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S2.6.6 Asynchrony Revealed: The Columbus Group Story

The concept of asynchronous development of the gifted is intuitively grasped by parents, teachers, and counselors deeply involved in the lives of gifted children. Yet, this notion has only been part of the gifted lexicon for the last 25 years. This presentation describes how asynchrony became woven into the fabric of the psychology and education of the gifted and the resulting positive impact of understanding and recognizing asynchronous development at home, school, and within the community. The story of The Columbus Group definition demonstrates what can be accomplished when it does not matter who gets the credit.

Author(s):

Michele Kane
m-kane1@neiu.edu
Northeastern Illinois University
United States

   

Michele Kane, Ed.D., is a professor, coordinator of the Master of Arts in Gifted Education program at Northeastern Illinois University, and the SENG 2018 Educator of the Year. She has been an advocate for the gifted for more than 25 years and presents at state, national, and international conferences. Michele is a contributing author to Off the Charts, Giftedness and Creativity, and Living with Intensity. Her most recent book, Planting Seeds of Mindfulness, co-authored with Dorothy Sisk, was released in 2018. Inspired by her six gifted children, Michele’s interest remains on the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of gifted children.

Barbara Mitchell Hutton
bhutton@novaschool.org
NOVA Middle School
United States

   

Barbara Mitchell Hutton is Head of School at NOVA Middle School, an independent school serving highly capable and gifted learners in Olympia, Washington. NOVA’s vision is to inspire lifelong learning for a more compassionate and engaged world. Inspired by her now adult daughter, Barbara has spent thirty years advocating for the educational, social and emotional needs of gifted children and their families. A frequent speaker at local, state, national and international conferences about asynchrony and Developmental Differentiation, she authored the chapter in Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child about schools and responding to asynchrony in the classroom.

Ellen D. Fiedler
ellenfiedler@comcast.net
Northeastern Illinois University/Wings for Education, Inc.
United States

   

Dr. Ellen D. Fiedler, Professor Emerita of Gifted Education from Chicago’s Northeastern Illinois University, is the author of Bright Adults: Uniqueness and Belonging Across the Lifespan and has published chapters on gifted adults in Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child and in Living with Intensity as well as many articles in professional journals. Her Ph.D. is in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a Gifted Program Coordinator and a State Consultant for Gifted and has regularly presented at state, national, and international conferences and keynoted the first international symposium on adult giftedness.

Linda Kreger Silverman
giftedness101@gmail.com
Gifted Development Center/ISAD
United States

   

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist. She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development and Gifted Development Center. For 9 years, she was a faculty member at University of Denver. In the last 40 years, she has studied over 6,500 children who have been assessed at GDC. She has studied the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, Advanced Development: A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults, and Giftedness 101 (translated into Swedish and Korean).

Shelagh A. Gallagher
sagallag1@gmail.com
Engaged Education
United States

   

Dr. Shelagh A. Gallagher is an international consultant in gifted education. Her research and writing span diverse topics including curriculum efficacy, personality attributes and giftedness, and developmental and academic needs of gifted adolescents. Shelagh has received the Distinguished Service Award and the James J. Gallagher Award for Advocacy (NC Association for Gifted/Talented), the Provost’s Teaching Excellence award (UNC Charlotte), and the Article of the Year Award (NAGC). She is the 2016-1017 recipient of the “Person of SIGnificance” award (National Society for Gifted Students). Every summer Dr. Gallagher makes time to work with gifted adolescents at camp Yunasa.

 


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