The Definitive Guide to Depth and Complexity After successfully using the framework themselves, writing about it on their websites, and facilitating hundreds of hours of training, Ian Byrd and Lisa Van Gemert are bringing you an approachable, comprehensive guide to Depth and Complexity. In it, Ian and Lisa share 27 bite-sized chapters that will help you: * Show educators exactly how the framework works in a real, live classroom * Teach you what you need to know about all aspects of the framework * Address special situations, like working with early elementary grades and planning * Take you further in your Depth and Complexity practice than you ever thought possible You will gain a deep understanding By the end of The Gifted Guild's Guide to Depth and Complexity, you will understand the framework, how it fits in your classroom, what parts you may wish to ignore, how to change what you don't like about how you're currently using it, and why it's the tool you need to blow the ceiling off of your classroom.

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This critical volume provides readers with a deep understanding of why and how to differentiate curriculum and instruction to better meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of advanced and gifted learners. Offering clear, constructure frameworks for learning, chapters focus on four key concepts – review, reinforce, refine, and redefine – which help readers create individualized learning experiences and differentiate standards-based curriculums. Filled with specific examples, lessons, and units of study, this essential guide emphasizes differentiation as a means to differ the What (curriculum) as well as the How (instruction) to successfully respond to the many facets of students’ giftedness.

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Picking up where EMDR training leaves off, this book shows how EMDR can be used by therapists with different orientations, such as psychodynamic, Jungian, and cognitive. The book details how patients are helped immensely by the incorporation of EMDR into treatments for such illnesses as major depression, attachment disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and various personality disorders.