Prosper Connects 26: Your Ultimate Professional Learning Adventure! Get Ready for the most incredible day of learning in Prosper ISD! July 30th at Walnut Grove High School | Over 300 Sessions Await!
Calling all educators! Prepare for a day packed with inspiration, innovation, and incredible learning opportunities. From the electrifying drumline welcome to the delicious indoor lunch options from the Walnut Grove cafeteria serving up a variety of food, this isn’t just another professional development day – it’s a celebration of education! ✨ Highlights:
👕Attire: Favorite Team Jersey, jeans, and comfortable shoes
🚍Grab the Shuttle from Rock Hill HS (16061 N Coit Rd, Frisco, TX 750) for easy parking (runs every 20 min)
🥁 Epic Drumline Kick-Off
☕Breakfast Options: Union Coffee and Baked Goods & Sonic
🌮 INSIDE Lunch options provided by Aramark and Hardy’s Cafe: Union Coffee, Cane’s, Chick-fil-A, Jimmy John’s, Sonic, Pizza Hut, Greens & Grains, Sushi, Taco Line, & Hardy’s Cafe
🧠 GT Credit Sessions Available (sessions that are orange = GT)
SpeedGeeking is a fast-paced, high-energy session where passionate GT educators share their favorite tools, resources, and strategies — all in just four minutes before the buzzer sounds. Think of it as a greatest hits collection for your GT toolkit. Whether our GT geek squad arrives loaded with a repertoire of must-have resources or zeroes in on their single all-time favorite, every round delivers fresh, classroom-ready ideas designed to hook your gifted learners and propel them into the heart of the learning. Walk away with practical strategies to spark curiosity, fuel cognitive breakthroughs, and ignite the kind of deep engagement that GT students crave. This is professional learning at its most dynamic — come ready to discover, think, and leave inspired.
Gifted learners don’t need to go faster; they need to go deeper. When mastery happens in minutes, more of the same is just time-filling. Move beyond "busy work" by trading volume for intellectual complexity. This session shifts the teacher’s mindset from providing answers to leading investigations, ensuring every gifted student is met with the challenge they deserve. Come and learn a hands-on session designed to help you "Teach Up" without changing your core lesson plan. You’ll learn how to keep your GT cluster engaged with the same grade-level topics as their peers, but through the sophisticated lenses of an expert.
Gifted learners don’t need to go faster; they need to go deeper. When mastery happens in minutes, more of the same is just time-filling. Move beyond "busy work" by trading volume for intellectual complexity. This session shifts the teacher’s mindset from providing answers to leading investigations, ensuring every gifted student is met with the challenge they deserve. Come and learn a hands-on session designed to help you "Teach Up" without changing your core lesson plan. You’ll learn how to keep your GT cluster engaged with the same grade-level topics as their peers, but through the sophisticated lenses of an expert.
SpeedGeeking is a fast-paced, high-energy session where passionate GT educators share their favorite tools, resources, and strategies — all in just four minutes before the buzzer sounds. Think of it as a greatest hits collection for your GT toolkit. Whether our GT geek squad arrives loaded with a repertoire of must-have resources or zeroes in on their single all-time favorite, every round delivers fresh, classroom-ready ideas designed to hook your gifted learners and propel them into the heart of the learning. Walk away with practical strategies to spark curiosity, fuel cognitive breakthroughs, and ignite the kind of deep engagement that GT students crave. This is professional learning at its most dynamic — come ready to discover, think, and leave inspired.
Words matter — for every learner, in every classroom. Whether you're nurturing a gifted thinker hungry for depth or supporting an English language learner building their linguistic foundation, rich vocabulary instruction is the bridge that connects them both. In this collaborative session, an ESL specialist and a GT specialist team up to guide you through vocabulary activities that do more than build vocabulary — they build minds. You'll walk away with a collection of engaging, classroom-ready activities designed to stretch thinking, deepen understanding, and ignite a genuine love of language in all your learners. Great word work doesn’t just build vocabulary, it builds thinkers.
