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Teachers’ Roundtable: Developing Social Skills
The Teachers’ Roundtable is a panel of teachers spanning various subjects at Bridges Academy, a school dedicated to educating twice-exceptional students. Each month, the panel answers one submitted question. This month’s question is: What strategies or tips can you provide for integrating social skills and understanding into units, activities and daily routines of your classroom? … Continue reading
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Selling the importance of classic literature to the 21st century student is tricky business. For students who grew up in the digital age with instant communication and quick access to a seemingly limitless amount of information, trudging through The Grapes of Wrath is even less appealing than it was for pre-Internet high school students. I … Continue reading
The Teachers’ Roundtable is a panel of teachers spanning various subjects at Bridges Academy, a school dedicated to educating twice-exceptional students. Each month, the panel answers one submitted question. This month’s question is: What subject do you teach, and what is one strategy you use to engage a student or students for whom your subject … Continue reading
In the spring of 2009, Bridges Academy initiated a conversation with the members of the National Research Center on Gifted and Talented and the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students (AEGUS) about a pervasive, ongoing unwillingness to accept the notion that students can be both gifted and learning disabled at the same time … Continue reading
