Parent Education Session – Monday March 3 at 7:00pm
Goals of Gifted Education
There can be many goals of gifted education. In this talk, Dr. Matthew Makel will provide example goals that have been established by the gifted education field, while also providing context for how parents can assess whether their own goals are being met by the services that their children receive. Dr. Makel is Professor and Chair in High Ability Studies at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, and a Child Health & Wellness Researcher at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
General Meeting
Immediately following the presentation, we will hold a short GATE Parent Association General Meeting. If you have a student registered in GATE for this current school year, you are a member of the GPA.
Date: Monday March 3, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Virtual meeting (Zoom)
REGISTER HERE by February 28, 2025.
Non-GATE parents are welcome to attend this session.
CASINO VOLUNTEERS: March 6 and 7
The GPA Casino Fundraising Event is coming up on March 6 and 7, 2025 at Pure Casino (1420 Meridian Rd NE). We still need to fill a few spots on March 6, including back up positions.
This casino event is expected to raise approximately $70,000 for GATE students! These funds are vital to be able to provide our students with curriculum enhancement opportunities such as: science equipment, technology, field trips, drama and music workshops, classroom literacy materials and math resources. Without these funds, each experience would be an additional cost to parents, or not take place at all.
Training for each position is provided on-the spot and no special skills are required. Anyone 18 and over can volunteer, including former GATE students.
VOLUNTEER WITH THE GPA
We are currently looking for volunteers to fill the following role of Site Representatives for Louis Riel and Henry Wise Wood Schools. This involves attending school council meetings and GPA meetings and sharing school updates between the two groups.
Email us at info@gatecalgary.ca for more information.
UPCOMING PARENT EDUCATION SESSIONS
The Community Education Service (CES) is offering the following sessions for parents and families. Sessions are offered at no cost but registration is required. *Click on the Poster/PDF icon below the correct session to register* You can access pre-recorded sessions for free HERE.
February 24, 2025: Managing Challenging Behaviours
Everyone has intense emotions, the trick is being able to navigate them.
Through this presentation you will learn about the crisis cycle and how to intervene at a different moment to reduce the risk of an intense emotional outburst. You can use these strategies with anyone in your life, despite their age.
March 4, 2025: Navigating Technology with our Youth
The message of this presentation is not only based on technology, but also about a child’s healthy brain development and the necessary parenting/caregiver role in creating healthy, emotional, regulated, and integrated brains. This presentation will address the underpinning of a child’s emotional brain development and how to grow it, as well as how technology can dangerously hijack this. The presentation is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience.
This workshop is designed to give attendees the skills to become their child’s emotional coach. The workshop will provide participants with:
• An understanding of the basic neuroscience behind healthy brain development,
• The dangers of technology for healthy brain development,
• Technology use rules that will help your child
• When building healthy brains, how to identify emotions in your child/student, and
• How to become your child’s/student’s emotional coach in only five steps and in that, build a resilient child.
The Arnica Foundation is offering the following sessions for parents and families:
April 8 and 9, 2025: The Power of Showing Up: Clinical Application of Interpersonal Neurobiology, and
Supporting Parents of Teens with the Brain in Mind
In this two day workshop, Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel Siegel will look at what the science says about the best predictors for how kids and teens develop, and how clinicians can work with parents in to cultivate secure attachment, and responding to challenges.