Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ph.D. is the Administrator, Acceleration Institute and Research at the University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center. She founded and directed the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students (C-MITES) at Carnegie Mellon University for 22 years. Together with Dr. Susan Assouline, she wrote Developing Math Talent:  A Comprehensive Guide to Math Education for Gifted Students in Elementary and Middle School (2nd ed.).  She is also a co-author of the Iowa Acceleration Scale with Susan Assouline, Nicholas Colangelo, Jonathan Lipscomb, and Leslie Forstadt; and co-editor of  A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America’s Brightest Students, with Susan Assouline, Nicholas Colangelo, and Joyce VanTassel-Baska.  Her most recent publication is Developing Academic Acceleration Policies: Whole Grade, Early Entrance, and Single Subject, co-authored with Wendy A. Behrens and Susan G. Assouline. Her professional interests include identifying exceptionally mathematically talented students and devising appropriately challenging opportunities for them as well as assisting educators in understanding the Talent Search Model and how it can be utilized in schools.

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