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📢Attention Texas Educators! Can you figure out who comes next in the sequence of talent spotters?
🫵You Do!
Sign up for a FREE interactive workshop across the 🤠Lone Star State 🐂 to learn how to spot talented ELs identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer/
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November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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This past week, the #Arizona #ProjectEagle_GT team trained teachers to spot talent through interactive math activities in two different workshops, and the #Coloradoteam gave a phenomenal presentation at the 47th annual #GAGT Conference. identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer/ #uconngifted
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Calling Our Friends in Colorado: Visit us at the 47th Annual Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented Annual Conference. The Colorado #ProjectEAGLE_GT team will present from 11:00-11:55 AM on Monday, October 20. See you there! #uconngifted
October 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team invites you to check out this reflection from a math teacher who realized how he exhibited the same behaviors he bemoaned in his students when he was outmatched by a topology course:

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June 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Math Puzzle 6 Answer🧩🧩🧩
The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team has been busily preparing to train our trainers this July.

To cut out each card on the sheet, what is the least number of cuts you would need to make?

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June 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team has been busily preparing to train our trainers this July.

Fraction Feud requires fraction cards cut from 5x4 sheets. To cut out each card on the sheet, what is the least number of cuts you would need to make?

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June 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🙋‍♀️ You never taught us this!
🧑‍🏫 Yes I did!
🙋‍♀️(to self): That teacher doesn’t teach.
🧑‍🏫 (to self): Students need to pay attention.
Prevent this with #Project_EAGLE_GT #ELL strategy 11: Structured Conversation.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This week, the #ProjectEAGLE_GT team is providing you with 4️⃣#ELL strategies to make key concepts and learning strategies explicit to students.

Which of these strategies do you use in your classroom?

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ClassroomVisuals

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May 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Providing Sentence Frames is the fourth #ProjectEAGLE_GT ELL strategy.
Here are some sentence frames for your comments below

My favorite sentence frame for students is ______.
I use sentences frames because_____.

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April 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The #projecteagle_gt Team identified 2 approaches to help Happy the Penguin.
1. Experimental
2. Using calculus
Can you find any others?
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ProjectileMotion #CutePenguins #calculusisfun

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April 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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New word for your math word wall:

Vinculum: The line in a fraction that separates the numerator and denominator.

Modeling and practicing academic vocabulary is the third #ProjectEAGLE_GT ELL strategy.

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ELLStrategies
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April 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team and Happy the Penguin need your help!

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ProjectileMotion #CutePenguins

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April 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team is excited to share with you the second of our 12 ELL Strategies: Building Background and Developing Academic Vocabulary.

#ELL #UConnGifted

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April 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team is excited to share with you the first of our 12 ELL Strategies: Setting Language Goals for Lessons.

If you set language goals in your lessons, comment below. ⬇️

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ELLStrategies
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March 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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#ProjectEAGLE_GT uses a dynamic approach to equitably spot #gifted #ELLs' potential via engaging, problem-based math activities in the elementary classroom. Teachers use 12 ELL strategies to engage learners.

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ELLStrategies

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March 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The #ProjectEagle_GT team promotes mathematical thinking every day but is willing to make Feb 29, 2025 a day off.
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #February29
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February 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Math Puzzle 2 🧩🧩🧩

Which One Does Not Belong?
This puzzle taps into #ProjectEAGLE_GT Point of Promise 9: Spatial Skills.

Answers to last week’s puzzle: https://buff.ly/4i7mcUq

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February 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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We hope you join the #ProjectEAGLE_GT Team as we take part in the #greatbackyardbirdcount Friday February 14-Monday February 17.

Learn more about how to get your class involved in as little as 15 minutes: https://birdcount.org

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February 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Hat Tip 🎩to Louisiana High School students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson!

Link to 60 minutes Video: https://buff.ly/40SOc7h

Finding original approaches to math problems new and old is #projecteagle_GT Point of Promise 5.

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February 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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If you are at the Arizona Annual Gifted Conference, be sure to stop by the #UConnGifted booth to say hello ✌️🤛🤘 to Dr. Siegle and our doctoral student Shana. Be sure to ask about how to become a #projecteagle_gt trainer. #GT #ELL #ArizonaGifted

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February 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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If you are attending the Arizona Annual Gifted Conference next Tuesday and Wednesday (February 4-5), be sure to stop by the UConn booth to learn more about becoming a #projecteagle_gt trainer.

#GT #ELL #ArizonaGifted #UConnGifted

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January 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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People who can solve Rubick’s cubes 🟥⬜🟦🟩🟨 are likely strong in #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 9: spatial skills.
Like or Comment if you can solve the Rubick's cube!

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Project EAGLE on Instagram: "People who can solve Rubick’s cubes 🟥⬜🟦🟩🟨 are likely strong in #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 9: spatial skills. Like or Comment if you can solve the Rubick's cube! (Javits PR/AWARD # S206A220040) #GT #ELL #UConnGifted ➡️Follow Project EAGLE at: https://linktr.ee/projecteagle_gt 🦅x.com/ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅www.threads.net/@projecteagle_gt 🦅https://www.instagram.com/projecteagle_gt/ 🦅projecteaglegt.bsky.social🦅s.uconn.edu/projecteagle"
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January 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Students who demonstrate #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 8 demonstrate a strong number sense. Students with number sense know how to organize numbers around base 10 for easier solving.

Example: 268+37 can be rearranged to 268+(32+5)=300+5=305.
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Project EAGLE on Instagram: "Students who demonstrate #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 8 demonstrate a strong number sense. Students with number sense know how to organize numbers around base 🔟 for easier solving. For example: 268+37 might be rearranged to 268+(32+5)=300+5=305. (Javits PR/AWARD # S206A220040) #GT #ELL #UConnGifted ➡️Follow Project EAGLE at: 🦅x.com/ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅www.threads.net/@projecteagle_gt 🦅https://www.instagram.com/projecteagle_gt/ 🦅projecteaglegt.bsky.social🦅s.uconn.edu/projecteagle"
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January 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Students who demonstrate #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 7 might spot patterns to help them solve problems like finding the 5th 6th 7th or 100th terms of this sequence:
2,7,14,23,___,___,___
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Project EAGLE on Instagram: "Students who demonstrate #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 7 might spot patterns to help them solve problems like finding the 5th 6th 7th or 100th terms of this sequence: 2,7,14,23,___,___,___ (Javits PR/AWARD # S206A220040) #GT #ELL #UConnGifted ➡️Follow Project EAGLE at: 🦅x.com/ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅www.threads.net/@projecteagle_gt 🦅https://www.instagram.com/projecteagle_gt/ 🦅s.uconn.edu/projecteagle"
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January 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Mom: We're going to 3 stores today
Sophia: That's6️⃣possibilities-3️⃣for our first,2️⃣for our second, 1️⃣for our last
M: Great thinking!
S: I wonder how many for 10 stores
M: That question is an example of #ProjectEAGLE_GT Point of Promise 6-original thinking
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Project EAGLE on Instagram: "Students who demonstrate #ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅Point of Promise 6 find novel approaches to solving mathematical problem and pose their own. Mom: We're going to 3 stores today Sophia: That's6️⃣possibilities-3️⃣for our first,2️⃣for our second, 1️⃣for our last M: Great thinking! S: I wonder how many for 10 stores M: That question is an example of #ProjectEAGLE_GT POP 6-original thinking Comment ⬇️ if you think you know the answer to Sophia’s question. (Javits PR/AWARD # S206A220040) #GT #ELL #UConnGifted ➡️Follow Project EAGLE at: 🦅x.com/ProjectEAGLE_GT 🦅www.threads.net/@projecteagle_gt 🦅https://www.instagram.com/projecteagle_gt/ 🦅s.uconn.edu/projecteagle"
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