Silverquicken @IAGC
Illinois Associated for Gifted Children
October 27-28, 2025
Puzzles, Games, and Stories Can Transform Your Classroom
Want your students to learn problem solving, creativity, and teamwork? Want to do it in a fun, easy-to-implement way?
Come by our booth to try one of our puzzles, flip through our SEED book, and learn all about Silverquicken. And join us for several hands-on workshops, where you’ll learn about how puzzles can transform visual/spatial skills, how stories can transform gifted learning, and how puzzles can help our gifted learners work more collaboratively!
Strands of Giftedness: Empowering Ways to Nurture Nonverbal Reasoning Ability
Room 167
Cooperative Thinking: The Missing Pillar in Gifted Education
WITH BRIAN HOUSAND!
Room 261
Stories: Transforming Education for Gifted Learners
Room 167
NEW THIS YEAR! SEED BOOK AND DAILY PUZZLE PLUS
DAILY PUZZLE PLUS
If you love our free Daily Puzzle, get ALL the previous + future puzzles (200 across the school year!), PLUS hints and detailed solutions for each!
SEED BOOK
Co-authored with Dr. Brian Housand, this book provides 50+ puzzles, games, and activities that build thinking AND feeling skills for gifted learners. Order now with your discount code at checkout and get 10% off the cover price!
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Workshop Materials
VALUE OF STORIES
Tuesday, October 28
1:30 PM, Room 167
Good stories do far more than engage and entertain our kids; good stories have the power to transform gifted education. Join us to learn how adding narratives to your lessons can engage learners on an emotional level, drawing them into problem-solving experiences that encourage psychologically safe intellectual risk-taking. Leave with story-based puzzles and activities that help turn your classroom into a place where learners feel connected, engaged, and inspired to learn.
COOPERATIVE THINKING
Monday, October 27
2:40 PM, Room 261
Learn how cooperative learning transforms gifted education by fostering collaboration, critical thinking, and social-emotional growth. This workshop highlights the power of cooperative thinking AND feeling skills to engage gifted learners in contextualized and meaningful teamwork-driven challenges. Discover strategies to design cooperative activities, overcome common group dynamics issues, and bring this overlooked pillar of gifted education to life in your classroom.
EMPOWERING NONVERBAL REASONING ABILITY
Monday, October 27
11:10 AM, Room 167
Discover the importance of nonverbal (visual/spatial) reasoning and the challenges many educators experience when identifying and nurturing it in gifted programs. Explore how to both identify these unique talents and effectively engage students in cognitive and affective nonverbal reasoning activities. Participants will walk away with ready-to-use resources for teaching these skills in fun, empowering ways and ensuring that ALL learners feel valued as part of the larger learning community.
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