The SAGE Handbook of Gifted and Talented Education

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Dorothy Sisk holds an endowed chair in education of gifted students at Lamar University in Beaumont Texas. Throughout her career she has been intensely involved with the education of gifted and talented children. Sisk is an international consultant focusing on leadership communication and creativity development. She was a professor at the University of South Florida coordinating programs for training teachers of the gifted and former director of the US Office of Gifted and Talented in Washington DC. She currently directs the C.W. Conn and Doroth Ann Conn Gifted Child Center at Lamar University and teaches courses in gifted education. She received the Distinguished Leader Award from the Creative Education Foundation (CEF) in 1989 the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) in 1983 and 1994 the Creative Lifetime Award from CEF in 1994 and was selected for the Hall of Fame Award of CEF in 2005. Sisk served as one of the founders and the first president of the American Creativity Association and president of The Association for the Gifted (TAG) the Florida Association for the Gifted and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children where she also was the executive administrator and the editor of Gifted International from 1980 to 1990. She has conducted training sessions throughout the U.S. and internationally. Sisk is the author of Creative Teaching of the Gifted; coauthor with Doris Shallcross of Leadership: Making Things Happen The Growing Person and Intuition: An Inner Way of Knowing; coauthor with E. Paul Torrance of Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom and Spiritual Intelligence: Higher Level Consciousness; and coauthor with Susan Israel and Cathy Block of Collaborative Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student. In addition she has contributed numerous articles and chapters in books on gifted education creativity and leadership development. John Senior is a freelance education consultant and writer. For over three decades John has worked with and for gifted and talented children. He is active in the UK and internationally and has held most posts in education including recently that of school principal in the UAE (Arabic curriculum). His work as an academic leader adviser consultant is concerned with exploring creativity and he has written extensively to provide enrichment activities that stimulate independent thinking. Johns research interests focus on practical approaches to raising and managing individual motivation and the legacy implications of rapid change in education provision in developing countries.