engaging GT Students in Learning: Using knowledge of human development to shape practical school applications“ (Invited Speaker)
2023 April-May: American Educational Research Association Annual Conference:
“Assessing explicit domain-specific literacy instruction needs of math at-risk children: Dynamic Skill Theory.” (Presenter)
2023 April: SENG Nigeria Regional Conference: “Twice-exceptional Learners: Life Span Perspectives” (Keynote)
2023 April: Institute for Educational Advancement: “Nurturing complex outliers across the lifespan: Human Development perspectives.” (Invited Speaker)
2023 April: SENG Colorado Meetup: In-person.
2023 April: Texas Education Agency – GT Tuesdays:
“Creating Safe Environments for vulnerable G/T students.” (Invited Speaker)
2023 March: SENG North Dallas Meetup: In-person.
2023 March:California Association for the Gifted 61st Annual CAG Family Conference:
“Nurturing complex outliers holistically: Transforming research into practical applications.” (Invited Speaker)
2023 March: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference:
“Supporting Twice-exceptional (2e) Math At-risk Children Through A Dynamic Skill Theory Approach.” (Presenter)
2023 March: SENG & Friends Neurodiversity Conversations: Tustin, CA. In-person & Virtual.
2023 March: Council for Exceptional Children Annual Conference:
Multi Mentor-Mentee Relationship Perspectives: Academic, Parent, and Mentee. (Lead Presenter)
2023 Feb: California Association for the Gifted 61st Annual CAG Educator & Administrator Conference:
“Positive Psychology Applications and Strategies to Promote Health and Wellbeing for Complex Outliers.”
“Gifted Asian American Myth Busters: Understanding the intersectionality of 2e and Asian Americans” (Presenter)
2023 Feb: William & Mary 2e Conference:
“Weighted down by the model minority myth: Gifted Underachievers and/or 2e Asian Americans?” (Presenter)
2023 Jan: 2eCenter Crucial Conversations:
“How to overcome the underachievement of the 2e person in your life“ (Invited Speaker)
2023 Jan: Texas Education Agency – GT Tuesdays:
“Complexities of 2e” (Invited Speaker)
2022 Dec: Bridges 2e Center: The Future is Inclusive: A Neuro and Culturally Diverse Symposium
“Elevating your 2E Culturally diverse child. Fostering the intersection of your child’s identities.” (Invited Panelist)
2022 Nov/Dec: Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) GiftED22 Conference:
“SENG: Social-emotional health increases learning outcomes in the classroom and at home.” (Panel Host for SENG)
“Mentorship is key: Parent, Mentee, Researcher, and Educator collaboration perspectives” (Lead Presenter)
2022 Nov: Teaching and Education Summit 2022:
“What does an Education 4.0 model that meets Industry 4.0 requirements look like?” (Invited Speaker)
2022 Nov: National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) 69th Annual Conference
Signature Session: “Social & Emotional Support for Ourselves and Our Gifted Students” (Invited Panelist)
“Evening the math playing field in early public education for gifted low-income and ELL students.” (Presenter)
2022 Nov: Crucial Conversations About Cognitive Diversity: “Do you know how to develop a supportive 2e friendly community?” (Invited Panelist)
2022 Nov: GHF Expert Series: ” Seeing the trees AND the forest: holistic nurturance of gifted children.” (Invited Guest)
2022 Oct: The Gifted PLaCe Podcast: “C for Curiosity” (Guest)
2022 Oct: IAGC’s 27th Annual Conference: Voyage 2022
“Gifted Asian American Underachievement – Data desegregation and Local Norms Considerations. ” (Presenter)
“Mentorship: Key to Lifespan Health – Parent, Mentee, and Academic Perspectives.” (Host & Panelist)
“Transforming Information into Practical Insights: Neuroscience, Psychology & Developmental Science .” (Presenter)
2022 Oct: International Talent Education Institute: Talent Education Annual Conference 2022.
“Power up! Social-emotional health for outlier gifted and talented children through the lens of positive psychology.” (Keynote)
2022 Oct: Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Children
“From Guidance to Action:
Helping GT Families Organize to Change Policies in Public Schools and Meet Gifted Needs” (Invited Co-Presenter for GEFN)
2022 Oct: Mummyfique.com Feature
2022 Oct: Schools of the Future (SOTF) Conference:
“Visualizing differentiation for complex outliers: Introduction to the Nest!LE® guiding framework.” (Presenter)
2022 Sept: GlobalMindED Newsletter Feature
2022 July: The 15th International Dabrowski Congress 2022
“1st Generation South East Asian American self and parental reflections on Positive Disintegration.” (Presenter)
2022 July: Epsilon Camp Parent Session
“Building solid foundations: Understanding and nurturing complex outliers across the lifespan.” (Invited Speaker)
2022 July: SENG Annual Conference:
“Wellbeing and resilience for the gifted: Narratives from multiple perspectives.” (Host & Panelist)
“O’Kelley Legends & the importance of mentors.” (Host & Panelist)
2022 June: K-12 Expansion into Higher Education: Conversations on the future of learning with Silver Lining for Learning. (Invited Guest)
2022 June: GHF Annual Conference:
“Mentors are key: Parental, researcher and student perspective” [O’ Kelley Legends: 2e Behind The Scenes Documentary Excerpt & Panel Discussion] (Host & Panelist)
“Range: Culturally diverse parental narratives on twice-exceptional, profoundly gifted, and profoundly gifted twice-exceptional children and teens.” (Host & Panelist)
“Building solid parenting foundations : 3 key interdisciplinary insights from neuroscience, psychology and developmental science.” (Presenter)
2022 May: Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: “Modern Trends in Caring for the Gifted.” (Invited Lecturer)
2022 April: Cal State LA University, CA: “O’Kelley Legends & the importance of mentors.” (Host & Panelist)
2022 April: National Summit for Educational Equity – Pathways to an Equitable Workforce. “Twice and thrice exceptional learner-teacher success by transforming information into insight: Introduction to the NEST!® visual guiding framework.” (Presenter)
2022 March: Annual Gifted Education Policy Symposium and Conference: Pre-Conference Panel on Diversity in Gifted Education Research:
” Asian Americans, Pacific islanders & AAPI Communities” (Invited Panelist)
2022 Feb-March: 60th Annual CAG Educator & Administrator Conference, California Association for the Gifted (CAG): “2e 101″ The Basics: Understanding 2e learners and how to meet their needs.” (Invited Panelist)
2022 Feb: Baylor University GT Parent Conference: “Social-emotional support: Empowerment through parent groups.” (Co-presenter)
2022 Feb: William & Mary 2e Conference:
“NEST! ® guiding framework: visualizing 2e learner-teacher success.” (Presenter)
“Differentiation Squared: Moving towards holistic embodied education of 2e learners.” (Co-presenter)
2022 Feb: Gift-a-Palooza 2022 Conference: “Holistic development of complex outliers across the lifespan: Creating strong foundations through NEST!®1-2-3.” (Invited Presenter)
2022 Feb: 48th Annual Conference, Arizona Association of Gifted and Talented (AAGT):
“Get Used to a Moving Target: Understanding 2e learners across the life span.” (Presenter)
“Holistic data visualization to foster 2e learner-teacher success: Introduction to the NEST!® guiding framework.” (Presenter)
2021 Dec: giftED21 (Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented) Annual Conference: “Differentiation Squared: Strategies for Struggling Gifted Students.” (Co-presenter)
2021 Dec: SENG Mini-Conference: Thriving in the New Normal: “Building solid positive communications with neurodiverse children through visuals and key neuro-psychological insights.” (Presenter)
2021 Dec: Young Scholars Academy: YSA Enrolled-Parent-Only Family Discussion.: “Nurturing complex outliers holistically across the lifespan: Building solid foundations.“(Presenter)
2021 Nov: 5th International Conference on Advanced Research in Education, Teaching, and Learning. Amsterdam, Netherlands: “Guiding Framework to Educate Children with High Potential and Disabilities: Integrating Brain Targeted Teaching and Strength-based Pedagogy.” (Keynote)
2021 Oct: Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) SENGinar: “From Guidance to Action: Helping GT Families Organize to Change Policies in Public Schools and Meet Gifted Needs.” (Co-presenter)
2021 Oct: 26th Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC) Conference: “Fostering 2e Student Success Through a Brain-Targeted Teaching Framework.” (Presenter)
2021 Sept: Gifted Homeschoolers Forum: “Parenting through development and collaborative communication.”
2021 August: PG Retreat: “Dual Differentiation Workshop.” (Co-presenter)
2021 July-August: World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC) Biennial World Conference: “Mission (Im)Possible: Parenting Twice-Exceptional Children Holistically through an Ecological Framework.” (Presenter)
2021 July: Pre-conference APA certified workshop SENG Annual Conference: “From Guidance to Action: Helping GT Families Organize to Change Policies in Public Schools and Meet Gifted Needs.” (Co-presenter)
2021 July: 16th International Conference: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. (Oxford, UK). “Multi-systems Perspective on Understanding Twice-exceptionality.” (Presenter)
2021 July: SENG Annual Conference: ” #SMPGfamchat .” (Co-host)
2021 June: Gifted Education Family Network Interview with Dr. Nicole Tetreault. (Host)
2021 June: Bridges Graduate School Of Cognitive Diversity in Education: “Learning, Development, Multi-systems: Relations with Twice-exceptionality.” (Keynote)
2021 June: Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF) Conference: “Lunch Table Talk – Curriculum & Resources.” (Panelist)
2021 May: Conversations with the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented (CAGT) Series: “Collaborative Nurturance of Gifted Outliers Through Strong Educator-Parent-Practitioner Relationships.” (Co-presenter)
2021 May: International Conference on Advanced Research in Education Teaching Learning (Paris, France): “Understanding Twice-exceptionality (2e): A Multi-systems Perspective.” (Presenter)
2021 May: Denver Mensa 2021 Speaker Series: “Masterpieces in progress: understanding twice-exceptionality through Visuals and Metaphors.” (Invited Speaker)
2021 April: The New Minds Podcast: More than an Acronym: A Journey through 2E with Dr. Lin Lim.
2021 April: TPPG Annual Texas A&M Physics Festival Gathering: Transitions of the Gifted Journey. (Co-presenter)
2021 March: MTO Shahmaghsoudi Global Roundtable Discussion of Women. (Panelist)
2021 February: Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) SENGinar: “Mission IMPossible: Transform 2e and Neuroscience Knowledge into Action.” (Presenter – Webinar). Recording.
2021 January: SENG SMPG Global online 2e family outreach. (Facilitator)
2020 December: Gifted Education Family Network: Dr Collin’s “What does Giftedness Look like?” (Co-host)
2020 July: Bright and Quirky. “Essential School Strategies for Twice Exceptional Students.” (Panelist)
2020 July: C&!.”Weathering the Storm: Uniting for Gifted Education in Uncertain Times.” ( GEFN Presenter/Facilitator)
2020 June: 2e Conference, Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity “2e Parents, Get Used to a Moving Target!” (Interactive Workshop Presenter)
2020 April: Texas Parents of the Profoundly Gifted. “Weathering the Storm: Uniting for Gifted Education in Uncertain Times.” (GEFN Presenter)
2020 February: GT Parent Conference, Baylor Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. “Protect and Improve your District’s GT Program: How Parents Can Get Started.” (Panelist)
“A SENG parent group dedicated to twice exceptional! I was able to relax into the experience with parents who understood and resources that mattered. A space to support, share, and learn. Skillful facilitation included a discussion summary each week. Convenient digital format allowed connecting with parents in other locations that was enriching.”
Michelle, Global 2e SMPG participant (Texas, USA)