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Guest Post: Gifted Cluster Grouping—Making It Work!
By Dina Brulles, coauthor of The Cluster Grouping Handbook and Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom Professional Development Multimedia Package An observer in Mrs. Peterson’s gifted-cluster...
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Guest Post: Teach the Way They Learn
By Susan Winebrenner, author of Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom “If they are not learning the way we are teaching them, we must teach them the way they learn!” This quote from Kenneth Dunn, a...
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Ed Tech: Managing Training in Your Future
Teachers are learners, too. And differentiation applies to how teachers learn as well. If you purchased any new computerized device in the last few years—smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or even a...
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Becoming a Teacherpreneur: A Long and Winding Road, Part 1
By Ryan R. Goble, M.A., author of Making Curriculum Pop A few ideas on ways teachers can expand their careers beyond the classroom. Most of my working life has been an interesting mix of creative...
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Becoming a Teacherpreneur: A Long and Winding Road, Part 2
By Ryan R. Goble, M.A., author of Making Curriculum Pop More ideas on how teachers can expand their careers outside the classroom. The famous Brazilian educator Paulo Freire said, “The teacher is . . ....
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Professional Learning That Energizes Teachers and Brings Change to the Classroom
By Diane Heacox, Ed.D, author of Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms (Updated Edition) It’s time to admit that professional learning sessions that...
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8 Ways Teachers Can Learn This Summer
By Andrew Hawk For many teachers, summer is a time to relax and recharge their batteries for the next school year. It is a time to reflect on the practices of the previous school year. There are many...
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Summer SMART Goals for Teachers
By Andrew Hawk SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. This describes the type of goals many teachers make at the beginning of a school year. These goals are...
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Top 19 Posts of 2019
Before we jump into a new year of fantastic advice on the Free Spirit Publishing blog, let’s celebrate the top posts from 2019! We rounded up our most popular posts this year for your (re)reading...
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How Educators Can Use Social Media for Good
By Stephanie Filio, M.Ed., author of Responding to Student Trauma: A Toolkit for Schools in Times of Crisis Social media has taken on a Shakespearian role in our lives in which we love it and we hate...
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Professional Development in Early Childhood Education: Combating Burnout...
By Molly Breen The weight and strain of the pandemic has stretched most of us beyond what we thought was our limit. We have bowed and bent; we’ve pivoted until we’ve worn out the soles of our shoes. We...
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How to Include Self-Care for Educators in Professional Development
By Stephanie Filio, M.Ed., author of Responding to Student Trauma: A Toolkit for Schools in Times of Crisis Students and staff both need validation in their lives and need to feel as if they are living...
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Professional Development as a Leadership Opportunity
By Chris Amirault, Ph.D., and Christine Snyder, M.A., coauthors of Finding Your Way Through Conflict: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators In our work with early childhood educators on developing...
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Getting the Most Out of Summer: Virtual and Real-Time Professional Development
By Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., author of Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn Part of our Cash in on Learning series by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Click to read other Cash in...
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Supporting Twice-Exceptional Students: A Q&A from Emily Kircher-Morris
By Emily Kircher-Morris, author of Teaching Twice-Exceptional Learners in Today’s Classroom Twice-exceptional (2e) learners are a unique layering of advanced cognitive ability (giftedness) and...
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8 Ways Principals Can Make Time for Teachers to Collaborate
By Andrew Hawk One of the best ways to ensure the success of a school is collaboration among teachers. Collaboration promotes a school’s curriculum being followed with fidelity and provides all...
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6 Tips for Creating Engaging Professional Development for Educators
By Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., author of Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn Part of our Cash in on Learning series by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Click to read other Cash in...
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On the Search for Books for Educators, by Educators
by Tom Rademacher, acquisitions editor for professional resources for Free Spirit Publishing and Shell Education If you’ve met me in the past sixteen years, you’ve likely known me as a teacher. That...
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