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Dr. Beverly D. Shaklee is Director of the Center for International Education and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction. The Center for International Education (CIE) focuses on research and development of K12-university international education. CIE supports projects that explore the nature of international education, teacher education and provides professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators that advance international and intercultural understanding through education. CIE is an active participant in The Alliance for International Education.

Dr. Shaklee received her bachelor's degree in 1975 from the University of Kansas in elementary education and her master's degree in 1981 in Gifted Studies (Educational Psychology) also from KSU. In 1985 she received her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, early childhood education, from Mississippi State University. She has been a regular elementary classroom teacher, teacher of the gifted and international teacher educator for some twenty-five years.

Dr. Shaklee has a focused research agenda on the development of international educators and representation of diverse populations in gifted child education programs. She has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC),  Board of Directors for SENG (Serving the Needs of Gifted), and currently on the Board of Directors for  Virginia Association for the Gifted (VAG).  She also serves on the Advanced Academic Services Committee for the Fairfax County Public Schools.

Prior to her appointment as Director, Dr. Shaklee served as elementary program coordinator for the nationally recognized Professional Development Schools at GMU. She also held joint appointment at Kent State University in teacher and special education for some seventeen years focusing her work on international education, underrepresented gifted children and assessment. In addition, she served as senior lecturer at the College of The Bahamas (COB), involved in the reorganization of the College and faculty evaluation. She was instrumental in the development of the joint COB/KSU master's degree programs. She has provided a number of professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators internationally and domestically on differentiation, giftedness in culturally diverse populations, culturally responsive teaching, assessment, portfolios and teacher development/evaluation.  She currently serves on four international teacher education development projects working with teachers from China, Eurasia, Russia and Greece.  Dr. Shaklee, created and implemented the IB authorized Level I and Level II programs, the first in North America.

• The relationship between culturally responsive teaching and the identification of diverse populations for gifted programs
• The relationship between differentiated instruction, student achievement and staff development
• Assessment of teacher candidates and ongoing assessment of practitioners using performance based assessments
• The effectiveness of online learning environments for international delivery of graduate coursework
• International teacher development through professional learning communities, action research, inquiry and mentoring
• Influence of IB in closing the achievement gap

Dr. Shaklee is author of a number of books, chapters and articles:

Shaklee, B., (in press).  Promoting Peace Education Through Teacher Education.  In E. Ndura-Ouedraogo and R. Amster (Eds). 

Building Peace Education, Cambridge Scholars Press..

Shaklee, B. (2008).  Highly gifted . In B. Kerr (Ed) Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and Talent. SAGE Publications.

     Shaklee, B. (2008).  Domains of Talent.  In B. Kerr (Ed) Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and Talent. SAGE Publications