All Things Gifted and Talented articles for gifted and talented students and their parents. There is much tech talk too.

The Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development with an emphasis on academic acceleration, they showcase programs and services, including professional development courses and workshops. They have special programs throughout the year for gifted and talented students.

Crushing Tall Poppies site advocates for gifted children and provides advice and resources for homeschooling.

Duke TIP Duke University’s support for academically gifted students. The website provides information, research and resources.

Gifted Challenges by a blogger and clinical psychologist  who advocates gifted services. Her website addressed young people facing difficulties related to giftedness.

Gifted Development Center provides assessment, advocacy, counseling, books, articles, Advanced Development Journal, and a Speakers Bureau. Gifted specialists offer suggestions to parents and teachers.

Hoagies Gifted the all things gifted resource website for parents and teachers that helps parents understand what “gifted” means and how to test for giftedness. Assists students to find programs and services outside of schools and provides support to parents and teachers of gifted students.

Methods and Materials for Gifted Education includes videos about teaching gifted students.

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) unites parents, teachers, educators, other professionals, and community leaders to assist gifted and talented children and youth.  Among other online resources, the organization’s electronic handbook on parent advocacy guides parents in getting organized to push education leaders for more services and programs. Its “Gifted by State” chart lists gifted education contacts in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development located at the University of Connecticut, it includes links to research and news articles on gifted education, in addition to a resource page for parents with websites and organization recommendations.

Rochester SAGE Supporting Advanced & Gifted Education includes parents, students, & teachers, promoting accelerated learning in Michigan’s Rochester Community Schools.

Stephanie S. Tolan has woven her advocacy for gifted children into her books for children. Her website provides information about her books and also a list of books about gifted education. There is much information here, including her article “Is It a Cheetah,” which was published in the Highly Gifted Child newsletter.

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)  was formed in 1981 and includes a website which provides a wealth of gifted education recommendations and resources for parents that include names of speakers and workshop leaders, books and research articles, contact information for active parent groups, a list of mental health professionals that work with gifted students, and how to get a child tested for gifted. SENG provides parents with support, information, resources and a forum to discuss the issues parents run into raising and educating gifted children and adults.

World Council for Gifted & Talented Children international organization dedicated to addressing better understanding of gifted and talented children worldwide.

Reports

A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students Vol. I by Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, and Miraca U. M. Gross

A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students Vol. II Edited by Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, and Miraca U. M. Gross

“National Excellence: A Case for Developing America’s Talent”  by Pat O’Connell Ross and Others. 1993

Books

Bringing Out the Best: A Guide For Parents of Young Gifted Children by Jacqulyn Saunders with Pamela Espeland

College Planning for Gifted Students: Choosing and Getting into the Right College by Sandra Berger

The Creative Spirit by Daniel Goleman, Paul Kaufman, and Michael Ray

Educating Your Gifted Child: How One Public School Teacher Embraced Homeschooling (Perspectives in Gifted Homeschooling) (Volume 6) by Celi Trépanier 

Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds by Jan & Bob Davidson

Get Off My Brain: A Survival Guide for Lazy Students by Randall McCutcheon

The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook by Judy Galbraith, MA. and Jim Delisle, Ph.D.

Re-Forming Gifted Education: How Parents and Teachers Can Match the Program the Child by Karen B. Rogers

Movies About Gifted Kids

Matilda

Magnus

Little Man Tate

Vitus

Searching for Bobby Fischer

October Sky

August Rush

Bee Season