Lynn Marlowe

Lynn is an advocate working with children, parents, teachers, and administrators to provide answers to the many questions raised in educating gifted and twice exceptional children. She also works with families who wish to homeschool. After obtaining her MA in history from NYU, she worked in K-12 education as a high school history teacher, an elementary and middle school substitute, an elementary ESL teacher, and an adult ESL teacher before teaching college both in brick and mortar classrooms and online. Faculty positions have included Los Angeles City College, Pasadena City College, American Public University System, and several more. She has also written and/or edited several publications including the GRE History Review, SAT Subject Test Guide in History,and the GED Social Studies Guide for the Research and Education Association. Having been in K-12 and college classrooms for over 20 years, she was plunged into the world of gifted and 2E education by the journey she took with her own children. This included working with schools to accommodate the children and homeschooling. As a gifted advocate, she has been working with families and teachers for several years and has taken multiple graduate and continuing education courses in gifted and 2E issues. These courses have included topics on intensities in gifted children, acceleration, underachievement, perfectionism, anti-intellectualism, executive functioning, and specific curricula for gifted children. She has also attended conferences in gifted education and the needs of gifted people.