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Joyce VanTassel-Baska, EdD (she/her/hers)

Smith Professor of Education Emerita
College of William and Mary, Virginia

Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Education Emerita and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William and Mary in Virginia where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Prior to her work in higher education, Dr. VanTassel-Baska has served as the state director of gifted programs for Illinois, as a regional director of a gifted service center in the Chicago area, as coordinator of gifted programs for the Toledo, Ohio public school system, and as a teacher of gifted high school students in English and Latin. She is past president of CEC-TAG Phi Delta Kappa, and NAGC.

Dr. VanTassel-Baska has published widely including 38 books and over 750 articles, book chapters, and reports. Recent books include: Content-based Curriculum for Gifted Learners co-edited with Catherine Little (2023), Handbook on Assessment: Identification, Learning Progress, and Evaluation, co-edited with Susan Johnsen (2022), Talent Development in Gifted Education (2021) and Curriculum Planning and Instructional Design (2020) co-edited with Ariel Baska. She has also conducted over 75 evaluations of school-based gifted programs and served as the editor of Gifted and Talented International for 7 years.

Dr. VanTassel-Baska has received numerous awards for her work, including five from the NAGC (Isaacs Founders Award, Legacy Award, Distinguished Scholar and Service Awards, and Early Leader), Lifetime Achievement Award from Mensa, CEC-TAG Lifetime Achievement Award, World Council Service Award, and Phi Beta Kappa. She served as principal investigator on 62 grants totaling over $15 million, including 8 from the United States Department of Education. She holds B.A., M.A., M.Ed., and Ed.D. degrees from the University of Toledo, an institution that awarded her its Distinguished Achievement Alumna Award in 2003.

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