Wendy Leader, Ph. D.

Instructor
Gifted & Talented Endorsement Program
College of Education

1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Wsleader64@gmail.com

• Education
• Teaching
• Scholarship
• Service

Dr. Wendy Leader has devoted her education and career to the education of the gifted, and is currently the Gifted & Talented Coordinator for Mesa County District 51 in Grand Junction. She has presented at numerous conferences and has served on many boards and committees relating to the gifted.

Her areas of expertise include creativity; thinking skills and questioning strategies; K-8 mathematics; curriculum and instruction; design, concept-based differentiation; underserved populations; identification and psychology of giftedness; conceptual foundations of gifted education; and teacher education and professional development.

She holds a Colorado Teacher's License and is endoresed as a Gifted Education Specialist in elementary education.

Education

Ph.D., Special Education - Education of the Gifted
University of Arizona

M.A., Special Education - Teaching the Gifted
University of Northern Colorado

Teaching

CURR 5211 Curriculum Models & Programming

CURR 5206 Creativity

Scholarship

Selected Publications

• Comprehensive Math Program:  A 12-Step Plan for Change. In S. G. Assouline & A. Lupkowski-Shoplik, Developing Mathematical Talent (3rd ed.), to be publ. Nov., 2010.
• Projects with Passion. Understanding Our Gifted, 22(2),pp. 21-23, 2010.
• GATEway Project. Understanding Our Gifted, 15(3), pp. 16-17, 2003.
• Investigating the Acquisition of Pedagogical Knowledge: Interviews with a Beginning Teacher of the Gifted. Roeper Review, 23, pp. 219-226, 2001.

Service

Community

• Coordinator, Gifted and Talented Program, Mesa County District 51
• Instructor, CDE Take Five modules in Gifted Education
• Featured presenter, South Dakota 8th Annual Institute for Teachers of Gifted Youth
• District-wide Gifted and Talented Resource Consultant
• Gifted and Talented Magnet Program Teacher
• Gifted and Talented Pull-out Program Teacher
• Coordinator of Javits grant project
  2000-2003

State

• Colorado Association for the Gifted and Talented
  • Member
    1994 - present
  • Board Member
    1996 - 97
• Board of Governors, Colorado Academy of Educators of the Gifted, Talented, and Creative
  1997

Professional Affiliations

• National Association for Gifted Children
  • Chair of Creativity Network
    2000 - 2002 and 2010 - present
  • Research and Evaluation Network
  • Education Committee
    2008 - present
  • Moderator, Virtual Convention
    2009