Dr. Sisk received the Distinguished Leaders Award from the Creative Education Foundation (CEF) in 1989; the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) in 1983 and 1994; the Creative Lifetime Award from CEF in 1994; and was selected for the Hall of Fame Award of CEF in 2005. Dr. Sisk served as one of the founders and first president of the American Creativity Association, and president of The Association for Gifted and Talented (TAG), the Florida Association for Gifted, and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC), where she was executive administrator, and editor of Gifted International from 1980-1993. She has conducted training sessions throughout the United States and internationally. Dr. Sisk was the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer at Lamar University in 2009.

Doctorate Courses: EDUD 6301 Teaching Learning Theories and Practices; EDUD 6305 Creativity and Innovation; EDUD 6305 Future of Schooling

Undergraduate Courses: SPED 2371 Foundations of Special Education; PEDG 4380 Secondary Methodology and Classroom Management;

Masters Courses: SPED 5370 Introduction to Autism; GTED 4357 Creativity and the Gifted Learner; PEDG 5371 Creative Instructional Strategies; PEDG 5369 Cognition & Instruction; PEDG 5388 Science Inquiry; PEDG 5388 Twenty-first Century Skills; PEDG 5388 Science Inquiry & Nature of Science; PEDG 5358 Identification and Assessment of Gifted and Talented Students; PEDG 5359 Gifted and Talented Curriculum; PEDG 5356 The Gifted Learner; PEDG 5360 Practicum; SPED 5301 Survey of Exceptional Learners.

Dr. Sisk was a classroom teacher of gifted students at the elementary, middle and high school level in Garden Grove, Calif. She was a supervisor of gifted education in Inglewood School district and a teaching and research assistant at UCLA. Dr. Sisk was a professor at the University of South Florida, coordinating programs for training teachers of the gifted, and department chair of the Department of Human Effective. She is the former Director of the U.S. Office of Gifted and Talented in Washington, DC. She currently teaches the courses for the endorsement in gifted education.

Dr. Sisk is author of Creative Teaching of the Gifted, and Making Great Kids Greater; coauthor with Doris Shallcross of Leadership: Making Things Happen, The Growing Person, and Intuition: An Inner Way of Knowing; coauthor with E. Paul Torrance of Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom and Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Level Consciousness; and co-author with Susan Israel and Cathy Block of Collaborative Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student; co-author with Hava Vidergor of Enhancing the gift of leadership: Innovative programs for all grade levels ; editor of Accelerating and Extending Literacy for Diverse Students, and co-author with Michele Kane of Planting Seeds of Mindfulness, and History of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. In addition, she has contributed numerous articles and chapters in books on gifted education including: Sisk, D. A. (2016). Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness revisited, Gifted Education International, 32(3), 194-209; Sisk, D. A. (2016). Spiritual intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness, Torrance Journal for

Applied Creativity, Vol. 1, 150-166; Sisk, D. A. (2017). Mindfulness practices that can be implemented in the regular classroom. Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy, 2(5)l-4.; Sisk., D. A. (2017). The art and science of planting seeds of mindfulness, Gifted Education International 20 (9)2-14; Sisk, D. A.) Implementing mindfulness in the classroom, California Association Journal, p. 15-20.

• Plans and implements the collaborative Lamar University/Duke University Talent Identification Recognition Program (TIP) for outstanding high achieving scholars in Southeast Texas.
• Plans and coordinates the Education Research Conference.
• Works with the Police Activity League (PAL).
• Provides workshops on Planting Seeds of Mindfulness based on the book published by Royal Fireworks (2018).
• Works with the planning committee for the International Literacy Association annual conference.
• Serves on the Board of Directors of the Samaritan Counseling Center.
• Serves on the Undergraduate Research Advisory Committee.
• Chairs the Ed. Research Committee.
• Serves on The Faculty Senate.
• Chairs the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Committee.
• Editorial Board member of the International Journal for Talent, Development and Creativity.
• Editorial Board member of Gifted Education International.
• Associate Editor of Gifted & Talented International.
• Associate Editor of Gifted International.