Please join us via Zoom on Wednesday, April 19th from Noon - 1 PM for our monthly meeting.

High-ability and gifted students need support to develop their unique academic talents. The development of talent is maximized when deliberate steps are taken to nurture it. Join Dr. Sarah DeLisle Fecht from Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth as she discusses important cognitive and non-cognitive factors that contribute to the talent development of gifted and high ability students, including the role extra-curricular accelerated opportunities play in a student's trajectory.  

Sarah DeLisle Fecht, Ed.D. is the executive director of Vanderbilt Programs for Talented Youth (PTY). Sarah presents at national and state conferences and has previously served as an adjunct professor for Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education. Prior to joining PTY in 2012, Sarah taught elementary school students. She holds an undergraduate degree in education from Vanderbilt University, with a double-major in early childhood education and child studies. Her master’s degree is in learning and instruction from Vanderbilt and she holds a doctorate in learning organizations and strategic change from Lipscomb University. Sarah enjoys working with parents and educators to support meeting advanced students’ needs.

Find supplemental materials here:
Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education video
Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science
The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth