Dr. Karen Rogers is Professor of Gifted Studies at The University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She began teaching gifted children in 1967 and has been involved with them ever since, receiving two Master’s degrees in gifted education and a doctorate in Gifted Curriculum and Instructional Systems. Dr. Rogers spent three years as Director of Research for GERRIC at the University of New South Wales. She has served on the Board of Directors for NAGC and is a Past President of The Council for Exceptional Children. Dr. Rogers is on the editorial boards of most of the major journals in the field, including Journal for Advanced Academics, Roeper Review, Gifted Child Quarterly, and Gifted and Talented International. She has written more than 100 journal articles, a similar number of magazine articles, three books (include Re-Forming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child), and 20 book chapters. She also wrote and co-produced a ten-part television series called One Step Ahead. In addition, she has evaluated numerous schools, gifted programs, gifted curricula, and gifted research projects.
Join us on Friday, April 23, 2010, to hear Dr. Rogers's keynote address, An Update on the Latest Research in Gifted Education. You can also hear two additional breakout sessions led by Dr. Rogers on that day: Do Australians Do It Better? An Outsider's Perspective of Education "Down Under" and Teachers Who Make a Difference in Gifted Children's Lives. Then, join an interactive panel of Dr. Rogers along with Dr. Ann Lupkowski Shoplik of C-MITES and Dr. Victoria Damiani of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. These three leaders in the field of gifted education will be on hand to answer your questions.
Take a "sneak peek" at Dr. Rogers's session Teachers Who Make a Difference in Gifted Children's Lives by accessing a PowerPoint of that presentation at www.scgifted.org/Keynote.ppt. (Note: After clicking this link, you may need to manually change the URL so that the "K" in keynote is capitalized in order to access this presentation.)
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