Westmount Charter School hosted the first "Pillars of Gifted Education" conference in October 2010. Many thanks to all participants and presenters who gathereed around the topic, "affective curriculum".

Here is a list of presenters, with web links where available.

Dr Tracy Cross, College of William and Mary
http://cfge.wm.edu/

Dr Richard Olenchak, University of Houston (Urban-Talent Research Institute)
http://www.coe.uh.edu/directory/employee-profile/index.php?id=45
http://www.coe.uh.edu/about/institutes-centers/index.php

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Dr Sal Mendaglio, University of Calgary (Graduate Programs in Education)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/gpe/home

Ted Zarowny, New Horizons Charter School
http://www.newhorizons.ab.ca/SubPages/SchoolInitiatives/tabid/93/Default.aspx

Grace Backlund and Susan Picard, Grande Prairie Public School Division (Gifted)
http://www.gppsd.ab.ca/programs/gifted/pages/default.aspx

Dr Charlene Barva, Patricia Paterson and Lynne Ursenbach, Calgary Board of Education (GATE)
http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/spec_ed/se-gifted.asp
http://www.gatecalgary.ca/for-parents-schools.aspx

Mary Jo Pow, Canadian Centre for the Gifted
http://www.giftedcentre.ca/

Brenda Diteljan, Calgary Catholic School Division (Gifted)
http://www.cssd.ab.ca/default.asp?MARK_SEARCH=YES&SEARCH_ID=s1&V_ITEM_ID=520

Adegoke Emmanuel Olukorede, Ajayi Crowther University (Career Placement-Counselling)
http://www.acu.edu.ng/Counselling.asp

Krystal Abrahamowicz, Chris Byron, Hal Curties, Seamus Doyle, Bill Keen, Tanya Keto, Paul Monaghan, Westmount Charter School
http://www.westmountcharter.com/giftedness/westmount_gifted.html

Lorraine Hodgkinson, KWA Partners
http://www.kwapartners.com/en/bios.php?bio=175