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Florida Gifted Network consists of a group of parents, educators, and community members working to improve the education of Florida’s gifted children.

Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to this website to learn effective advocacy skills. You will learn to recognize pitfalls and avoid mistakes that prevent parents from successfully advocating for their children.

This site is the companion website to Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition- The Special Education Survival Guide (ISBN 978-1-892320-09-4) by Pamela Wright and Peter Wright, published by Harbor House Law Press.

Futuros Radiantes/Bright Futures is Discovery Cube’s award-winning, successful, Early Learners program designed for low-income parents of children six and under to help their children become school ready, develop their complex language and reading skills in English and Spanish, understand number sense, and incorporate science-thinking skills.  By increasing parents’ understanding of how young children learn, they will be better equipped to help their children be developmentally ready to learn and better prepared to succeed in school and life. The parent-only model is designed for parents to learn how to engage with and teach their children reading and STEM skills at home.

In this book, Jan and Bob Davidson and Laura Vanderkam show parents and educators how to reach and challenge gifted students. They offer practical advice based on their experience as founders of a nonprofit organization that assists gifted children. They show parents how to become their children’s advocates, how to win support for gifted students within the local schools, and when and how to go outside the school system. They discuss everything from acceleration (“skipping” a grade) to homeschooling and finding mentors for children. They tell stories of real parents and students who overcame poor schooling environments to discover the joy of learning.

The mission of the Georgia Association for Gifted Children is to advocate for gifted children and youth by working with educators, parents, policy-makers, and the community to meet the needs of the gifted.

The Center for Gifted Education Policy (CGEP), which is housed in APA’s Education Directorate, focuses on gifted and talented PreK-12 education, teaching, and learning. CGEP is also particularly interested in researching the role of psycho-social skills in talent development and high performance in all domains.

The Office of Gifted and Talented Education provides learning environments which foster personal and social responsibility, multi-cultural competence, and technical communication skills for citizenship in the global environment of the 21st Century.  They design and deliver rigorous and relevant curriculum to students in grades K-12 to address their academic and intellectual needs. Additionally, the Atlanta GATE program offers a variety of resources, enrichment, and internships for gifted students.

The Gifted Association of Missouri believes an appropriate education is every Missourian’s concern and that children with unusual potential have unique learning needs. They seek to raise awareness within the state of Missouri to the needs of these children as well as their needs at home, at school, and in the community.

Gifted Atlanta is an online resource for the gifted community in Atlanta, Georgia. They provide information about gifted education, enrichment, summer programs, early college, and gifted advocacy in the Atlanta area.

In this fascinating book, Ellen Winner uses case studies and the latest biological and psychological evidence to explore and debunk nine myths about giftedness. Considering the role schools play in fostering exceptional abilities, the author castigates schools for wasting resources and advocates elevating standards for all children while focusing gifted education on those with extreme abilities.

The mission of Gifted Culture Project is to create fun, powerful stories and activities that teach gifted kids about being gifted. They believe that when gifted kids understand what it means to see and experience the world the way that gifted people do, they’ll spend less time trying to fix or hide their differences, and more time connecting, creating, and learning about the world as a place where they are seen and where they belong. Their workbook series Gifted Culture Kids lays the groundwork for kids to integrate the idea of giftedness as a part of who they are (an identity) and how they see the world (a culture).

Since 1979, the Gifted Development Center (GDC) has served as a global leader in the assessment and development of gifted individuals of all ages. GDC provides assessment, advocacy, counseling, books, articles, Advanced Development Journal, and a Speakers Bureau to educate the public about the needs of gifted children and adults.

Florida defines gifted students as students who have superior intellectual development and are capable of high performance. Each school district serves gifted students through local plans that provide academic and social emotional support. Information regarding resources, publications and other supporting information for teachers, administrators, parents, students and community members are provided on this site.

The Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) at Purdue University is an innovative center dedicated to the discovery, study, and development of human potential. The mission of GERI is holistic development of giftedness, creativity, and talents among individuals throughout their life span through enrichment programs for gifted youth; graduate programs for future scholars and leaders; professional development and coursework for educators of gifted; and cutting-edge research in psychology and education related to giftedness, creativity, and talent development.

Gifted Exchange is a blog about gifted children, schooling, parenting, education news and changing American education for the better. This blog is supported by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

Gifted Guru is a site for everyone interested in or passionate about gifted kids and even adults. You can expect to find practical and useful resources, tips and tricks for parents and educators and homeschooling moms alike.