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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 administers programs for students with disabilities and for gifted students. 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: John Winn, Commissioner, Florida Department of Education.

Citrus County School District

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.

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

Council for Exceptional Children

Creative Thinking Networks/Centers

Davidson Institute for Talent Development

Duke University Talent Identification Program