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Vicki Phelps (she/her/hers)

Executive Director/Head of School
Quest Academy, Illinois

Dr. Vicki Phelps is the Executive Director/Head of School for Quest Academy, a school for gifted learners in Palatine, IL. She has been involved in gifted education for over 25 years, including teaching and leading gifted services at both the elementary and secondary levels and serving as an assistant professor of education. She has collaboratively developed and opened a gifted magnet school and enjoys providing professional learning to those seeking to improve equitable gifted practices. Dr. Phelps regularly presents at state, national, and international gifted conferences and is the recipient of the 2021 NAGC Book of the Year Award - Practitioner Category (with Emily Mofield) for Collaboration, Coteaching, and Coaching in Gifted Education. In addition to her published research on gifted motivation and various other articles, her work is also included in The New Teacher’s Guide to Overcoming Common Challenges. She is the author of Strength-Based Goal Setting in Gifted Education (with Karah Lewis), Successful Online Learning with Gifted Students, and Coaching in Gifted Education (with Emily Mofield). She is also excited about her new project with Routledge: The Power of Purpose in Gifted Education: An Instructional Decision-Making Framework for Student-Centered Learning. Dr. Phelps is Chair-Elect for NAGC’s Special Schools and serves as a reviewer for peer-reviewed articles, books, and proposals.

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