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Anna L. Armitage, EdD (she/her/hers)

Gifted & Talented Coordinator Denver East High School
Denver Public Schools, Colorado

Anna Armitage is a Florida native who personally benefitted from the state's system of equitable gifted identification using a matrix. She continued her connection to gifted education as a gifted case manager in the St. John's County School District before moving to Colorado. Anna has been a middle school GT teacher and now is the sole full-time GT Coordinator in the Denver Public Schools district at East High School. Through this work, Anna has taught passion project courses, led social emotional groups, and completed accountability measures to ensure high quality programming reaches all gifted students. Most recently, Anna has worked on expanding the assessments accepted for gifted identification in Colorado including the use of College Board assessments such as AP, CLEP, and the Accuplacer.

In addition to Anna's practical work in secondary gifted education, she earned her Doctorate of Education from the University of Denver in 2022 where she studied curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on gifted and talented education. Through this process, Anna completed a major research project on the founder of the NAGC, Ann Fabe Isaacs. Utilizing primary sources housed in two libraries in Isaacs' hometown of Cincinatti and interviews with Isaacs' surviving children, Anna crafted a portrait to illustrate the life and contributions of Isaacs. This portrait sheds light on the historical grounding of contemporary gifted education programs in the U.S. and responds to the question of the relationship between school integration and the establishment of widespread contemporary gifted education programs. The close study of Isaacs hopes to inspire other researchers to explore the historical underpinnings of gifted education in the U.S. to prevent the weaponization of the history of gifted education against advocates for equitable gifted and talented programming.

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