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Speakers Directory

WCATY compiled this directory of Wisconsin's gifted and talented education specialists for the purpose of providing parents and educators access to Wisconsin's best resources in the area of gifted and talented education.

Each person listed here is willing to be contacted about speaking engagements, presentations or in-service opportunities. Complete information about each speaker, including biographical information, travel radius and fees can be found here.

If you are interested in contracting with one of these specialists, please use the contact information provided. Specific arrangements and fee schedules should be discussed with individual presenters.

We hope you find this directory helpful, and if you have suggestions for additional speakers for future directories, please contact WCATY.

Please click on a speaker's name to read more information.

Martha Barlow
Martha Barlow's topics include TAG Programming: Differentiation, Acceleration, Developmental Guidance, Identification; Future Problem Solving; Math 24 Tournaments.

Robin Carelli
Robin Carelli's topics include Identification and Programming K-12; Curriculum Differentiation K-12; Reaching Students of Mixed Ability within the Regular Classroom.

Dr. Richard M. Cash
Dr. Richard M. Cash's topics include Who are the Gifted? Social/Emotional Needs, Learning Styles, Underrepresented Populations, Early ID, Teaching with Brain in Mind, Lesson Planning, Differentiation, Gifted Strategies for ALL learners, Creative and Critical Thinking.

Michael Cornale
Michael Cornale's topics include Underachievement in high potential, matching parenting and teaching strategies with the learning styles and temperament of the gifted, shaping the identity and performance of the gifted child.

Jacquelyn Drummer
Jacquelyn Drummer, M.S., is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator and Differentiation Specialist for the School District of South Milwaukee, WI. She has served on the WI Association for Talented and Gifted Board for five years, and assumed the Presidency in October of 2007. 

Susan Haydock, Ph.D.
Susan Haydock, Ph.D.'s topics include Building a guidance program for gifted, Gifted Boys-Gifted Girls, Parenting skills for gifted, Distance learning, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic for GT, Teaching Gifted Students.

Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson's topics include Social-Emotional development; Curriculum Options - General; Support/Discussion Groups for Gifted Adolescent Girls; Assessment of Gifted Students.

Mary Klein
Mary Klein's topics include Identification/Program Options; Classroom Differentiation; Learning Styles.

Sue Knippel
Sue Knippel's topics include Program Development; Home-School Communication; Social-Emotional Needs Relative to Home and School Programming; School Program Implementation and Administration; Differentiation, Acceleration and Alternatives for Gifted Students.

Dr. Barbara Kopack-Hill
Dr. Barbara Kopack-Hill's topics include Parenting Gifted Children, Differentiated Instruction, Staff Development, Understanding by Design, Working with the School Organization.

Shirley Paulson
Shirley Paulson's topics include Differentiation - Strategies & Necessity; How Parents can Advocate for their Children & Enrich the School Curriculum;Social-Emotional Needs; AP Courses, How to ''grow'' a program.

Michael M Piechowski, Ph.D.
Michael M Piechowski, Ph.D.'s topics include Emotional Development, Dabrowski's Theory, Emotional & Spiritual Giftedness, Developmental Potential & Growth of the Self, Techniques of Empowering the Child.

Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D
Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D's topics include Pressures of gifted children & why they underachieve; Creative Underachievement; Parenting so children learn; Why bright kids get poor grades, Gender Issues, See Jane Win/How Jane Won/See Jane Win for Girls; Rescuing Emotional Lives of Overweight Children

Susan Savolainen
Susan Savolainen's topics include Gifted Education - Identification and Programming; Providing the Needs of G/T Middle School Students; Underachievement.

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