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  • Using Google My Maps in the Gifted Classroom: Mapping The Global Innovation Lab

    Using Google My Maps in the Gifted Classroom: Mapping The Global Innovation Lab

    The Global Innovation Lab is growing! 🌎🚀 In this post, I share how Google My Maps is helping us connect classrooms around the world so students can collaborate on real-world challenges like water conservation. If you want your students to think bigger, create meaningful solutions, and learn alongside students from other communities and countries, I…


  • Stop Giving Every Gifted Student the Same Assignment: A Better Way to Differentiate

    Stop Giving Every Gifted Student the Same Assignment: A Better Way to Differentiate

    Discover how the #smithingifted curriculum transforms differentiation by allowing gifted students to learn at their own pace through four levels of challenge: Explorer, Engineer, Innovator, and Visionary. Instead of giving every student the same assignment or making advanced learners wait, this approach promotes student choice, independence, creativity, and authentic problem-solving. Learn how self-paced learning, badge-based…


  • Build Your own My Teacher Second Brain

    A Simple AI Context Tool for Educators By Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingifted Every time you start a new AI conversation, the tool usually starts from zero. It does not automatically know who you are, what you teach, how you communicate, what your students need, or what kind of support actually helps you. My…