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Gillian I. Eriksson

Gifted Program Coordinator and Instructor
Learning Sciences and Educational Research, University of Central Florida, Florida

Gillian Eriksson, Ph.D. is the Coordinator of the Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction specialization in Gifted Program, the M.ED. In Elementary Gifted and the Gifted Education Certificate Program, the Lead Instructor in Gifted Education, and also teaches Educational Psychology, Curriculum, Global and Comparative Education at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Eriksson has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology focused on Curriculum, Research and Evaluation, and Gifted (University of Connecticut). She has an international reputation as a specialist in underserved gifted and talented students; has served as the USA elected delegate to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children for 3 terms (2007-2013), and has presented at 15 World Gifted conferences and 14 times at NAGC annual conventions. She is the UCF PI for Project GLIMPSE (USDOE Javits Grant 2022-2027); was the UCF PI for Project ELEVATE (Javits Grant, 2015-2021) and served as the Project Coordinator of Project Step-Up at Lamar University, Texas (Javits Grant 1993-1994). She was the Co-Pi on the Working on Gifted Issues (WOGI) Grant for the Florida Department of Education (2002-2003) and rewrote the Teaching Special Populations of Gifted Training Manual used by school districts (2016). She coordinated the UCF Semester Teacher Education Abroad Program and study and internship abroad programs to The Netherlands, England, South Africa, New Zealand. She served on the Morgridge International Reading Center Council; received awards for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2018), the UCF Women of Excellence for Global Achievement (2016); Teaching Excellence; Internationalization; Minority Mentorship and a Fulbright scholarship. She received the 2015 Board of Educational Affairs Golden Psi Award of Excellence (APA) for developing the Gifted Curriculum at a charter school for gifted. she is widely published and on the Advisory Board for Gifted Education International. She was on the NAGC Visioning Committee, and Convention Committees 21/22/23.

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