The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)

For over 50 years, NAGC has worked to increase public awareness about issues and concerns for education of our gifted and talented children and to affect positive change. Thus, NAGC invests all of its resources to train teachers, encourage parents and educate administrators and policymakers on how to develop and support gifted children and what’s at stake if high-potential learners are not challenged and encouraged. NAGC is a non-profit organization of parents, teachers/educators, community leaders and other professionals who unite to address the unique needs of all children.

Working on Gifted Issues, the WOGI Project

Encourages public schools to implement exemplary programs which challenge gifted students. Emphasis is placed on the following:

• improving the quality of existing programs
• initiating a model or demonstration program
• expanding student participation in existing programs

National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRCGT)

The NRC-G/T is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to investigate, develop, and disseminate new methods for identifying and teaching gifted students. Special emphasis is placed on research that serves highly able students from culturally, linguistically, and ethnically diverse populations. The NRC-G/T is located at the University of Connecticut and is run collaboratively with the University of Virginia and Yale University. In addition, researchers work in conjunction with more than 300 public school districts across the country as research study sites.

Florida Department of Education

The Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services supports school districts and others in their efforts to provide exceptional student education programs for students ages 3 - 21 who have disabilities and students who are gifted. Additionally, the bureau coordinates student services throughout the state and participates in multiple inter-agency efforts designed to strengthen the quality and variety of services available to students with special needs. Questions, concerns & comments regarding education issues of gifted and talented children may be sent to: Dr. Eric J. Smith, Commissioner, Florida Department of Education.

Or locally to:

Ms. Jean Reed, Director
Exceptional Student Education
Citrus County School District
1007 West Main Street
Inverness, Florida 34450
Phone: 352/726-1931 ext. 2330
Fax: 352/726-6698
reedj@citrus.k12.fl.us

Citrus County School District

A Quality Exceptional Student Education Program ensures the success of all students in an environment of trust, respect, and open communication. A Quality Exceptional Student Education Program provides for appropriate materials, qualified staff, inservice opportunities and adequate facilities. A Quality Exceptional Student Education Program has a student centered curriculum that is flexible, relevant and focuses on lifelong transitions, offers a complete continuum of delivery models and teaching strategies, and has the support of administration, teachers, parents, and community.

The gifted are those children and youth whose abilities and potential for accomplishment are so exceptional that differential education programming is necessary. These students possess the capabilities for outstanding performance in varying endeavors of their lives. In order that our gifted may become self-actualized, contributing members of society, they need to acquire skills of thinking, feeling, adapting and changing. Citrus County’s Gifted Education Program reflects this philosophy by providing individualized experiences that develop the intellectual, emotional, and social needs of the gifted.

For more information contact Nancy Haynes, Coordinator, Exceptional Student Education.

ESE Advisory Council
For more information contact Nancy Haynes at 726-1931 ext. 2331.

Check out the variety of ON-SITE PARENT TRAINING for Parents of ESE Students K-12.

Additional resources (listed alphabetically)

Academy of Achievement

American Assoc. for Gifted Children

Association for the Gifted

Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students (AEGUS)

Awesome Library

Being Smart about Gifted Children
Dona Matthews, Ph.D. and Joanne Foster, Ed.D. have a wonderful site full of links, resources, and workshop information. Their book, Being Smart, published by Great Potential Press, is for children who love to learn, and for parents and educators who seek to provide the necessary supports in that process: guidance, challenge, and encouragement.

Council for Exceptional Children
This site has information about training and events, the Foundation for Exceptional Children, and a legislation action center. It also presents resources and information found in the ERIC Clearinghouse.

Exceptional Children Conference Papers: Creativity and the Gifted
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information.

Davidson Institute for Talent Development
The Davidson Institute for Talent Development has the following mission statement: "To recognize, nurture and support profoundly gifted young people and to provide opportunities for them to develop their talents in positive ways to create value for themselves and others." This website offers a great cyber-source database - lots of resources and articles for parents, children, and educators.

Duke University Talent Identification Program

Education Index: Education Resources

Educational Web Adventures

Education World
Who Are the "Gifted" Children --- and How Should Schools Handle Them?

Florida Association for the Gifted (FLAG)

Florida Gifted Network (Formerly PALS)

Florida Virtual School

Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies
Located on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi, this center is dedicated to furthering the education of gifted students and leadership abilities through teaching, research, and services.

Genius Denied
This Web site contains information about the new book, Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds, by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development founders Jan and Bob Davidson. The site also offers a wealth of information regarding gifted education for students, parents, educators, and mentors, and contains information about gifted education policies.

Gifted Child Society

Gifted Children Monthly

Gifted Ed. K-12

Gifted ERIC digests

G T World: An on-line support community for parents of Gifted and Talented children.

HATS (High Acheiving Talented Students) Program at Stetson University

Hoagies Gifted Education
This exciting web site contains links to gifted education resources all over the world. It contains carefully annotated and organized content areas including academic acceleration, gifted learning disabled, profoundly gifted, educational theories, and lots more. In addition, you can find resources for kids, including magazines, software, web links and books, plus first hand success stories by parents of gifted kids. There is also a list of international organizations and conference.

Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children

Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth

Resources for Science Learning
Within the Resources for Science Learning website, users can find online science content, resources and professional development opportunities for educators.

KidSource

National Assoc.for the Education of Young Children

National Association for Gifted Children
NAGC provides national and state convention information, awards and grant updates, summer gifted and talented programs, public policies, publications and materials pertaining to gifted and talented education, and contact information about state gifted organizations.

National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented

Neag Center for Gifted Education & Talent Development

PAGES - Partners Allied for Gifted Education and Support

Prufrock Press: gifted education news, information, and resources about teaching and parenting gifted children

Summer Institute for the Gifted

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)
Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted is dedicated to informing gifted individuals, their families, and the professionals who work with them about the unique social and emotional needs of gifted persons. It supports programs that foster in gifted individuals the mental health and social competence necessary for them to be free to choose ways to develop and express their abilities and talents fully.

University of Iowa Belin and Blank Center for the Gifted
The Connie Belin & Jaqueline N. Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development is located at the University of Iowa. In addition to sponsoring the biennial Wallace Symposium on Talent Development, the Belin-Blank Center offers enrichment opportunities as well as guidance and counseling services to gifted children and their families.

World Council for Gifted and Talented Children
This is the Web site dedicated to information regarding worldwide efforts involving gifted and talented education. It contains international resources, current international research and projects, publications, and affiliated organizations around the world. The site also has information about The World Council’s biannual conference.