Advisory Board

Mark Saul, Ph.D., is a senior scholar for the John Templeton Foundation, a philanthropy supporting scientific research and the quest for human knowledge. His recent work includes curriculum development with the Educational Development Center. Earlier, with the National Science Foundation, Saul directed the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, an honor he himself received in 1984.

Internationally, Saul has consulted with educators in Taiwan, China, Bulgaria, Botswana, South Africa and India. His publications include an elementary text on trigonometry co-authored with I.M. Gelfand. He has served as president of the American Regions Mathematics League, a board member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and a member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board for the National Research Council.

Rena Subotnik, Ph.D., directs the American Psychological Association’s Center for Gifted Education Policy. The center generates public awareness, advocacy, clinical applications and research to enhance the performance of children and adolescents with special gifts and talents. Previously, she was a professor in gifted education at Hunter College and a gifted education specialist in the Seattle Public Schools.

Subotnik is the first author of Genius Revisited: High IQ Children Grown Up and co-editor of books including Developing Giftedness and Talent Across the Life Span, Optimizing Student Success with the Other Three R’s: Reasoning, Resilience and Responsibility, and The International Handbook of Research on Giftedness and Talent (2nd Edition). She received the National Association for Gifted Children Distinguished Scholar award in 2002.

Eric Mazur, Ph.D., widely recognized for his work in optical physics, is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. Believing that better science education for all — not just science majors — is vital for continued progress, he devotes part of his research group’s efforts to improving classroom instruction. His Peer Instruction method has developed an international following and has been adopted across many science disciplines.

Mazur chairs the instructional strategy advisory group for Turning Technologies, a company developing interactive response systems for the education market. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the Optical Society of America, he received the Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers in 2008.