Comments for Coppell Gifted Association http://coppellgifted.org Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:43:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on How to start a chess club by Infinity Chess http://coppellgifted.org/2010/10/17/how-to-start-a%c2%a0chess%c2%a0club/#comment-320 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:43:33 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=4962#comment-320 Wonderful work, keep it going! learnt a lot from this!

]]> Comment on IB or AP? by She-Bear http://coppellgifted.org/2011/10/11/ib-or-ap/#comment-317 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:23:24 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=6331#comment-317 I struggle with the claim that IB “does not give a leg-up over AP”. What I found is that selective colleges will give, at most, a semester worth of credit for AP courses, no matter how many AP classes a student took. However, selective colleges will generally give IB diploma holders a full year of college credit….and probably view their applications are slightly stronger.

I think IB is a better fit for gifted students in general, particularly those who are gifted in both math and writing, and especially those who love to synthesize and debate what they have learned in multiple subjects.

]]> Comment on The Grass is Always Greener… lessons from a year abroad. by Zarin Pathan http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/17/the-grass-is-always-greener-lessons-from-a-year-abroad/#comment-298 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:35:18 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=6757#comment-298 I wasn’t planning on it being this big mystery- I just did not think it was that important or relevant to the points I was making. It was in Dubai.

]]> Comment on The Grass is Always Greener… lessons from a year abroad. by Venky Venkatraman (@vvenky) http://coppellgifted.org/2012/01/17/the-grass-is-always-greener-lessons-from-a-year-abroad/#comment-296 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:05:46 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=6757#comment-296 Very interesting and well written – just wondered why the author is being so mysterious about the “country” in which her child went to this international school (since there is no mention of any place other than Coppell in this article)??

]]> Comment on MOSAIC 2010 by todf http://coppellgifted.org/2010/08/10/mosaic-2010/#comment-295 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:04:08 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=5072#comment-295 Parents of children in the Mosaic June 8-12 Rocketry camp, your kids can use ““http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/rocket/rktsim.html” as an online rocket simulation tool. They have some background on using it from class.

Also, to see the type of rockets the children are launching, you can watch “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8kP8xzKkU&feature=channel_page”.

The winning launch from the 9 to 10:30 class is featured in the following video.
Other videos are on the same youtube site.

2nd class, sorry we did not do videos during your class as they did not seem to be recording well during the first class.

Viewable video for kids to show parents of what they are working on.

]]> Comment on Señor Poullard of CMS West Makes Learning Spanish Fun by Putney Student Travel │ Anthony Wins Teacher of the Year | Putney Student Travel http://coppellgifted.org/2010/05/13/senor-poullard-of-cms-west-makes-learning-spanish-fun/#comment-281 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:55:35 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=4433#comment-281 [...] at Dallas Baptist University. Click here to read his full bio. He was also featured in this great news story by the Coppell Gifted Association. This entry was posted in Argentina, Community Service, [...]

]]> Comment on Understanding intensity by Christine Fonseca http://coppellgifted.org/2011/09/29/understanding-intensity/#comment-253 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:51:49 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=6454#comment-253 HA! I love that poem too. Obviously :D

]]> Comment on National Parenting Gifted Children Week, July 17-23 by Lisa http://coppellgifted.org/2011/07/15/national-parenting-gifted-children-week-july-17-23/#comment-247 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:34:45 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=6048#comment-247 Thank you for sharing these links and resources!
~ Lisa

]]> Comment on Member’s Corner: An Indian perspective after watching “Waiting for Superman” by Venky Venkatraman http://coppellgifted.org/2011/05/01/members-corner-an-indian-perspective-after-watching-waiting-for-superman/#comment-245 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:45:22 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=5761#comment-245 Article in New York Times (link below) reports that teacher’s union shifts its position on Teacher Evaluations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/us/05teachers.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

]]> Comment on Member’s Corner: 2 million minutes movie review by Sakshi Venkatraman http://coppellgifted.org/2011/03/14/2-million-minutes-review/#comment-244 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:20:00 +0000 http://coppellgifted.org/?p=5551#comment-244 That is very interesting. I love hearing about your magical childhood.

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