Kathi Kearney

Gifted Education Specialist

Kathi Kearney is a Gifted Education Specialist in Cumberland, Maine, where she teaches gifted students in grades K-8. She taught online courses in gifted education for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; published numerous articles on giftedness; was a founding member of The Columbus Group, which developed the definition of giftedness as asynchronous development; served as network chair for the Conceptual Foundations Network of NAGC; and is currently a member of NAGC's Assessment of Giftedness Special Interest Group. Areas of specialization include highly and profoundly gifted students; rurally isolated gifted students; program development; testing and assessment; and social studies education for the gifted.