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<p style="margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">OAGC September News Flash </font></strong></p>
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<strong>Fall Conference </strong></p>
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The annual OAGC fall conference begins in less than five weeks! The conference will be held from October 15 - 17, 201 at the Hilton Easton in Columbus, Ohio. Our keynoters will be Dr. James Webb and Ian Byrd. Along with these amazing keynoters, we will have
many excellent featured speakers and small sessions. To register, please go to <a data-cke-saved-href="http://oagc.com/fallconference.asp" href="http://oagc.com/fallconference.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">oagc.com/fallconference.asp</a>.
Please note that the early registration rate expires on October 1, 2017. We expect a full conference, so please do not wait to register. Information on keynoters, small sessions, parent day, awards, Sunday functions, vendors, graduate credit and more are all
posted at the above link.</p>
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<strong>Advocacy </strong></p>
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After a break in August, the State Board of Education will meet next Monday and Tuesday. In addition, many of the General Assembly commitees are starting up again. As things begin to heat up, OAGC will resume publication of our Advocacy Updates/Alerts at <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.oagc.com/advocacyalerts.asp" href="http://www.oagc.com/advocacyalerts.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">oagc.com/advocacyalerts.asp </a>.
Look for more information regarding the implementation of the new gifted operating standards at that link soon</p>
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<strong>New Arts Scholarship </strong></p>
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OAGC is pleased to announce a new arts-based student scholarship, the Susan Faulkner Arts Scholarship. For more information, please go to <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.oagc.com/scholarship.asp" href="http://www.oagc.com/scholarship.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">oagc.com/scholarship.asp</a>.
The deadline to submit applications is November 15th, 2017. </p>
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<strong>Gifted HQPD -- High Quality Professional Development</strong></p>
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As the gifted operating standards are now in effect, OAGC has been working hard to assist districts in implementing the new classroom teacher gifted HQPD requirement. As part of our on-going effort to ensure that Ohio's classroom teachers receive Ohio specific
and relevant professional development, OAGC is proud to announce our new partneship with GTIGNITE. For more information on this partnership along with with several tools and documents that will help you plan, provide, and track gifted HQPD, please go to <a data-cke-saved-href="http://oagc.com/hqpd.asp" href="http://oagc.com/hqpd.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">oagc.com/hqpd.asp</a> .
Please note that all of our Fall conference sessions indicate how they align to ODE and OAGC professional development standards.</p>
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<strong>OAGC Review Articles Needed </strong></p>
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OAGC is looking for a few good articles for the Winter Review. To ask for an extension, or to submit articles, please email <a data-cke-saved-href="javascript:void(location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(97,110,110,103,105,102,116,64,97,111,108,46,99,111,109,32)+'?subject=OAGC%20Review%20articles%20')" style="color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">anngift@aol.com</a>
by November 15th. The theme is social emotional issues. </p>
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<strong>Donate to OAGC </strong></p>
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As you begin to make your year-end charitable contributions, please remember that OAGC is the only organization in Ohio advocating on the behalf of gifted children. We hope that you will consider a donation to OAGC by going to the following link <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.oagc.com/donate.asp" href="http://www.oagc.com/donate.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">http://www.oagc.com/donate.asp</a>. </p>
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<strong>Amazon Smile </strong></p>
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Did you know you could assist OAGC merely by ordering your Amazon goods? It's simple. Just by making the following portal <a data-cke-saved-href="http://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7442288" href="http://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7442288" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">http://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7442288<em> </em></a>your
default for Amazon orders, Amazon will donate a small percentage to OAGC. </p>
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<strong>Social Media Connections</strong></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Do you Tweet? Follow the OAGC Advocacy Updates by following oagcgifted at <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.twitter.com/oagcgifted" href="http://www.twitter.com/oagcgifted" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">www.twitter.com/oagcgifted</a> .</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Are you on Facebook? Become a fan of OAGC by clicking on <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.facebook.com/OhioAGC" href="http://www.facebook.com/OhioAGC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">https://www.facebook.com/OhioAGC.</a></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Join <a data-cke-saved-href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ohiogtchat&src=typd" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ohiogtchat&src=typd" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">#ohiogtchat</a>,
the OAGC Teacher Division chat, on Twitter bi-monthly on Sundays at 9pm. For a complete schedule and a blog see the chat's website at: <a data-cke-saved-href="http://ohiogtchat.weebly.com/" href="http://ohiogtchat.weebly.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 16, 16);">http://ohiogtchat.weebly.com/</a></div>
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