About Us
Jean and Neal Cross are married to each other and, it seems, to education. Together, they have over seventy years of experience in education, mostly in Lincoln, NE and Colorado Springs, CO public schools. Jean has been a high school teacher of gifted students, high school assistant principal with numerous responsibilities for gifted students, and district gifted program coordinator. Neal has been a teacher, district consultant for social studies, district director of curriculum, and director of a Colorado teacher alternative licensing program. Jean and Neal have experience as adjunct instructors in higher education. In these roles, they developed the knowledge, skills, and experience related to the needs of gifted students, their parents, and teachers. These experiences are now focused in their consultation service, Cross Consultation for Gifted Education.
Cross Consultation for Gifted Education provides gifted students, their parents, and their teachers with a full range of foundation services needed for success in K-12 schools and afterwards. Students and parents may receive consultation in educational planning and parents may learn skills in parenting their gifted students. Teachers are offered graduate level courses in gifted education, an advanced writing curriculum, instructional strategies for increasing rigor in secondary classrooms.
Thank you for your interest in gifted education and our company. Public education is intended as free and appropriate education for all children including those who are advanced cognitively and emotionally beyond their age peers. We believe the learning needs and emotional well-being of gifted learners should be accommodated within the school program. Our services are designed to support you.
Jean Cross, Ph.D.
Education: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Certification in Annemarie Roeper Method of Qualitative Assessment
- NE Endorsement in Gifted Education
- Ph.D. (Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction)
- Qualitative Research in Gifted Education
- CO Principal License
- M.Ed. (English Education)
- B.S.Ed. (Major: English)
Experience in Gifted Education: Nebraska and Colorado
- High School Teacher: English and Latin
- Secondary Consulting Teacher in Gifted Education
- High School Assistant Principal (pop. 2300 students)
- District Director of Gifted Education (32,000 students)
- Coordinator of Services for Gifted Students in Educational Consortium of Eleven Small Districts (100-2000 students)
- State Advisory Committee for Gifted Education to CO State Board of Education
- University Instructor for Gifted Education Classes Leading to NE Endorsement
Neal Cross
Education:
- B.A. (Major: History) University of Nebraska, Kearney
- M.A. (Curriculum and Instruction) University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Experience in Education:
- High School Social Studies Teacher
- District K-12 Social Studies Consultant
- District Director of Curriculum (31,000 students)
- Director of alternative teacher licensing program
- University adjunct instructor for education classes Leading to principal license
- Teacher, House of Representatives Page School, Washington, D.C.