Executive Director, is co-founder
of Rocky Mountain School and serves as President of the
Board of Directors. For over thirty years, she has been
involved in non-profit organizations. Barbara holds an
undergraduate degree in Sociology and Social Work from
the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University
of Northern Colorado.
She has presented at the National Association for Gifted
Children (NAGC) annual conferences in Tampa, Indianapolis,
Cincinnati, Salt Lake City and Denver as well as at the Hollingworth
Center for the Highly Gifted conference in Boston. Other
national presentations include the SENG (Supporting the Social
and Emotional Needs of the Gifted) in St. Paul and the New
England Conference for Gifted and Talented Educators in Massachusetts. She
has made local presentations at the Colorado Association
for the Gifted and Talented Annual Conference, the Beyond
Giftedness conference and the Intensitivities 25th
Anniversary Conference of the Gifted Development Center.
She is co-chair of the Global Awareness Division of NAGC
and active in the Special Schools and Program Division. In
2005, Barbara was an education delegate to the People’s
Republic of China where she presented a session on asynchronous
development at the Beijing Gifted Education Institute. Barbara
has written articles about gifted children, parenting and
education models for gifted schools that have appeared in
national journals and local newspapers.
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