Gifted Coordinator Toolkit

Gifted Coordinator Toolkit

Maximize the growth of your advanced learners.

Are you a new Gifted Coordinator, unsure about where to begin? Or are you a Curriculum and Instruction Director wanting to refresh your Advanced Academic programming? Maybe you’re a teacher struggling to differentiate instruction within your classroom.

This toolkit is for you.

Written by an experienced educator and district leader, Monica Simonds, M.Ed., this toolkit provides guiding questions, resources, and best practices to help you build your Gifted program, strengthen your Advanced Academic enrichment, or provide individualized strengths-based instruction to meet every learner’s unique needs. Use the navigation bar below to access the self-guided modules or navigate to the modules in any order based on the topics most pertinent to your professional learning.

Module 1

Job Embedded Professional Learning

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Module 2

Language Matters

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Module 3

Leveraging Conversations

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Module 4

Gifted Identification & Service Models

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Module 5

Universal Screening & Norming Practices

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Module 6

Multiple Pathways & Differentiated Services

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Module 7

The Power of GT in the PLC

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Module 8

Clustering & Flexible Grouping

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Module 9

Student Goal-Setting

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Module 10

CogAT + Achievement Data = Growth

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Module 11

GT in MTSS

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Module 12

GT & Emerging Bilingual

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Module 13

Acceleration

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