Select Publications

Twice-Exceptional Learners
(2025)
This School Mental Health Pratice Brief helps schools with strategies for identification and intervention of twice-exceptional students, and discusses implications for practice.
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2e Tip Sheets
(2025)
A series of informational, one-page, tip sheets for educators, with simple solutions to common challenges twice-exceptional students might experience in the classroom.
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NAGC Position Statement: Acceleration
(2025)
A recently updated position paper offering a short-form, practical guide to research-based best practices for implementing academic acceleration.
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Developing Academic Acceleration Policies
(2018)
This guide assists educators at the state, district, or school level in implementing acceleration practices and promotes awareness and adoption of sound accelerative practices.
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A Nation Empowered
(2015)
A Nation Empowered informs educators, parents, and policy makers of current research on acceleration and how to use the findings to make decisions for their brightest students.
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Meet Our Authors

Susan Assouline
Susan Assouline

Director Emerita
Belin-Blank Center

Nick Colangelo
Nick Colangelo

Director Emertius
Belin-Blank Center

Megan Foley-Nicpon
Megan Foley-Nicpon

Director
Belin-Blank Center

Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik
Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik

Administrator
Research & Acceleration

Randy Lange
Randy Lange

Associate Director
Professional Learning

Katie Schabilion
Katie Schabilion

Supervisor
Psychological Services

Jolene Teske
Jolene Teske

Associate Director
Professional Learning

Past Publications

Packet of Information for Professionals - 2nd Edition (PIP-2)
(2008)
Designed for professionals who work with gifted and talented students with an ASD, ADHD, or SLD diagnosis, PIP-2 offers practical recommendations for accomodations.
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A Nation Deceived
(2004)
A Nation Deceived highlights disparities between the research on acceleration and the educational beliefs and practices that often run contrary to the research.
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