As Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Amy Lynne Shelton is dedicated to designing, delivering, and studying innovative educational models and approaches intended to support a diverse community of advanced learners, their families and educators, and other collaborators in the field. Before becoming CTY’s executive director, Shelton served as the center’s senior director for research and led the center in an interim capacity, navigating the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it posed for CTY, its students, and their families. She is the founder of the CTY Baltimore Emerging Scholars Program, a free enrichment program for Baltimore students who show high academic potential. A professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Education, Shelton has held joint appointments in the School of Medicine and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Her administrative experience includes work at the department, school, and university levels. Prior to joining CTY and SOE, she served on the faculty of JHU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Her research on spatial skills, individual differences, and mechanisms of learning is couched in the broad context of understanding the characterization and needs of each individual learner. More recently Shelton’s work has focused on how these fundamental skills can be used to equitably identify and characterize students’ educational needs.
Keywords: Spatial cognition; gifted education; learning and memory; individual differences; equity in education; underserved populations.
