GATE Collaborative Network
Focusing on Best Practices in Gifted Education
- Model lessons using GATE strategies
- Collaboration with teachers across the county
- Protocols to create culture, climate, and collaboration within the classroom
Registration is required for this FREE VIRTUAL EVENT
Orange County Department of Education: Online GATE Certification Program
The Orange County Department of Education is pleased to announce its new GATE Certification program. This asynchronous course is designed with the busy professional in mind, comprised of eight modules, based on effective strategies to increase learning opportunities and guide gifted students to reach their full potential.
Sessions will focus on characteristics of students who are gifted and differentiation utilizing the GATE standards of acceleration, depth, complexity, and novelty, as well as strategies to enhance, enrich and extend the core curriculum. The program will include protocols for interpersonal and intrapersonal skills to ensure the development of the whole child.
The certification program meets the requirements for the Orange County GATE Collaborative as part of the Orange County Council for Gifted and Talented Education (OCC GATE).
Please contact our office for more information, Julie Hull at jhull@ocde.us.
For district GATE Certification programs, please contact our office at 714-966-4328.
Project Change:
An Early Childhood Focus to Promote and Respond to Giftedness
A Six-week online course that introduces the concept of pedagogical tools and practices to create play-based and academic experiences that promote the identifications and differentiation of curriculum responsive to the diversity and potential of young advanced and gifted students.
Mondays
March 28 - May 2, 2022
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Orange County Council for the Gifted (OCC GATE) is excited to announce the annual conference for K-12 educators working with gifted and advanced learners.
Save the date for the OCC GATE Virtual Conference: October 22, 2022
Save the Date Flyer
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The 60th Annual CAG Administrator Conference will provide sessions from experts on how to apply equitable practices to your school district or school site for gifted and advanced student populations.
Friday - Sunday
February 25-27, 2022
Registration
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The 60th Annual Virtual CAG Educator Conference will provide sessions from national experts on how to apply research-based strategies in your classroom and at your school site to develop the potential for diverse advanced and gifted students.
Friday - Sunday
March 25-27, 2022
Registration
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The 60th Annual CAG Parent Conference will provide sessions from experts on the social, emotional, intellectual, and academic needs of gifted and advanced learners for families to use at home.
Saturday
April 30, 2022
Registration
CAG Summer Institute
The CAG Summer Institute is a three-day virtual learning experience for teachers and administrators to participate in curriculum development and to expand their expertise on how research and theory are transferred into practice.
Wednesday - Friday
July 27-29, 2022
Information coming soon!
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CAG Access Fall Institute
The CAG Access Fall Institute will provide sessions experts in gifted education on how to unlock potential with gifted learners and all students to advance equity and access to critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and inquiry.
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Registration and information
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Please contact Julie Hull at jhull@ocde.us to develop a customized professional learning contract.
