Lisa Pagano currently serves as AIG & Talent Development District Lead for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools where she leads and supports elementary gifted and advanced programming and provides professional learning and coaching to over 115 schools. Before this role, she served as the district's TD Compliance Specialist where she made intentional changes to build equity and consistency with gifted identification and the screening process. She has been an AIG Teacher in a variety of elementary settings, a classroom teacher, and an Academic Facilitator at a gifted magnet school. Gifted education is a true passion of hers and she loves what she does! She recently renewed her National Board Certification in Early & Middle Childhood Reading-Language Arts and has certifications in School Leadership, Academically & Intellectually Gifted, Reading, and Elementary Education. Lisa was recently elected to the NCAGT Board of Directors. She also works as a Per Diem Consultant with Thinking Maps and has recently launched her own gifted education consulting business- bright & brilliant, LLC.

Lisa is excited to present three different sessions at NCAGT this year! All sessions are centered around innovative instructional practices to engage and challenge our AIG and advanced learners.
--PoppED: The Language of Literature through Pop Culture
--Thinking Maps are Magnetizing! Cultivating Critical & Creative Thinkers
--Expanding Vocabulary & Language though Word Play