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Helping Gifted Learners Become Better Thinkers: SEL, Productive Struggle, and Real-World Problem Solving

By Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingufted Gifted students need more than harder assignments. They need opportunities to understand how they think, recognize what happens when learning becomes difficult, manage frustration, make mistakes, consider different perspectives, and keep going when the answer is not immediately obvious. That is exactly what I wanted this curriculum to…
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Finding Professional Development That Actually Works for the 3–5 Gifted Classroom 🚀

This blog post shares my love for finding meaningful professional development for the 3rd–5th grade gifted classroom. As a self-proclaimed PD junkie, I’m always looking for fresh ideas that support STEM, coding, robotics, maker education, creativity, and real-world problem solving. One of my favorite PD resources is Infosys Pathfinders, a free platform that offers valuable…