Distinguished Professor and Founding Director
Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Dr. Ann Robinson, Distinguished Professor, is Founding Director of the Mahony Center for Gifted Education, University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Past president of the National Association for Gifted Children and former editor of the Gifted Child Quarterly, Ann was honored by NAGC as Early Scholar, Early Leader, Distinguished Scholar, Distinguished Service, and with the Ann Fabe Isaacs Founder's Award and by Purdue University with the Alumni Award of Distinction for the College of Education. She received over $25 million dollars in external funding to support services for children and teachers and for research on best practices in gifted education. Her most recent project funded through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Program is STEM+C2--an elementary school-based intervention focused on engineering, computer science, and creativity.
Ann is a passionate reader of biographies and developed the Blueprints for Biography series for teachers to implement biography in classrooms. A recent innovation for the Blueprints series is the development, content validation, and field testing of the Biography Information and Opinion Survey (BIOS), a classroom-friendly assessment, teachers can use to document students' understanding and enjoyment of biography.
She travels widely in North America, Europe and Australasia to advocate for children, teachers, and schools.
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Poster 62: The Power of STEM Role Models: Inspiring Identity and Belonging in Gifted Learners
Thursday, November 13, 2025
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM ET