The Frontier of Gifted Education: An Interview With E. Jean Gubbins

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● The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (1990–2013), focusing on the curricular strategies and practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics high schools; reading and mathematics in elementary schools; professional learning; and gifted education pedagogy for all students. (https://nrcgt.uconn.edu) ● National Center for Research on Gifted Education (2024–2021), implementing multiyear studies about exemplary practices in identification practices for gifted and talented students as well as identification practices for gifted and talented English learners. (https://ncrge.uconn.edu/significance-of-theresearch/) ● National Center for Research on Gifted Education (2020–2025), emphasizing the efficiency and effectiveness of identification systems and professional learning to promote single-subject and wholegrade acceleration in reading and mathematics for grades 2 to 3 students. (https://ncrge.uconn.edu) ● Thinking Like Mathematicians Challenging All Grade 3 Students (2017–2022), which is a professional learning and curriculum development project currently working with teachers as they develop predifferentiated, enriched, and tiered fractions lessons. (https://thinkinglikemathematicians.uconn.edu/) ● Project BUMP UP (Building Up Mathematics Proficiency Using Push-in, 2019–2024), which will involve grades 4 to 5 students who will receive multiple opportunities to develop, extend, and accelerate their math abilities. (https://projectbumpup.educa tion.uconn.edu/) These research opportunities enhanced university teaching and service responsibilities because there were multiple ways to transfer what was being learned from various research studies to practice.