Barbara Mitchell Hutton is the Former Head of School at NOVA Middle School, an independent school serving highly capable and gifted learners in Olympia, Washington. NOVA’s vision is to inspire lifelong learning for a more compassionate and engaged world. Inspired by her now adult daughter, Barbara has spent thirty years advocating for the educational, social and emotional needs of gifted children and their families. A frequent speaker at local, state, national and international conferences about asynchrony and Developmental Differentiation, she authored the chapter in Off the Charts: Asynchrony and the Gifted Child about schools and responding to asynchrony in the classroom.