He serves on the boards of directors for the National Association for Gifted Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, and The Association for the Gifted. He also serves as coeditor of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented Newsletter. Prior to earning his Ph.D. in gifted education, he coordinated and taught for eight years in an academically gifted program in Montana, where he was a Montana semifinalist for U.S. West Teacher of the Year. His research interests include motivation, gifted and talented identification bias, and teaching with technol­ogy.