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Marriott Hotel Overland Park
10800 MetcalfOverland Park, KS
At the intersection of I-435 and Metcalf
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Keynote Full Bios:
Del Siegle is a professor and head of the educational psychology department in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut where he has been honored as a teaching fellow. Prior to earning his Ph.D., Del worked as a gifted and talented coordinator in Montana and is a past president of Montana AGATE (Association of Gifted and Talented Education). He is also past president of the National Association of Gifted Children and serves on the board of directors of The Association for the Gifted (CEC-TAG). He has been co-editor of the Journal of Advanced Academics and authors a technology column for Gifted Child Today. Del recently joined Gary Davis and Sylvia Rimm as authors of the sixth edition of the popular textbook, Education of the Gifted and Talented. Del’s research interests include web-based instruction, motivation of gifted students, and teacher bias in the identification of students for gifted programs.
Susan G. Assouline is a professor of school psychology at The University of Iowa and the associate director of the UI Belin-Blank Center. She received her B. S. in general science with a teaching endorsement, her Ed.S. in School Psychology, and her Ph.D. in Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, all from The University of Iowa. Upon completion of her doctorate, she was awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University and subsequently joined the Belin-Blank Center in 1990. She is especially interested in academically talented elementary students and is co-author (with Ann Shoplik) of both editions of Developing Math (2005, 2011). As well, she is co-developer of The Iowa Acceleration Scale (2009), a tool designed to guide educators and parents through decisions about accelerating students. In 2004, she co-authored, with Nicholas Colangelo and Miraca U. M. Gross, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. Dr. Assouline has served on the editorial board of Gifted Child Quarterly She has conducted numerous workshops for parents and teachers on acceleration, development of mathematical talent, and twice-exceptional students (gifted/ students with a disability). In 2005, she received the University of Iowa Board of Regents Staff Excellence Award. In 2007 and 2010 she received the Mensa Education & Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research
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