Rebecca L. Mann, Ph.D. 2005 University of Connecticut
Associate Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute
Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Studies
 
Becky’s interest in students with high intellectual ability and concomitant learning disabilities led her to earn a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with specializations in Gifted and Talented Education and Special Education.  As a research associate with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, she worked with a team on a national study designed to increase achievement in underachieving high-ability students.  Prior to her doctoral studies she was a gifted and talented coordinator and resource teacher and an elementary classroom teacher in Colorado and New Hampshire, where she was named the 2001 Educator of the Year of the Gifted.  Becky’s published works reflect her interest in students with high spatial ability.