Paula Olszewski-Kubilius

multiple programs for diverse groups of gifted learners from preschool through high school. Dr. Olszewski-Kubilius speaks and writes extensively on conceptual models of giftedness and talent development, issues in talent development across the lifespan, best practices regarding the identification and programming for under-represented gifted students and outside-of-school, and accelerative models of gifted education. She has published over 140 articles and book chapters. Her recent theoretical work includes a co-edited book with Rena Subotnik and Frank Worrell, The Handbook of High Performance: Developing Potential In To Domain-Specific Talent, published by the American Psychological Association, which examines talent development across diverse fields of academics, the arts and sport. She has served as editor of Gifted Child Quarterly, co-editor of the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education and on the editorial review boards of Gifted and Talented International, The Roeper Review, and Gifted Child Today. She served as president of the National Association for Gifted Children (2011-2013) and received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009; and with colleagues, he Gifted Child Quarterly Paper of the Year Award in 2011, 2018 and 2020; the Gifted Child Quarterly Paper of the Decade in 2020. She also received the Palmarium Award for vision and leadership in gifted education in 2022 from the University of Denver.  She is a fellow in the American Psychological Association.