professional development

What’s Your Sentence?

What’s your sentence? What is one sentence that would convey what you are all about? I loved this idea when I saw it in this video: It’s part of Dan Pink‘s work on motivation, which I love. I started incorporating “What’s your sentence?” into a professional development experience I facilitate.

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Five Things Teachers Need to Know

So, I just got back from the Georgia Gifted and Talented conference, and I’m heading out to another one in Austin, and in between I’m facilitating a lot of professional development for teachers. Having this sandwich of experience has led me to write about five things I think that teachers at professional development

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Teacher Learns some Lessons

I just finished six straight days of training teachers how to teach the gifted. The classes were large – between 150 and 175 teachers, which is fun, and I was struck with a few thoughts that I want to share: 1)      This strikes a chord with people. Many teachers expressed

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