Karen B. Rogers, Ph.D. is Professor of Gifted Studies in the Special Education & Gifted Education Department in the College of Applied Professional Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she has been employed since 1984. She is a Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong in Australia. She is past president of CEC-TAG, past chair of the AERA SIG, Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, and has been on the Board of Directors of NAGC. She is author of five books, including Reforming Gifted Education. She is Associate Editor of the Journal for Advanced Academics, and is on the editorial review panels for Roeper Review, Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal for Education of the Gifted, and the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education. She has expertise in research-based gifted practices via research syntheses of the research in gifted education and has interests in arts education, cognitive processing, parenting, creativity, gifted program development and evaluation, and twice exceptional learners, for which she currently holds a Javits research grant. She is the mother of three highly gifted children and the grandmother to nine gifted grandsons.
Speaker Topics:
- “Best Practices” in gifted education that are research-based
- Acceleration practices and research
- Grouping practices and research
- Curriculum development
- Gifted program planning and development
- Program/curriculum evaluation
- Intelligence and achievement assessments
- Cognitive processing
- Creativity
- Arts education
- Parenting issues
- Twice exceptional learners
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