ABC Ontario's Annual General Meeting will be held in conjunction with our Annual Family Event on Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 11:30am.**

TIFF Festival Tower, 80 John St, Residents' Cinema, 10th Floor, Toronto ON M5V3X4

All Members are invited to attend to receive our financial statements for the last fiscal year and participate in the election of our new executive for the 2019-2021 term. The formal meeting will take less than 30 minutes. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any questions.

Capacity is strictly limited at this venue.

Advance registration is now closed.

Please see the home page for additional details about our 2019 Free Family Event: Making the Connection with Film-in-a-day Workshop for children held on the same date and location 11:00am-3:30pm. Everyone welcome!

Note: The AGM is open to all members free of charge but advance registration closes at  Saturday April 13th at 4:00pm.

Availability of spots cannot be guaranteed. Registration is first come first served. Space is filling fast!

ABC Ontario's 2017 Provincial Conference

Reaching Full Potential

Educational Excellence + Enhanced Well-Being

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Registration: 12:00 - 12:30pm

Conference: 12:30 - 4:30pm

Lynn Dare | ACCELERATION: Challenging Assumptions 

Dr. Shari Orders | GIFTED + 2E: Placement Decision Making

Leonila Liko | SECONDARY GIFTED: Supporting Students @Home

Zoe Branigan Pipe | GIFTED + WELL-BEING: A Holistic Approach 

ABC Ontario | ADVOCATING for Gifted Education 

NETWORKING Session | Meet Fellow Parents of Gifted Students

To book your ticket click HERE and reserve your spot today!

Advance Registration Required

$35 per person

[$45 after Nov 26, 2017]

Coffee and refreshments included

Emmanuel College

University of Toronto

75 Queen’s Park Crescent East

TTC to Museum Subway Station

Parking across at Law Faculty 

or off Charles or Bloor St

Childcare or workshops not provided 

Royal Ontario Museum nearby www.rom.on.ca

Speaker Biographies:

 Keynote Speaker

Lynn Dare is a PhD candidate in applied educational psychology at Western University. Lynn’s primary area of research is acceleration for bright children, and she’s also interested in twice-exceptionally and including children in research. Her master’s research on acceleration through concurrent enrollment was awarded the Dunlop Award for Distinguished Graduate Contribution by the Canadian Association for Educational Psychology. Lynn recently spent four months at the Gifted Education Research, Resource, and Information Centre (GERRIC) at the University of New South Wales. Through her visit to GERRIC, she learned more about accelerative options, and led research on acceleration in Australia.

Leonila Liko is the Gifted ACL (Curriculum Leader) at Toronto’s Northern Secondary School where the gifted program (over 600 students) is the largest in Ontario.

Dr Shari Orders, University of Ottawa, has conducted research on parents’ involvement in advocating for gifted students in the Ontario education system as well as coaching educators on developing a global perspective to differentiating for gifted learners in the “regular” classroom.

Zoe Branigan-Pipe is a Special Assignment Teacher for Gifted itinerant programming in the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board with expertise in 21st Century Literacies and a holistic approach to meeting the needs of gifted students. “As learners ourselves, we need to leverage the power of technology to extend the scope of our influence beyond the confines of our communities, homes, schools and district. With a global perspective, we can begin to truely understand the world around us, recognize social justice and know when to stand up for ourselves and others.”