Links and Resources

Info and Background:

• Understanding Our Gifted is a quarterly publication of Open Space Communications in Boulder, CO. It encourages a wide range of viewpoints.
• Hoagie's Gifted Education Page is a great site for parents and students. It has extensive resources and connections.
• Davidson Institute for Talent Development hosts an extensive gifted database offering free programs and resources for students, parents and educators.

Distance Learning, Talent Searches, Scholarships:

• Apex Learning provides commercial online Advanced Placement courses.
• Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP)
  
• Johns Hopkins University Center For Talented Youth (CTY)
• Stanford University Education Project for Gifted Youth (EPGY)
• Purdue's Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI)
• Centrum, located in Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, Washington
• WAETAG Scholarships
• Washington Search for Young Scholars - Not offered in the 2010-2011 school year due to State budget cuts which have affected the University Of Washington and the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars.

Groups Like Us

• Northwest Gifted Child Association (NWGCA), P.O. Box 1226, Bellevue, WA 98009 - for information email Ann Koch
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
  
• National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Publishes 'Parenting for High Potential and Gifted Child Quarterly'
• National Research Center on Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) is a consortium of research universities and is an organization funded by Federal Javitts Grants.
• California Association for the Gifted (CAG)
• Washington Council for Honors and Advanced Placement (WCHAP) - for information email Mac Willems, President
• Washington Imagination Network (WIN)
• Washington Future Problem Solving (WAFPS)

Teaching Materials / Curricula

• The Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, University of Connecticu
• Also see the CAG mentioned above
• Washington Oregon Alaska Textbook Representatives Association (WOATRA)

Training and Professional Development

• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is an organization that offers training and other resources for educators and parents.

Political lobbies and other Links

• Genius Denied - How to stop wasting our brightest young minds
  
• Washington Coalition for Gifted Education (WCGE) - "Learning Without Limits"

Official Information

• Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington State, for information email Gayle Pauley, Director of Program Integration
• Washington Administrative Code (WAC) regarding Highly Capable Students