Where: Memorial High School, Little Theatre
2608 California Road, Elkhart, 46514
(Call 574/262-5567 for additional information)

What time:
Session I - 6:00-6:45 p.m.
Break for refreshments

Session 2- 7:00-7:45 p.m.
Q& A and Wrap-up- 7:45-8:00 p.m.

Speakers, Ginny Burney and Dr. Tracy Cross, will give insights as parents and professionals on the Emotional and Social Issues/Development of Gifted/Talented Students.

Specifically, students in gifted/talented programs as well as other high ability students may have special needs when encountering "life outside" of these programs and/or other high achievement honors/endeavors.

This evening Ginny Burney and Dr. Cross will focus on this subject and will hopefully lend support where needed.

About the Speakers

Ginny Burney is mother of three gifted children (ages 17, 21, 22) and has 30 years of experience in education. She has experienced being a math teacher, guidance counselor and school administrator. After her children were born she obtained the gifted endorsement and served as a middle school administrator in a school for the gifted. She was a "stay at home" mom while her kids were preschoolers and again while they were in high school. She is a member of several boards, including the Indiana Association for the Gifted and the National Association for Gifted Children. Ginny received the NAGC Parent of the Year Award in 2003.

Dr. Tracy Cross, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Gifted Studies, is the Executive Director of the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities and Professor of Psychology at Ball State University. Dr. Cross has published 60+ articles in prestigious journals such as the Peabody Journal of Education, Gifted Child Quarterly, and Journal for the Education of the Gifted, numerous book chapters, a coauthored textbook, Being Gifted in School: An Introduction to Development, Guidance and Teaching, and a supplemental text, On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Students. He is the editor of the Roeper Review and editor emeritus of the Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, Research Briefs and others. Dr. Cross has written a column for the past 9 years for the Gifted Child Today on the social and emotional development of gifted students. He is past president of the Indiana Association for the Gifted and of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Parents may consider having their child attend the sessions; however, activities for children K-6^th will also be provided in the cafeteria -- these activities provided by EAGER.

January 30, 2004