In my classroom, I strive to provide an expanded curriculum; a needs-based flexibility in pacing; a variety of opportunities for creative problem solving and the development of higher level thinking skills. Currently, one of the hallmarks of the gifted program at Bellair is that the students are given time for interaction with other gifted students. SAGErs are working on getting.

Reminders of why I became a teacher over twenty years ago. My Own Struggle and Frustration and How it Helped Me. It has been a long time since my last post. I had to put the blog aside as my commitments as a father, principal, and a student simply did not allow the time. I am hoping that I could get going again at the same pace on which I started almost a year ago. Despite the scheduled vacation during the week of Febr.