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15 Ways to Help Gifted Kids Thrive in School
15 ways to help gifted kids thrive in school with ideas that work for lots of kids, so everyone will find ideas they can apply right away.
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Digital Kanban Board for Students
If you’ve got students or a child struggling to keep track of assignments or feeling overwhelmed with the amount of work they need to accomplish,
Why You Should Not Use Gifted Students as Tutors
Gifted students should not be used as tutors for other students as standard practice. This should not be a controversial statement, and yet somehow it
Encouraging Words about Virtual Learning
Teachers shifting to virtual learning from an in-person only environment can feel overwhelmed. It’s hard not to get caught up in logins and device issues
6 Steps to Prepare for Blended Virtual Learning
Are you facing a year’s worth of learning experiences designed for regular classroom instruction, not knowing where to begin to convert it to a whole
How to Make Distance Learning Engaging
We can make distance learning more engaging for learners. I know this is true because I’ve been engaging hundreds of students simultaneously in distance learning,
How I Became the Country’s English Teacher
Saturday morning at 7:28am I became the country’s English teacher. I didn’t know it at the time, of course, which is how these things usually
Beginning of the Year Parent Forms
Sending home classroom parent permission forms typically occurs at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, no one teaches you how to do it. In college
Making Choice Menus Better
Choice menus (sometimes called Extension Menus or Choice Boards or fifty other titles) are a foundational technique for many teachers. Typically, they’re a grid somewhat
Group Work Feedback: How and Why
If you want to do group work really well, you need to allow the students to give feedback on how they worked in groups, and
Trying to Make School Better for Gifted Kids
Here’s a newsflash: school is not designed for gifted kids. When you recover from the shock, read on. Depending upon who you talk to, school
Gifted Teachers Speak: You are Enough
I don’t know about you, but I’ve really been enjoying the Interview with a Gifted Kid series. I’ve interviewed gifted kids and grown up gifted
Fixing a Group Work Project
A 6th grade social studies teacher who attended a session I did on effective grouping strategies for students asked if I would help out with
