Kent Bowers

Board Member - isad

Kent Bowers has been a classroom teacher for forty-eight years.  He taught English, social studies, humanities and seminar for gifted students at Northglenn High School for twenty-nine years. He was the founder and director of the Pascal Center for Concentrated Studies in Adams 12 Five Star Schools. For the next nineteen years he taught humanities,  literature, English and as a Second Language, and in 2018 was named the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty of the Year of the Community College of Aurora. He is a graduate of Colgate and Brown Universities, studied Gifted Education at Columbia University and spent a term at Trinity College, Oxford.  Kent is painter and professional printmaker, and enjoys writing poetry, essays and travel journals documenting his seventeen visits to Europe.  His interest in the Institute derives from those decades in the classroom where he became more and more convinced that there were indeed unmistakable and important differences, as well as types of differences, among students.  He believes the Institute, under the leadership of Dr. Silverman, is a pioneer in identifying those differences and addressing the complexities, challenges and opportunities they present to young people and their families.