Scott L. Hunsaker, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership and Director of Undergraduate Teacher Preparation at Utah State University.  While at USU he has received the Teacher of the Year, Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, Carol and Bill Strong Human Service, and Faculty University Service Awards from the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services.  An active leader in gifted education at the national and state levels, Dr. Hunsaker has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and as President of the Utah Association for Gifted Children and has been recognized with NAGC’s Early Leader Award and UAGC’s Jewel Bindrup Award. He is author of articles published in Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, Roeper Review, Teaching for High Potential, and Parenting for High Potential. With his colleague Rebeccca Odoardi, he has authored two grants awarded under the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Student Program of the U.S. Department of Education.