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CTD Backpack for Teachers

On-demand and Live Professional Learning Resources that Address Current Topics

Professional Learning at Your Fingertips

Join CTD Backpack for Teachers, a resource created by CTD consisting of on-demand webinars and live virtual applied practice sessions that provide teachers with tips, best practices, and easy to use materials to enhance instruction. Each series available through CTD Backpack for Teachers addresses a topic educators and administrators have identified as a priority for professional learning.

All resources in each series have been created and facilitated by CTD’s expert program staff members to include examples and insights drawn from CTD’s programs and experience working in schools.

Explore the currently available series below. Contact ctd-school-services@northwestern.edu with questions.

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Other Professional Learning Opportunities

Explore other webinars, workshops, and courses for educators, administrators, and directors of youth programs. CTD will keep you informed about developments in the field of gifted education and support your efforts to successfully meet the unique educational and social-emotional needs of students with exceptional academic abilities.

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