Nothing is as interesting as someone else’s business! Life stories — biographies — have been used to teach lessons for centuries. Whether you teach art, literacy, science, social studies, music or math, there are creative biographies that can be used to differentiate any curriculum unit. In the new NAGC Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards, biography study is specifically noted in Standard 3, Curriculum Planning and Instruction, as a means of meeting the needs of gifted students for culturally relevant experiences and career exploration. Learn strategies for incorporating biography effectively to differentiate the curriculum. Engage in cross-curricular learning activities to implement in your classroom. Review example trade biographies. Master the steps to creating a teacher guide, a Blueprint for Biography, for your favorite life story. Leave this session with biography-based activities that focus on talent development. And…take home a bibliography of exemplary biographies for the elementary grades.