Joanne Foster

Joanne Foster is co-author (with Dona Matthews) of the award-winning Being Smart about Gifted Education 2nd Edition, (2009, Great Potential Press), and Beyond Intelligence: Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids (2014, House of Anansi Press). She is also a parent, teacher, consultant, researcher, and education specialist. Dr. Foster has over thirty years experience working in the field of gifted education. She writes extensively about high-level development, including the ongoing series of articles ABCs of Being Smart featured in the journal Parenting for High Potential. She presents at conferences and learning venues across North America, focusing on a wide range of topics relating to optimal child development. Her most recent book is Not Now, Maybe Later: Helping Children Overcome Procrastination (2015, Great Potential Press). Dr. Foster teaches Educational Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.