Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Mahony Center for Gifted Education
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas
Dr. Ann Robinson, Distinguished Professor, is the Founding Director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. She is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children and a former editor of the Gifted Child Quarterly. Ann has been honored by NAGC as Early Scholar, Early Leader, Distinguished Scholar and for Distinguished Service and by Purdue University with the Alumni Award of Distinction for the College of Education. She has received over $25 million dollars in external funding to support services for children and teachers and for research projects on best practices in gifted education. Her most recent project funded through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Program is STEM+C2--an early grades school-based intervention focused on engineering, computer science, and creativity. She is a passionate reader of biographies and developed the Blueprints for Biography series for teachers who implement biography in their classrooms. Ann is currently the Associate Editor of Gifted and Talented International, the official journal of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. She travels widely in North America, Europe and Australasia to advocate for opportunities for children, teachers, and schools.
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Friday, November 18, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Saturday, November 19, 2022
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM
Saturday, November 19, 2022
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM