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Implementing Enrichment Binders for High-Achieving and Gifted Learners

With the right strategies for differentiated instruction, planning tips, resources, and mindset, differentiated instruction doesn’t have to be overwhelming.

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The Best Strategies for Differentiated Instruction (Without Burning Out)

Dive into some of the differences between gifted and high-achieving students and learn practical strategies that help each group thrive.

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Gifted and High-Achieving Students: How to Identify and Support These Students

Here are the unexpected traits of gifted students that can hinder their success or well-being and ways to help these students thrive both in and out of the classroom.

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15 Unexpected Traits of Gifted Students

High-ceiling math tasks are tiered activities that help all students succeed, but they are especially beneficial to help gifted students grow.

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High-Ceiling Math Tasks for Gifted Learners

Learn how to organize meaningful early finisher activities that cater to diverse student needs, promote independence, promote critical thinking, and encourage student growth.

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Meaningful Early Finisher Activities

Explore gifted enrichment tips, effective strategies, and resources to engage and challenge your gifted learners in the general education classroom.

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Gifted Enrichment Tips for the General Education Classroom

Many gifted students experience some level of perfectionism. Here are ways you can provide support & combat perfectionism in gifted students.

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How to Combat Perfectionism in Gifted Students

5 classroom tips for enrichment and differentiation for gifted learners, which is just as important as accommodations for struggling learners.

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Differentiating and Meeting the Needs of Gifted Learners

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FREEEE for your classroom tomorrow morning! Commen FREEEE for your classroom tomorrow morning! Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to print this Find Someone Who made especially for tomorrow morning. 🏈 There’s no way around it — all of our kids are going to be talking about the big game, so instead of resisting it, I lean into it and let them get the chatter out of their systems! 🩷💕Whether your students watched the game, ate snacks, enjoyed commercials, or didn’t even know it was on, they’ll love starting their day moving around and chatting with their peers.
It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentin It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentine’s Day classroom traditions — Compliment Bags for all of their cards and goodies! 🩷💕 Here’s why I love this so much 👇👇

Truth: I have never been a huge fan of having students bring in their own decorated bags and boxes because inevitably, some are the most elaborate creations you’ve ever seen, while others forget them completely. 😬😬 So, I started using this idea in 2009 after learning about it from my cooperating teacher, and it NEVER gets old. 

✍️ I incorporate it into my writing block in the few days before Valentine’s Day so that students can use excellent vocab and write beautiful sentences to one another then transfer them to the bags on Valentine’s Day!

💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the details about how I implement this into my classroom, including how I get students to write genuine, specific compliments and which bags I use!

I have been sharing this on my blog and socials since 2011, and every single year, I look forward to seeing all the compliment bags YOUR students make. It truly brings me so much joy!
It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I love using this quick math challenge in the few days before and after the biggest game of the year (even if my team isn’t playing this year 😭😜). Comment below, and I’ll send you this no-prep resource to bring the game into your classroom!
Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come t Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come to accept it. 🤷‍♀️
The games are finally coming this week, and I can’t WAIT to start incorporating them into my classroom!! 👏 We just wrapped up ELEVEN new podcasts (over 60 minutes of content) for the classroom focusing on winter sports, and I can’t wait to get started! These are always SUCH a huge hit with my students. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the info for ALL of my Winter Games plans over the next few weeks!
Take a look at the current state of my classroom a Take a look at the current state of my classroom absolutely COVERED in books and tell me…What is YOUR favorite book in your classroom right now? 👇

🌟 Last week, I looked around my room and took a moment to appreciate all the beautiful books we’ve read over the past few weeks or plan to read soon. I use these books during morning meeting, for literacy lessons, to focus in on personal growth goals my students have, etc. By putting them up around the room, I generate interest in the stories, remind students of the important lessons learned in certain books we’ve read, and expose students to many different ideas about life, the world, and the nature of humans. They are TRULY one of the single greatest tools I have as a teacher. 🩷💕
I teach high achieving, gifted identified students I teach high achieving, gifted identified students, and if they end their time with me understanding just one thing, I want it to be this. 💕🩷 

This poster is adapted from my lesson on perfectionism with the book Ish by Peter Reynolds and accompanied by other excellent books for overcoming this challenge. Comment below for the book companion, or save the anchor chart to create with your students.
Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift t Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift tags (lots of options!) and a link to these cuties. 🩷💕 #studentgifts #valentines
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