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Sally Reis is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and a University Teaching Fellow in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology of the Gifted and Talented from the University of Connecticut in 1981 and her B.A. in English and Psychology from Chatham College in 1973. Before joining UConn, Reis worked as a public school teacher and administrator for 15 years. Over her 40-year tenure at the university, she held numerous leadership positions, including Head of the Educational Psychology Department, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs where she enhanced undergraduate programs and teaching excellence, holder of the Letitia Neag Chair in Educational Psychology, and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Interim Provost. She retired from full-time faculty duties in 2022 but continues her research and professional engagements, including co-directing projects on academically talented students with autism.
Reis has authored more than 250 scholarly works, including books such as The Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A how-to guide for talent development (3rd ed., 2015, with J. S. Renzulli), Enrichment clusters: A practical plan for real-world, student-driven learning (2014, with J. S. Renzulli and M. Gentry), The joyful reading resource kit: Teaching tools, hands-on activities, and enrichment resources, grades K-8 (2009), Enriching curriculum for all students (2nd ed., 2008, with J. S. Renzulli), and Work Left Undone: Compromises and Challenges of Talented Females (1999). Her research specializations include gifted and talented education, talent development, enrichment and differentiation, achievement gaps, gender differences, children's literature, professional development, and reading education. Co-developer of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, she served as principal investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented from 1990 to 2013, influencing national legislation such as the Javits program, and co-directed the Confratute Summer Institute. Reis has received the Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (2003), UConn Teaching Fellow (1998), Distinguished Service Award (1988), and Early Leader Award (1985). A past-president of the National Association for Gifted Children, she serves on the editorial board of Gifted Child Quarterly and has provided workshops nationwide on enrichment and gender equity.
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