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Oct. 17, 2006

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Bean receives statewide award for gifted education

 

COLUMBUS, Miss. - Dr. Suzanne Bean, director of the Roger F. Wicker Center for Creative Learning at Mississippi University for Women, recently received the Frances A. Karnes Award of Excellence in Gifted Education.

            The award is given by the Mississippi Association for Gifted Children and was presented to Bean for her significant contributions toward the improvement and advancement of gifted education in Mississippi.

            Bean has master and doctoral degrees in special education with an emphasis in gifted education. In 1991, she developed the master’s program in gifted studies at MUW.

            In addition to training hundreds of teachers in gifted studies across the state, Bean co-authored the leading textbook on gifted education in the nation. She has also co-authored six additional books for gifted students and their parents.

            On the MUW campus, she developed the Summer Discovery program, an enrichment program for gifted elementary age students and served as the director of the Mississippi Governor’s School for six years.