Dina Brulles, Ph.D., is the Gifted Master’s Program Coordinator at Arizona State University and the former Director of Gifted Education at Paradise Valley USD in Arizona. Dr. Brulles served as NAGC’s Governance Secretary and the board’s School District Representative. Dina received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from Arizona Association for Gifted and Talented, the 2022 NAGC Anne Isaacs Award for Distinguished Service, the 2019 and 2020 NAGC Book of the Year Awards (practitioners), NAGC’s inaugural 2014 Gifted Coordinator Award, the Professional Development Network Award in 2013, and has worked with the Javits Frasier Scholarship Program since 2010. Dina has co-authored the books: A Teacher’s Guide to Flexible Grouping and Collaborative Learning; Designing Gifted Education Programs; Differentiated Lessons for All Learners; The Cluster Grouping Handbook; Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classrooms; Helping All Gifted Children Learn; Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests: A Call for Equity in Gifted Education, the Naglieri General Ability Test – Verbal and over one hundred articles and chapters.

