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Melissa Hinshaw is the Assessment Coordinator at Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development. Throughout her thirty-year career as an education professional, she has served as a classroom teacher, administrator, consultant and Account Manager for NWEA. You can find recent blog posts and interviews about assessment from her in CTD publications. She presents at national and regional conferences on gifted education, assessment and using data for informing programming and instruction for students. She has a BS in Education, MS in Leadership and Advanced Graduate Certificate in Policy Analysis.