#UCCS is in the house! At the National Association for Gifted Children Convention 2025 in Pittsburgh! @pghcitypaper.com University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)

Welcoming incoming co-chair Connie Phelps to the Global Awareness Network of #NAGC

Someone somewhere is utilizing the amazing tech support skills of elementary student tech support 🎉

The Global Awareness Network meeting connects humans. ❤️ National Association for Gifted Children

Colorado people, and Colorado Academy of Educators for the Gifted, Talented, and Creative (CAEGTC) spotted in the wild! At #NAGC2025 convention #giftededucation #seekids

Shout out to Jessica Gutierrez with all the coordination of networks for the National Association for Gifted Children convention, 2025!

Somewhere in an elementary school today- A six year old stretched face first in the soft green grass… a teacher sat down next to him, to talk him into starting the school day.

In an elementary school near you today… a six year old rescued a bug and took it outside.

Spotted in a high school near you this week- a kid carrying, perfectly, an open, red, coffee mug, complete with coffee, to class. No cover, no go-cup. Just a classic. #skills

Heard in a middle school this week: “if this makes 0.0% sense to you today, don’t worry; I’ll explain it tomorrow in a new way so that you can learn it.”

This seems made for a children’s book.

A kid-watching assessment: 15 minutes to build a village with specialized blocks w/results in 30 or less: IQ, social-emotional needs, learning needs. They’re using it in Europe- educators, psychologists, counselors: Colorado this November, sign up now for training #EduSky worldgamelab.com/colorado/

Yes!! 🙌

Truth

MOMENTS AGO: Trump visits the Federal Reserve with Chair Jerome Powell. Trump has tried to pressure Powell to lower interest rates, and the president and top administration officials have criticized him over the cost of the building renovations. MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard reports the latest.

A nonverbal assessment for kids, that takes 15 minutes & yields a wealth of information on their thinking, abilities, and needs. It’s now coming to Colorado Springs - training & kit to give it- for educators and psychologists- only 2nd time available in the U.S. worldgamelab.com/colorado/

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Call her Ishmael. New version of Senate BBB sneaks in a new tax break for...whale-boat captains. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Still not a fan of sprinkles, but always a fan of kid chefs www.facebook.com/share/p/16K4...

It hurts to watch and we can’t afford to look away. A mother of six girls showed up at her routine hearing, and was loaded up, with her husband helpless and in tears nearby. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Die...

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

Our lawmakers should be focused on passing policies that keep us safe—but instead, they're considering legislation that would gut our life-saving gun laws. I just sent a message urging my lawmakers to oppose it: etwn.us/3DGVCCY @Everytown

House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing

Babies mimic and model ❤️ and some of them turnout to have unusually wired brains who absorb the code of reading and can fully read- decode, understand, question, comunícate nuance in the text- well before school, with giftedness. Some can memorize and retain the sounds but do not have comprehension

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.

“I did my research.” Scouting online news for a topic is very different from Research, where peers test each other’s ideas, their mathematical calculations, the ways that they recruited participants and presented their results.

Assault weapons have no place in our communities. As I spend time in Honolulu – I am urging colleagues in the healthcare field and residents of the islands to call their lawmakers and urge their support for SB 401. @everytown.bsky.social

"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

If you’re in Colorado Springs- opening this weekend, two weekends only: the hilarity and mayhem of Blithe Spirit, because people just don’t listen… 😁 tickets.entcenterforthearts.org/overview/5232

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt). Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders / envelopes.

"This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what's going on. And it also shows the lengths Trump will go to" -- Van Hollen details how the photos appearing to show him and Abrego Garcia with margaritas were staged by the government of El Salvador

This is despicable. ICE is out of control.

In the midst of all the bad news in the world, I was researching and found a parents’ group wishlist for their kids in schools, and it struck me how much it is still relevant 16 years later- and mostly universal. open.substack.com/pub/nikkimye...

💔 hug your 19yos. And advocate for this one.

OK, I am all for Sesame Street. But let's not pretend they aren't teaching bigger lessons about multiculturalism. The subtext on the recent episode about how Rosita's basketball coach kept calling her the wrong name and she hated it was not subtle.

In public schools this month, guess what I saw? Teachers greeting & cheering kids. Kids taking state testing. Kids line dancing in gym- active and engaged. 5th graders consoling a friend with a broken heart. 5th graders leaping up to touch the doorframe. Find a local school- volunteer & reconnect.

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah

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www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... “Given the current measles outbreak, anything less than a wholehearted full-court press to get many more children vaccinated against measles, above 90% across the country, is a public health failure,” said Dr. Peter Marks.