Steven C. Haas

Director of Visual-Spatial Learner Identifier Project.

STEVEN C. HAAS, M.A., MPA, has worked in gifted education as a Gifted and Talented Resource Consultant, mentor, classroom teacher, Advanced Placement instructor, school administrator, researcher, and middle school principal.  For twenty-five years, Mr. Haas has served as Project Director for the Visual-Spatial Identifier Project, coordinating the development and validation of the Visual-Spatial Identifier©.  Within the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), he is actively engaged with the Javits-Frasier Scholarship Committee, the Diversity and Equity Committee, and the Native American Alaska Native Indigenous Peoples Special Interest Group.

He also is Associate Director of the Indigenous Students Leap Ahead (ISLA) Project, which supports teachers through programming and instruction to reach underserved populations of gifted Native American children in schools and school districts on and off reservations across America.

Steve is a frequent presenter at conferences of the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented, NAGC, the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, the National Indian Education Association, and the Native American Student Advocacy Institute of the College Board on a wide range of topics including teaching gifted visual-spatial learners, creativity, perfectionism, acceleration, and the needs of Native American children.