Description
Trainers Sheila Mulbry and Nicole Shannon share their personal best-practices on:
- Using mysteries in literature
- Developing puzzle fiction projects
- Creating personal response papers
- Identifying themes and vocabulary in literature
- Writing mini-research reports
And more!
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Presenter Bio
Nicole Shannon, M.Ed. has over 19 years of experience in gifted education. She currently serves as the Advanced Academics Specialist for Hutto ISD. Prior to joining her current district, Nicole served as the Coordinator of Gifted/Advanced Academic Services for Round Rock ISD for five years. She was a gifted specialist in Round Rock ISD for 10 years before taking this position. She has presented at the district, local, and state level to preservice and in-service teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents on a variety of topics in gifted education throughout her years in this field. Prior to moving to Round Rock, Nicole served as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, and school principal at private schools in Honolulu, HI, San Diego, CA, and Virginia Beach, VA. Nicole graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Learning and Development from the University of Texas at Austin and completed her M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership with a specialization in Gifted/Talented at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX.
Sheila Mulbry currently serves as Gifted Coordinator with Lockhart ISD. She is a constant advocate for
gifted students and their special needs and has presented staff development on gifted education for the
past 20 years at local, state, and national conventions. She obtained BA degrees in Humanities (‘83) and
Elementary Education (‘90) and holds ESL and Gifted Endorsements from the State. Awards include
TAGT’s 2019 Educator of the Gifted. Sheila is currently serving as TAGT’s Board of Directors, K-12
Representative.
SAUL – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Nice ideas to give options for the students to be creative to present their ideas of the book they have read.
Joyce – YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I liked it because it gave me different ideas to use in my classroom.
Cynthia – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This is great course with many helpful ideas. Thank you.
Kenzi – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
Very informative
Peter – TEAYS VALLEY LOCAL (verified owner) –
Fast and lots of good ideas! I loved it; I think there’s a lot of great information in here. There are lots of ideas I’d like to try with my class. I also feel like this allows for strong differentiation. I enjoy being able to take so much from a presentation.
Huichung – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD – SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very informative .
Juene’ – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
it was informative
Carsen – Private Pay (verified owner) –
Gives you creative ways to change a classroom and implement reading tools students need.
Laura – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this was a very useful course. I actually learned about some really useful tools that I could easily incorporate into one of my units of study.
Norma – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and book references to apply the differentiation strategies. I would really prefer for the presenters to include secondary books that my grade level would like to read as well.