Attention Colorado Gifted Educators! Upcoming Project Eagle Workshop Alert: April 17 and 20. (This is not an April Fool's Day Joke.) To learn more or to sign up, go to s.uconn.edu/GTID #uconngifted #projecteagle_gt #coloradogifted
Check out what Project EAGLE has been up to--and we are not done yet! Teachers in Colorado, Arizona, or Texas, sign up for or request a free one-day talent-spotting in mathematics workshop at identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer/ #uconngifted #projecteagle_gt #aagt #CAGT #tagt
Hello Arizona friends! We look forward to seeing you at AAGT conference tomorrow and Wednesday. Come to our session led by Project EAGLE trainers on Wednesday from 1:30 to 2:30, and be sure to visit Kelly at the UConn booth both days. #uconngifted #projecteagle_gt #aagt2026
The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team had a great time meeting Texas teachers and administrators at the @Texas Association for the Gifted & Talented conference. #uconngifted If you want to sign up for a no-cost workshop, sign up here: identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer/
📢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/
#projecteagle_gt #uconngifted #EL @txgifted
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
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
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:
slate.com/technology/2...
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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?
#UConnGifted #FractionFeud
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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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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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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_____.
#UConnGifted #ELLStrategies
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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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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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The #ProjectEAGLE_GT team and Happy the Penguin need your help!
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ProjectileMotion #CutePenguins
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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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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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#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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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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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
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #math_puzzle
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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
#GT #UConnGifted
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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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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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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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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!
Learn more about POP 9:https://buff.ly/3C6FREI
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted
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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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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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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
https://buff.ly/4fSgWCk
#UConnGifted #EL
Teacher: What is 3-(-1)?
Antonio: 4
T: Can you explain?
A: Subtracting a negative is the same as adding
T: Can you justify that?
A: 3-1=2, 3-0=3, and 3-(-1)=4: the same as +1
T: Great thinking! That is an example of #ProjectEAGLE_GT POP 5: Logical Reasoning.
