Encourage your gifted student to explore math and science learning, even if that’s not their strongest area. The United States is falling behind other countries in STEM learning. Unfortunately, it probably take a grass-roots effort by parents to increase schools’ emphasis on math and science. President Obama is saying all the right things, but we [...]
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NAGC – WOW Virtual Conference
NAGC – WOW Virtual Conference. I’ve attended a couple of local NAGC conferences, and every conference has been extremely useful to help me be an advocate for my gifted. If you have an opportunity to attend one in person you should, but if NAGC offers a virtual conference if you can’t attend in person. Every [...]
Skill-level Grouping, Not Grade-level Grouping
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Forget about students spending one year in each grade, with the entire class learning the same skills at the same time. Districts from Alaska to Maine are taking a different route. Instead of simply moving kids from one grade to the next as they get older, schools are grouping students [...]
