Denise Ford

Gifted Specialist

Kirkwood School District

Denise Ford has been an educator for over 40 years, working in elementary and secondary schools, with the earliest learners as a parent educator, with graduate students as an adjunct professor, as a K-12 gifted specialist, and a SENG model parent group discussion leader. She received her PhD in Teaching and Learning, writing her dissertation on stress and exercise with the gifted child, and recently earned a graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning.