By presenting sessions at national, state and regional conferences, Dr. Solow stays up to date with the latest research and best practices in the educational field.  Attending these meetings in different cities throughout the country, she gains a wider perspective on educational philosophy and practicalities. Participating in state and regional conferences allows Dr. Solow to focus on schools' and parents' educational needs in Virginia. A sample of her work includes:

National Venues

• Talk the Talk; Walk the Walk
• Essential Understandings: The Key to Successful Differentiation
• Successfully Negotiating the Transitions of Adolescence
• Parenting of Gifted Children: What Teachers Need to Know

Denver, CO – National Association of Gifted Children Annual Conference

• *Daniel Zahav: Gifted and Disabled; Resilience and Growth (*pseudonym)

Albuquerque, NM – National Association of Gifted Children Annual Conference

• The Cutting Edge: Parents’ Concepts of Giftedness
• Dazzling Parents in the 21st Century

Lousiville, KY – National Association of Gifted Children Annual Conference

• The Magical Measurement History Tour: A Community Project
• Shapes, Debates and Audiotape: Inventive Curricular Techniques

Charlottesville, VA – University of Virginia’s Summer Institute for Academic Diversity

• Don’t Make Them Do It Again – Compact!
• The Art and Lyric of Collaboration: Melding Fine Arts with Differentiation

State Venues

Potomac Falls, VA - Northern Virginia Council on G/T Education Conference

• Staff Development Writ Large and Small

Richmond, VA – Virginia Association for Gifted Children Conference

• Beyond Artifacts: Research in Microcosm

Regional & Local Venues

Lynchburg, VA – Linkhorne Elementary School – Differentiation workshop series

• Playing with Principles of Differentiation
• A Potent Technique: Tiering a Lesson

Buena Vista, VA – Gifted Learners and Differentiation Strategies workshop series

• How Do I Recognize a Gifted Learner, and Why Should It Matter?
• Differentiation for All Learners in the Classroom

Charlottesville, VA – St. Anne’s Belfield School – Staff Development workshops

• Begin Tiering with the Equalizer

Orange, VA – Parent Night – Invited Speaker

• The Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children

Culpeper, VA – Regional Parent Conference – keynote speaker

Waynesboro, VA – County Gifted Program – keynote speaker

Academic, teacher-oriented, and parent-friendly articles are three types of publications that Dr. Solow has written.  These include:

• “What Parents Want: In Their Own Words,” Understanding our Gifted
  
  
• “Parents’ Conceptions of Giftedness,” Gifted Child Today
  
  
• GGC News, write and edit
  
  
• “A Birthday Letter for your Gifted Child,” Parenting for High Potential
  
  
• “Tae Kwon Do for the Gifted Child,” Parenting for High Potential
  
  
• “Parents’ Reasoning about the Social and Emotional Development of their Intellectually Gifted Children,” *Roeper Review
  
  * President’s Award, Eastern Educational Research Association
  
  
• “Bringing out the Best,” Book Review, Journal for the Education of the Gifted
  
  
• “What You See is not Necessarily What You’ve Got,” VAEG News