GREAT THINKING THURSDAY
For Klein ISD Educators of Gifted Learners
August 22, 2019
The Klein Advanced Academics department partnered with Roth Elementary School to create two high-ability, multi-age classrooms. The program was built on a foundation of relationship-focused teachers, seamless differentiation, project-based learning, and a technology-rich environment.
Cultivate Talent: Learn Together: Executive Function
What's Executive Function—and Why Does it Matter?
Executive function is the brain's air traffic controller, intercepting a tangle of inbound thoughts and impulses and steering them towards safe, productive outcomes. Executive function allows children to improve their abilities to stay focused, plan ahead, regulate their emotions, and think flexibly and creatively.
Cultivating these skills, the research suggests, should be a priority from elementary school through high school—and perhaps even into college—and executive function remains one of the most reliable predictors of success in academics and in life, beating out test scores, IQ, and socioeconomic status.
(2019, August 15). What's Executive Function-and Why Does it Matter? Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/video/whats-executive-function-and-why-does-it-matter
GT Professional Learning Playlist
Reimagine Learning: Social Emotional Learning
By Marissa King
Edutopia
August 20, 2019
Using shared narratives is an effective strategy to build positive classroom culture while introducing or reinforcing SEL skills. In addition, it requires minimal teacher prep and is easily customized to fit different kinds of subject matter.
Read more here
SAT Ambassador PSAT/SAT 2019 FAll Boot Camps!
GT/Advanced Course Teachers-Please assist us with marketing this fantastic opportunity to prepare for and earn SCHOLARSHIP dollars for students who score beyond College Readiness Benchmarks!
SAVE THE DATE: GT SUMMIT: SEPT 28, 2019
CALLING ALL EDUCATORS AS PRESENTERS!
Two Kinds of Parent-Teacher Conferences
By Ben Johnson
Edutopia
October 5, 2015
Whether conferences are planned or spontaneous, a preexisting dialogue with parents and readiness to praise student strengths can open the door to mutually supporting student improvement.
Successful parent conferences are opportunities to further develop a cooperative bond with the parent that we started with phone calls, email, or texts about the good things and areas of improvement for their child. The best use of our conference time is to synergistically brainstorm with parents on how we can move students to higher achievement and learning, set goals, and create an action plan for both parents and teachers.