Organizations

National Association for Gifted Children

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) aims to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research. This site offers a variety of resources for educators and parents.

www.ncagt.org/

NCAG Advocates for Gifted Programs

One issue facing gifted education today is the underrepresentation of minority and low-income students in gifted education programs. NAGC recognizes this issue and is actively working to advocate for this social justice issue to be corrected. The following will direct you to an article that explain the problem and offers suggestions for beginning to resolve it. It is important to educate yourself on the issues facing gifted education because schools alone cannot solve the problems.

https://www.nagc.org/blog/access-gifted-education-social-justice-issue

SENG

The organization Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is an organization that is dedicated to empowering families and communities to guide gifted students to reach their goals: intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. If you are looking for ways to provide intellectual or emotional support for your gifted, talented, or twice-exceptional learner this is an organization worth checking out.

https://www.sengifted.org/about

Oregon Association for the Talented and Gifted

The Oregon Association for the Talented and Gifted (OATAG) advocates for the needs of talented and gifted children, serves as a resource for families, educators, and communities, and provides direction for excellence in education. Great resource to understand the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program in Oregon and for resources to support your students.

www.oatag.org/

OATAG Advocates for Gifted Programs

Recently the Joint Committee for Student Success, designed to study Oregon’s education system and recommend legislative action, released a report that mentioned the TAG program multiple times. The TAG program was mentioned because of the advocacy efforts of OATAG and parents. At the following link you can find the report and a summary of the report and see which issues in gifted education were addressed and what work there is still to be done. They recognized the need for increased funding, however an area of concern is that the achievement gap for wealthy and low-income TAG students did not seem to be taken into account.

https://www.oatag.org/advocacy.html

Council for Exceptional Children

The CEC helps you understand the issues that are important to the advancement of children and youth with exceptionalities and the professionals that work on their behalf. Through the CEC you can also learn how to take action on this issues. If you are interested in learning how gifted education is funded and how to advocate for proper funding visit this link: https://www.cec.sped.org/Policy-and-Advocacy/Current-Sped-Gifted-Issues/Funding