About Gifted Conference Planners

Gifted Conference Planners, a non-profit corporation, is comprised of teachers, parents, and gifted adults who care deeply about the needs of the gifted. While we are running conferences on highly and profoundly gifted people at the moment, we also have explicit interests in supporting the Twice-Exceptional, Underachieving, Minority, and other underserved populations among the gifted.

In addition, we are examining how best to nurture the 'state of the art' of the field of gifted education.

Currently, Josh Shaine is the president of Gifted Conference Planners and leads the Beyond IQ Conferences.  Michelle Barmazel is COO of Gifted Conference Planners and leads its operations.

Beyond IQ is about exploring the world beyond IQ testing.  Below is an illustration of the areas of IQ Exploration:

"The Achievement Foothills are gauged by Grades, SATs. CATs and the like.  For those who aim to learn more, there are tools to understand IQ levels such as WISC, Stanford Binet and Woodcock Johnson. But those scores are not an end to itself.  One needs to go Beyond the IQ scores to understand the individual as a whole.  Beyond IQ: Reaching Further"

Planning is underway for the current conference schedule. We are always open to new input.  Please let us know if you have ideas for or about future events, or if you would like to get involved.