Dr. Mary Slade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at James Madison University. She received her B.S. in Elementary Education with an emphasis in secondary English from Longwood College, and her Master’s and Doctorate from the University of Virginia. Dr. Slade has taught in higher education for 20 years and currently serves primarily as an instructor in the area of gifted education. Previously she taught in elementary, middle, and high schools as a fourth-grade, gifted education, and English teacher. She is a member of the Board of Directors of NAGC, and won the Early Leader Award from that organization in 1997. Over the past 15 years Dr. Slade has presented over 200 in-service sessions to educators in pre-K-12 education, and has written more than 175 professional papers, several articles, book chapters, and reports as well as three books. She is also one of the editors of Aiming for Excellence: Annotations to the NAGC PK-12 Gifted Program Standards.
Join us on Thursday, April 22, 2010, for Dr. Slade's full-day session Best Practices for Meeting the Needs of All Gifted Learners.
Visit http://www.softconference.com/nagc/sessionDetail.asp?SID=178291 to hear Dr. Slade's recent webinar entitled Classroom Indicators of Giftedness. The session is free for members of NAGC.
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