If you need to pick up some additional pd hours for gifted here are 3 of them for $45. Can be found at grassroots workshops.com

Looking for a good book to read over the winter break? Here is one I wrote on some strategies for motivating difficult to motivate students

Teachers from Green City Schools picking up some additional strategies for how to work with their gifted students

Talking to teachers from around Wooster about ways to best motivate tough to motivate students. Relevance, choice, and engaging their minds sure help a lot

Overall just a wonderful conference put on by the Indiana Association for the Gifted. Well organized and well attended.

The only thing better than presenting to a packed house is presenting to a packed house right across the way from a minor league baseball park. The great teachers of Indiana learning about strategies to motivate gifted children

Washington Local Social Studies teachers learning about ways to make the classroom more authentic including games such as this one where participants use economic concepts such as supply and demand, surplus, scarcity, and monopolies in order to hug and sell goods in the international marketplace

The folks in Hancock County know how to put on professional development. Always have interesting conversations when working with teachers there

NHS from Central came down to partner with the NJHS from Ridgeview in order to made blankets for those in need during the holiday