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Carol V. Horn (she/her/hers)

educational consultant
independent consultant, Virginia

Carol V. Horn is a graduate of Emmanuel College in Boston, has a Master of Education in Educational Psychology with an emphasis on Gifted from the University of Virginia, and a doctorate in Teacher Preparation and Special Education from The George Washington University. She is the 2002 recipient of the Hollingsworth Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) for outstanding research in the field of gifted education and in 2010 she received the first Outstanding Leader Award from the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. In 2015 she was recognized as a Coordinator of the Year by the National Association for Gifted Children. Dr. Horn has worked extensively to develop and implement the Young Scholars model, a comprehensive approach to finding and nurturing gifted potential in young learners from underrepresented populations. Young Scholars was featured as one of eight successful programs that support low-income high-ability students in the 2012 NAGC Unlocking Emergent Talent report. In 2017 she retired from Fairfax County Public schools and is currently an independent consultant for Young Scholars in Action. In 2021, she and her colleagues published a book titled Young Scholars Model: A Comprehensive Approach for Developing Talent and Persuing Equity in Gifted Education in order to support other districts engaged in this important work.

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