Carol Strip Whitney, Ph.D.
Author of:
- Helping Gifted Children Soar: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers (1st Edition) (Arizona Book Award Winner)
- Helping Gifted Children Soar: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers (2nd Edition)
- A Love for Learning: Motivation and the Gifted Child (Legacy Book Award Winner, iParenting Media Award Winner, Arizona Book Award Winner, Indie Excellence Book Award Winner)
Carol Strip Whitney, Ph.D., is a Gifted Education Specialist with the Olentangy School District in Lewis Center, Ohio. She has been a presenter at both the National Association for Gifted Children and the Ohio Association for Gifted Children, who honored her as the Ohio Gifted Educator of the Year. She also was awarded Teacher of the Year at Arrowhead Elementary where she teaches, was nominated for Distinguished Educator of the Year with OAGC, and was one of four teachers selected from the state for Best Teacher of Mathematics in Ohio. Other honors include the Golden Apple Achievement Award from Ashland Chemical and the 2007 Financial Achievement Award for Personal Finance Literacy from the Ohio JumpStart Financial Literacy Coalition.
Dr. Whitney has been published in the Roeper Review, Instructor, and Gifted Child Today and was selected to teach and consult at the Governor’s Summer Institute for the Gifted at Denison University. She is an adjunct professor at Ohio State University, has served on the board of the Ohio Association for Gifted Coordinators, and received the Communications Award from the Educational Facilities Center in Chicago.
Dr. Whitney earned her undergraduate and Master’s degrees at Western Michigan University and her Ph.D. in Curriculum Development at Ohio State University. She established successful gifted programs in two of Ohio’s fastest-growing school districts and consulted with many other communities as they researched and established gifted programming. Her “in the trenches” perspectives on giftedness stem from more than 30 years’ experience as a teacher of gifted children. She continues to serve the needs of gifted students every day in the elementary classroom.
