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Sneha Shah-Coltrane

Director, Advanced Learning and Gifted Education
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina

Sneha Shah-Coltrane is currently the Director of the Office of Advanced Learning and Gifted Education at the NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI). She works with public school district and charter school leaders and teachers, policy-makers, families, IHEs, and other advocates of advanced learning opportunities and gifted education to ensure that the advanced learning needs of students are effectively met in the state of North Carolina.

Mrs. Shah-Coltrane has direct responsibility for overseeing the state implementation of Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted programs, Career and College Promise, NC’s dual enrollment program including Cooperative Innovative High Schools/Early Colleges, and NC Governor’s School. She also leads NCDPI’s efforts for AP/IB/Honors programming, Credit by Demonstrated Mastery, and other advanced learning programs. Over the last 15 years, she has led the formation of the Office of Advanced Learning and Gifted Education, consolidating all of the areas focused on advanced learning opportunities. As an additional role, she serves as Director of Academic Policy.

Mrs. Shah-Coltrane has served the public education community for over 27 years. Her path has included serving as a classroom teacher, AIG lead specialist, district leader, Associate Director of Project U-STARS~PLUS, a Javits grant with UNC-Chapel Hill, and various positions in several professional organizations, including the Early Childhood Division Chair for NAGC and CEC-TAG Board of Directors. Most recently, she has served as Past-President of the Council of State Directors of Programs for Gifted. In 2020, the NC Association for Gifted and Talented awarded Mrs. Shah-Coltrane the Lifetime Gallagher Service Award for her service to NC. Currently, she serves on Fordham Institute’s National Workgroup for Advanced Education.

Throughout her career, Sneha has worked towards ensuring that schools are cultivating, recognizing, and responding to outstanding potential, especially untapped potential, and advocating for the needs of all advanced learners through mindsets, policies, and practices.

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