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Lynne F. Henwood
Lynne Henwood
has dedicated her career to advocating for gifted and twice-exceptional learners. She is currently the Head of FlexSchool’s Cloud Campus, a fully synchronous virtual school for gifted and 2e students, and has served two terms as President of the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NJAGC). Lynne also serves on the Strengthening Gifted and Talented Education Advisory Committee (SGTEAC) for the New Jersey Department of Education. Previously, she was a gifted teacher and program coordinator for Washington Township Schools in Morris County, NJ. Lynne earned a B. A. in Psychology from Dickinson College, a Gifted Education Certificate from Rutgers University, and an M. A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut Neag School of Education (Concentration: Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development). In 2018, Lynne was named New Jersey's Gifted Teacher of the Year and is the 2019 Mensa Foundation's Gifted Education Fellowship Award winner. Most recently, Lynne was awarded the NAGC 2020 Master’s & Specialist Award, and her NJAGC Advocacy Team won the NAGC 2020 David W. Belin Advocacy Award. Additionally, in 2020, she served as a judge for Mensa’s Excellence in Research awards program and was New Jersey’s first official expert witness in the area of Gifted and Talented Education. She has presented at several conferences (NAGC, SENG, NJAGC, ASPEN, Rutgers Gifted Education Conference) and has been a panelist on the MindMatters Roundtable and the G Word Panel Discussion. As a parent of four uniquely gifted children, Lynne understands that all children need to feel valued, accepted, and respected.
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