Mark Hess

Mark Hess is President of the Colorado Association for Gifted Students and is the Gifted Programs Specialist in a large, urban school district in Colorado Springs. Mark has served on the CAGT board of directors for five years and was previously the president of the Pikes Peak Association for Gifted. He is also a member of the Teaching for High Potential advisory board as well as a committee member of NAGC’s Social-Emotional network. Mark has published nine books for gifted specialists including I Used to Be Gifted, his 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Gifted Social-Emotional Curriculums and the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade Hands-on Literacy series. As Portable Gifted and Talented, Mark has shared over 41,000 free resources for teachers of gifted students. A lifelong K-12 Public School educator, Mark began working specifically with gifted learners in 1999 and began his teaching career in 1988.