Project EAGLE

📢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

Colorado, Texas, and Arizona: Who you gonna call? PROJECT EAGLE! We'll help you bust the barriers keeping talented students hidden.👻 identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer #azgifted #txgifted #cagt #uconngifted

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 Project EAGLE Team is excited to welcome Kelly Dausel-McGehee to the nest!
She is a National Board-Certified Teacher of gifted learners from Virginia.
Kelly received her MA through the Three Summers Program in 2005 and is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the Renzulli Center.

Welcome Kelly!

📷 ATTENTION: Arizona, Colorado, and Texas!
Join our free one-day, interactive math-based Project EAGLE workshopsoffered throughout the 2025–26 school year.
identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer/
Don’t see a convenient training listed? Submit a request here: s.uconn.edu/eaglerequest
#uconngifted

Meet the Project EAGLE Trainers! They are excited and ready to lead no-cost workshops in AZ, CO, & TX on unlocking hidden student talent in Gr. 3–5 classrooms. Visit identifygifted.education.uconn.edu/trainer/ to learn more about hosting or attending. #Gifted #GTELs #ELLs #MLs

Project EAGLE is a dynamic approach to equitably spot #gifted #ELLs' potential and talent via engaging, problem-based math activities in the elementary classroom—including our 9 Points of Promise (POPs). #UConnGifted

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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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#UConnGifted

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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?

#UConnGifted

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How would you prove that 8÷2=4?

Today, we bring you the 12th and final #Project_EAGLE_GT #ELL strategy—multiple modes of expression. There are many ways for students to show their thinking—some verbal and some not.

#UConnGifted #ELLStrategies

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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.
#UConnGifted
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While lectures and videos can be powerful teaching tools, they often cannot provide the same conceptual depth as direct experience.

That is why #Project_EAGLE_GT #ELL strategy 10 is Hands-on Learning

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #ELLStrategies
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We support building classroom cultures where all students feel comfortable sharing their thinking, even if not fully sure they have the right answer. One way of doing this is through the #Project_EAGLE_GT #ELL strategy 9: Randomization. #UConnGifted
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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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Math Puzzle 4 Answers🧩🧩🧩
Help The Kingdom of Eagle plan a parade!
Link to GeoGebra Solution and Activity: www.geogebra.org/m/htg5adzg

#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #math_puzzle #Geogebra
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Math Puzzle 4 🧩🧩🧩
Can you help The Kingdom of Eagle plan a parade?
Answers to last week’s puzzle: : www.instagram.com/p/DHKhXPERiiv/
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #math_puzzle
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Did anyone solve last week’s puzzle? 🧩

Answers:
On a ruler when we divide 4 by 1/8, we are dividing the 4-inch length into 32 1/8-inch sections.
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #math_puzzle
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Math Puzzle 3 🧩🧩🧩 Sometimes the hardest part of solving a problem is not finding the answer but figuring out what it means.

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#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #math_puzzle

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Did anyone solve last week’s puzzle? 🧩

New Puzzle Coming Out Tomorrow!
#GT #ELL #UConnGifted #whichonedoesnotbelong
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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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