Description

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Master flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to challenge every learner, every day.

Grouping learners purposefully throughout the school day based on their needs and the curriculum remains the single best way to differentiate instruction. This award-winning guide will help teachers expertly use flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to respond to students’ diverse learning needs, abilities, and interests. Included are methods for creating groups based on assessment data, planning group lessons and tiered assignments, engaging learners at all levels, supporting personalized learning, grading collaborative work, and communicating with parents about the benefits of groupwork and productive struggle. Digital content contains all forms from the book and a PDF presentation. A free online PLC/Book Study Guide is available at freespirit.com/PLC.

About the Author

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Dina Brulles, Ph.D., is the gifted program coordinator at Arizona State University and the former director of gifted education at Paradise Valley Unified School District in Arizona. She recently served as NAGC’s Governance Secretary and also as the board’s school district representative.

Dina received the prestigious 2022 NAGC Ann F. Isaacs Founder’s Memorial Award. She was also the recipient of the 2019 and the 2020 NAGC Book of the Year Award (for practitioners), NAGC’s inaugural 2014 Gifted Coordinator Award, and the Professional Development Network Award in 2013.

Dina has actively supported and served as a mentor for the Javits Frasier Scholarship Program since 2010. Dr. Brulles’ work emphasizes and encourages equitable and inclusive identification practices and programming in gifted education. By sharing her interests and experiences, Dr. Brulles supports others in their efforts to develop all our gifted learners’ potential.

Karen L. Brown, M.Ed., is an education consultant and a gifted program mentor at Paradise Valley Unified School District in Arizona. She was previously an elementary school gifted specialist and a professor of gifted education at Arizona State University.

Karen lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Praise For…

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2019 Book of the Year Award
— NAGC

2019 Legacy Book Award for Educators
— TAGT

“This guide helps dispel the myths surrounding ability grouping while providing effective teaching practices and real-life classroom scenarios for various grouping models.”

  “Highly valuable.”— MiddleWeb
— MiddleWeb

“A great resource that could transform the classrooms in your school. Recommended.”
— School Library Connection

“A thoroughly user-friendly guide that will help classroom teachers expertly use flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to respond to their students’ diverse learning needs, abilities, and interests. Unreservedly recommended!”