Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page is an all-things-gifted website, filled with resources, articles, books and links to help and support parents, teachers, and gifted learners.
Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page is an all-things-gifted website, filled with resources, articles, books and links to help and support parents, teachers, and gifted learners.
This article retells a parent’s successful advocacy story about how her daughter achieved academic acceleration in school.
Idaho: The Association for the Gifted brings together parties interested in gifted from many perspectives. They strive to connect parents, teachers, or other interested parties to resources for gifted education opportunities. The Association serves as the voice for gifted students throughout the State of Idaho through advocacy, education, legislation and networking.
Lack of access to gifted education is prevalent, yet preventable for Black and Hispanic students. In this article, Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford, and Jemimah L. Young share data on under-representation in the U.S., along with contributing factors and recommendations.
The Illinois Association for Gifted Children empowers educators, families and communities by advancing effective practices, programs and policies to promote the development of gifted and talented children throughout Illinois.
This blog by the mother of a gifted child focuses on the importance of advocacy for gifted learners and the ins and outs of gifted homeschooling as she finds what works best for her daughter’s learning needs.
The Independent School Alliance for Minority Affairs (The Alliance) is a leading access organization in independent school admissions counseling and placement for students in grades K-9. The Alliance recruits, educates, counsels, and advocates on behalf of families of color seeking to gain access to independent schools of Greater Los Angeles. Working in partnership with families and schools, the Independent School Alliance helps students of color access an independent school education and supports and guides the family after a student is enrolled in a school.
The Indiana Association for the Gifted educates and advocates for meeting the academic and social/emotional needs of gifted youth.
In this book, Wendy Skinner shares her family’s story of struggle and eventual success in working with the schools and trying out various educational options to meet her children’s needs. Anecdotes of the author’s experiences and discussions of a variety of educational approaches will help parents reading this book discover effective strategies for minimizing parent-school conflict. Learn how to build trusting relationships with teachers and administrators, as well as how your voice can influence school decisions that will allow your gifted child to learn and thrive.
The Iowa Talented and Gifted Association is a 501c3 nonprofit organization which was formed more than 40 years ago with a vision that gifted and talented children in the State of Iowa should receive an education commensurate with their abilities and needs. The mission of the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association is to recognize, support, and respect the unique and diverse needs of talented and gifted learners through advocacy, education, and networking. ITAG is an affiliate of the National Association for Gifted Children.
This article is the second in a series of three on the processes parents go through in raising an exceptionally gifted child. This article, based on a study of 12 exceptionally gifted students, is a discussion of the educational experiences of these students and the controversies that their parents confronted regarding schooling, specifically regarding: gifted stereotypes, friendships with like-minded peers, and educational resolutions for reading, writing and mathematics.
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. Since 2000, the Foundation has awarded $190 million in scholarships to nearly 2,500 students from 8th grade through graduate school, along with comprehensive counseling and other support services. The Foundation has also provided over $100 million in grants to organizations that serve such students.
JAGC (pronounced Jag-C) works in positive partnership with the Jeffco School District’s Gifted & Talented (GT) Department to provide leadership by promoting information about the educational and social-emotional needs of our advanced students.
The Journal for the Education of the Gifted offers information and research on the educational and psychological needs of gifted and talented children. Devoted to excellence in educational research and scholarship, the journal acts as a forum for diverse ideas and points of view on gifted education, counseling, and parenting.
Kansas Association for Gifted, Talented and Creative is a not-for-profit advocacy group in the state of Kansas dedicated to promoting idenfitied gifted and other high achieving students. KGTC is affiliated with the National Association for Gifted Children.
The Kentucky Association for Gifted Education (KAGE), officially organized in 1979, is a non-profit volunteer group of parents, teachers, administrators, other educators, and all citizens interested in promoting appropriate educational opportunities for gifted and talented youth in Kentucky.