Jeanne H. Purcell   

Jeanne H. Purcell is the consultant to the Connecticut State Depart­ment of Education for gifted and talented education. She is also director of UConn Mentor Connection, a nationally recognized summer mentorship program for talented teenagers that is part of the NEAG Center for Talent Development at the University of Con­necticut. Prior to her work at the State Department of Connecticut, she was an administrator for Rocky Hill Public Schools (CT); a pro­gram specialist with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, where she worked collaboratively with other researchers on national issues related to high-achieving young people; an instructor of Teaching the Talented, a graduate-level program in gifted education; and a staff developer to school districts across the country and Canada. She has been an En­glish teacher, community service coordinator, and teacher of the gifted, K-12, for 18 years in Connecticut school districts and has published many articles that have appeared in Educational Leadership, Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Educa­tional and Psychological Measurement, National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Bulletin, Our Children: The National PTA Magazine, Parenting for High Potential, and Journal for the Education of the Gifted. She is active in the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and serves on the Awards Committee and the Curriculum Committee of NAGC, for which she is the co-chair for the annual Curriculum Awards Competition.

Affiliations:

-Connecticut State Department of Education

BOOKS: 7 Products
 
  Title Lead Author/Editor Pub Date
 
 Price
Parallel Curriculum Units for Social Studies, Grades 6-12
Jeanne H. Purcell 10-29-2009 $35.95
The Parallel Curriculum (Multimedia Kit), Second Edition
A Design to Develop Learner Potential and Challenge Advanced Learners 		Carol Ann Tomlinson 09-30-2009 $299.95
Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6-12
Jeanne H. Purcell 08-25-2009 $35.95
The Parallel Curriculum, Second Edition This book is available for review to qualified faculty.
A Design to Develop Learner Potential and Challenge Advanced Learners 		Carol Ann Tomlinson 10-22-2008 $40.95
Designing Services and Programs for High-Ability Learners This book is available for review to qualified faculty.
A Guidebook for Gifted Education 		Jeanne H. Purcell 11-11-2005 $40.95
The Parallel Curriculum in the Classroom, Book 2 This book is available for review to qualified faculty.
Units for Application Across the Content Areas, K-12 		Carol Ann Tomlinson 09-08-2005 $35.95
The Parallel Curriculum in the Classroom, Book 1 This book is available for review to qualified faculty.
Essays for Application Across the Content Areas, K-12 		Carol Ann Tomlinson 08-30-2005 $35.95

 

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