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Executive Board
Lois is a supervisor and Principal of Special Education for the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of Southern Westchester in White Plains, New York. She directs, supervises, and provides comprehensive educational and support services for students in grades 1-12 who have average or above average/gifted intelligence and are learning disabled and/or emotionally disturbed. In addition, she supervises a wide variety of special education services, coordinates staff development for the Special Services Center, and coordinates mainstream efforts with public school administrators and staff. Lois received her doctorate in gifted, special education, and educational administration from Teachers College at Columbia University. Lois is the current president and one of the founders of AEGUS. She is a member of NAGC, AGATE, CEC, and ASCD.
Margie is a learning consultant in Pennsylvania who has been working with children with reading problems for over 30 years. She has taken neuroscience courses at the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry and through the Learning and Brain Conference in Cambridge, MA. Margie has recently developed a module on special education for general education student teachers. She is currently developing coursework for Montclair State University on the social-emotional needs of gifted students. Margie received her doctorate in Special Education from Rutgers University in 2007. She is a Board member of AEGUS.
Pam Gilbert recently retired from full time teaching after 30 years. Her experiences include K-8 enrichment, middle school math, and university level teaching at Lamar University, University of Houston-Clear Lake, and the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Dr. GIlbert currently serves as a GT consultant at the state and national level. She and her husband, Mike, a high school choral director, own and operate the Garden Inn Bed and Breakfast in Galveston, Texas.
Deborah has been involved in gifted education and multicultural education for more than 15 years. She began her career by developing an early childhood and elementary program for MacKintosh Academy, a private gifted school in Denver. She founded and directed the Aurora School for the Gifted Child, which provided an elementary gifted multicultural education program for 7 years. At the University of Denver, she was an instructor as well as Multicultural Education Coordinator at Ricks Center, a school for gifted children. As Program Coordinator of Hope Academy for Gifted Children, Debbie developed an identification model and a gifted education program for inner city students. As an adjunct professor at Colorado State University, she taught multicultural education and ethnic studies. She was a consultant in gifted and urban education for Denver Public Schools. Deborah is currently an Associate Professor in Teacher Education at Eastern Michigan University and Director of the Office of Urban Education and Educational Equity. She is a current Board member of AEGUS, former President of the Special Populations Division of NAGC, member of the Unity, Harmony, and Compatibility Task Force of NAGC. She has written and co-authored articles and research papers concerning gifted and multicultural education.
Gail taught in public schools for 10 years, served as a gifted and talented teacher/coordinator, taught special needs and underachieving students using the arts. For the last 15 years she taught and continues to teach for Garrett College, McHenry, MD and Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. She earned her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in Talent Development at the University of Connecticut, where she taught "Movement and Dramatic Expression in Education," directed an Enrichment Saturday School Program, received a Noyes Fellowship, and worked as an Intern for the US Office of Gifted and Talented Education at the Rhode Island Department of Education. She served on the Connecticut Task Force for Gifted and Talented Education, as past Chair for the Arts Division of the NAGC, and as a Javits Grant consultant. Gail is a storyteller, an enrichment consultant and a performing artist for the Maryland State Arts Council Roster. Gail has taught creative dance and storytelling in schools and worked to help special needs student with creative movement, drama, and her “Kinesthetic Curriculum.” She wrote Storytelling: A Triad in the Arts, co-wrote Kinetic Kaleidoscope: Exploring Movement and Energy in Visual Arts, and contributed to Nurturing the Gifts and Talents of Primary Grade Students, to Joining In, and to Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope: Stories for Peace Justice and the Environment. Her articles appeared in Parenting for High Potential and Better Homes and Gardens. Gail is a Board member of AEGUS.
Jann is an associate professor at the University of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana, where she teaches course work in curriculum and instruction, gifted education, assessment and learning, educational research, and methods in social sciences. Additionally she teaches curriculum courses and thinking skills courses online and in the Three Summers Program at the University of Connecticut. Before joining the faculty at the University of Great Falls, she worked as a research assistant for The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT). She has been a classroom teacher, enrichment specialist, and coordinator of a gifted education program in Montana. She is the co-author of, The Multiple Menu Model: A Practical Guide for Developing Differentiated Curriculum, and The Parallel Curriculum: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High-Ability Students. She conducts workshops for teachers in the areas of differentiated instruction, curriculum design and assessment, thinking skills, and program development. She serves on the board of the National Association for Gifted Children and currently serves on the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students (AEGUS).
Terry is currently Assistant Professor of Education at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He served as Co-Director of Project HIGH HOPES, and educational research grant funded under the Jacob K. Javits legislation of 1993-96. He has done extensive work with gifted students with disabilities, modifying the classroom environment for these students as well as developing a challenging Dually Differentiated Curriculum (DDC) to meet their unique needs. Terry was a secondary science teacher and history teacher for 7 years, four of which were spent working with secondary gifted and talented students. Terry’s research interests include science instruction, teaching strategies for gifted students with disabilities, the gifted with emotional or behavioral disorders, paleontology, bow hunting, and herpetology. Every spring, Terry leads a service learning delegation to Tierra Blanca, El Salvador where undergraduate students live and work along side compasinos in villages in need of support. He is a Board member of AEGUS.
Stuart taught in the state of Oregon at the elementary level for 15 years: nine years as a classroom teacher and six years as an enrichment specialist. He lived in Connecticut for three years to work on his doctorate in gifted education and has been at the University of Northern Colorado for seven years. His duties there include teaching classes to undergraduate teacher candidates, supervising them in schools, teaching in the master's program in Gifted and Talented Education and serving as the Education director for the Summer Enrichment Program. He served as Board Member At Large and is currently President-elect for the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented. For the National Association for Gifted Children: Creativity Division, Stuart served as Creativity Night Chair and Division Chair. His professional interests include creativity in the curriculum, underachievement of gifted, talented, creative students, and qualitative research methods. His personal interests include music, reading and gardening.
Daphne is a supervisor for the Colorado Department of Education, Exceptional Students Leadership Unit. She is currently involved in the statewide Response to Intervention initiative. For 15 years, she worked in Cherry Creek School District as a learning disabilities specialist, a gifted and talented specialist, and as a member of the Student Achievement Services Leadership Team. She served as the coordinator for the learning disabilities teachers in the district as well as being the twice-exceptional specialist K-12 through the gifted and talented office. Daphne is a member of the Council for Exceptional Children, the Colorado Academy of Educators for the Gifted, Talented and Creative, and is currently on the Board of AEGUS.
Mary is an Associate Professor of Special Education and Coordinator of Gifted Programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she teaches courses in gifted education and school psychology. Her interests include the use of technology in classrooms, issues related to the twice-exceptional, and the social/emotional needs of gifted children.
Rich received his Masters degree from Trinity College. He is an educational consultant, advocate and author. His career in education began as an elementary classroom teacher, and for three decades Rich worked in a variety of roles in the Montgomery County Public Schools, MD. In recent years, he coordinated MCPS' nationally recognized programs for students who are both gifted and learning disabled. He has also coordinated mainstreaming programs for emotionally disturbed students. Rich currently runs an educational consulting group, Weinfeld Education Group, providing extensive advocacy work, training for parents and school staff, and consultation with schools and school systems. Rich has authored three books, all available from Prufrock Press. "Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential," "Helping Boys Succeed in School," and "School Success for Kids with Asperger's Syndrome." Rich teaches a course at Johns Hopkins entitled "The GT/LD Student." For more information please visit his website at www.richweinfeld.com
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