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Katie Hitchman M.S.

Northside ISD
GT Instructional Support Specialist
Northside ISD

Katie Hitchman has a passion for gifted education that has been developed and deepened over her 17 years in education. She now coordinates a total school clustering program for elementary schools as a district Instructional Support Teacher for the Advanced Academics Department in Northside ISD, focusing on meeting the needs of gifted and advanced academic students, while improving teaching, learning, and achievement of all students.

4:00pm CST

Registration Open Registration Desk

6:00pm CST

Geeks Who Teach Trivia Night: 90’s Edition Texas Salon CBrian Housand

8:00am CST

Transforming Tier 1 Instruction: Going Beyond the Standards with Easy Higher-Order Questioning (Equity Track) Hunters CreekClint Von Gundy

9:00am CST

Learning to Fly the giftED Experience Texas Salon ABrian Housand • Andi McNair

1:00pm CST

MasterMind Session: The Accidental Rocket Scientist: Recognizing Potential to Increase Educational Equity Texas Salon DEDajae Williams

2:30pm CST

Leveraging the Depth & Complexity Framework with Graphic Organizers (Differentiation Track) BriargroveSunny Bonnecarrere

3:30pm CST

Speed Geeking Texas Salon FBrian Housand The Gifted Kids Will Not Be Alright Texas Salon ATodd Stanley

9:00am CST

MasterMind Session: #whyGT: A Storytelling Session Texas Salon DEBlake Haygood • Evan Hsiang • Adriana Sanchez Cantu • Debi Torres M.Ed.

11:00am CST

Creative Thinking Tools to Enhance Depth and Complexity (Differentiation Track) Texas ASuzanna Ramos • Hector Ramos The Struggle is Real: Recognizing and Responding to #giftedkidburnout Texas Salon DEAndi McNair • Brian Housand

1:00pm CST

Functioning in Space: A Cross-Curricular Approach Texas Salon ASteven Smith Beyond The Blank Screen: How COVID Has Impacted GT Student Attention and Neuro-Social Development (and what we can do about it!) River OaksMatt Wells

3:15pm CST

Differentiating Instruction for High Ability Gifted Students (Differentiation Track) Texas FMonica Simonds • Justin Pata • Blake Bogus

4:30pm CST

Acronym Alphabet Soup: Turning TPSPs into PBLs for FROs! Texas CLisa Timmerman • Allyson Dickinson Framing Your Curriculum with Depth & Complexity (Differentiation Track) BriargroveKaren Cooper • Danielle Peterson • Sue Wilson • Elizabeth Harden The 5 levels model for teaching a blended class Texas Salon GMichael Wang

9:00am CST

Literary Journey through DC Towards Social Awareness and Equity (Differentiation Track) BriargroveKaren Cooper • Danielle Peterson • Elizabeth Harden TEA and CAC Update (Coordinator Track) River OaksMonica Brewer • Meredith Austin

10:15am CST

MasterMind Session: Why Students’ Mental Health Matters: Live Podcast Interview Texas Salon DEEmily Kircher-Morris • Heather Lambert • Martha Thomas • Chris Thomas

11:30am CST

Depth and Complexity In Action (Differentiation Track) BriargroveAmanda Smith