Dr. Katherine Gavin is an associate professor at the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut where she serves as the math specialist. She is currently the Principal Investigator and Director of a five-year Javits Grant, Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds that involves the development of math curriculum units for talented students in grades 3, 4, and 5, national field-test implementation, and professional development for teachers. She is also Principal Investigator and Director of a new five-year NSF Grant, Project M2: Advanced Math Curriculum for Primary Students. Kathy has 30 years of experience in education as a mathematics teacher and curriculum coordinator, elementary assistant principal, and assistant professor of mathematics education. She is presently coauthoring a middle school mathematics textbook series, is a member of the writing team for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Navigations series and has co-authored a series of creative problem solving books.

Education:

• Ph.D.,Gifted and Talented and Mathematics Education, University of Connecticut, 1997
• M.Ed., Supervision and Administration, Loyola University, 1985
• B.A., Mathematics, Emmanuel College, 1972

Dr. Sally M. Reis is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at The University of Connecticut and the past Department Head of Educational Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as a Principal Investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored or co-authored over 250 articles, books, book chapters, monographs and technical reports. Her most recent work is a computer-based assessment of student strengths integrated with an Internet based search engine that matches enrichment activities and resources with individual student profiles [www.renzullilearning.com].

Her research interests are related to special populations of gifted and talented students, including: students with learning disabilities, gifted females and diverse groups of talented students. She is also interested in extensions of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for both gifted and talented students and as a way to expand offerings and provide general enrichment to identify talents and potentials in students who have not been previously identified as gifted. She is the Co-Director of Confratute, [www.gifted.uconn.edu/Confratute], the longest running summer institute in the development of gifts and talents. She has been a consultant to numerous schools and ministries of education throughout the U. S. and abroad and her work has been translated into several languages and is widely used around the world.

She is co-author of The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, The Secondary Triad Model, Dilemmas in Talent Development in the Middle Years, and a book published in 1998 about women’s talent development entitled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females. Sally serves on several editorial boards, including the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past President of the National Association for Gifted Children. She recently was honored with the highest award in her field as the Distinguished Scholar of the National Association for Gifted Children and named a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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