Organizations

• American Association for Gifted Children at Duke University    
  To foster a better understanding of the needs and capabilities of gifted children, to encourage research in the field of education and nurturing of gifted children, and to accomplish and encourage other initiatives relating to the development of gifted children.
• Council for Exceptional Children    
  The largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.
• Gifted Development Center    
  Serves parents, schools, and advocacy groups with information about identification, assessment, counseling, learning styles, programs, presentations, and resources for gifted children and adults.
• Institute for Educational Advancement    
  A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting our nation's most talented young people to identify and develop their fullest potential. The Institute focuses its attention on creating and supporting educational practices and policies that are student-centered, and that promote academic rigor, high standards, excellence in the arts, and educational innovation.
• National Association for Gifted Children    
• Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted    
  Serves Oregon parents and the educational community.
• Oregon Destination ImagiNation    
  Destination ImagiNation is a program for students in kindergarten through college that teaches life skills and expands imagination through team-based creative problem solving while meeting the Educational Standards.
• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted    
  To support bright, talented, gifted individuals and their families, and the professionals who work with them, to better understand the nature of giftedness, and to help these individuals reach their personal potential.
• World Council for Gifted and Talented Children    
  A diverse organization networking the globe with an active membership of educators, scholars, researchers, parents, educational institutions, and others interested in giftedness to focus world attention on gifted and talented children and ensure the realization of their valuable potential to the benefit of humankind.

Periodicals

• Gifted Child Quarterly    
• Gifted Child Today    
• Journal for the Education of the Gifted    
• Parenting for High Potential    
• Teaching Exceptional Children    
  

Research

• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)    
  A federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone interested in education throughout the United States and the world.
• Giftedness and Learning Disabilities    
• Glossary of Gifted Terms    
  

TAG Materials

• Free Spirit    
• Great Potential Press    
• Pieces of Learning    
• Prufrock Press    
  

University Support for Talented and Gifted Students

• Oregon University TAG Contacts   11/10/2008 (23.53 KB)
• The College of William and Mary Center for Gifted Education    
• Duke University, Talent Identification Program    
  Identifies gifted children and provides resources to nurture their development. TIP is committed to serving this unique group of students by providing services and programs beyond what is offered in the classroom. Through TIP a whole range of activities and programs are accessible to parents and teachers to meet the individual needs of gifted children.
• Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth    
  To inspire young people by offering distinctive educational opportunities that nurture intellectual abilities, advance academic achievement, and enhance personal development. Dedicated to identifying young people's academic talents in the liberal arts and offering them challenging in-school or out-of-school educational programs in mathematics, the sciences, and the humanities specially suited to their emerging abilities.
• Northwestern University, Center for Talent Development    
  This is a program for gifted youth out of the Department of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, just outside of Chicago, IL. This is an accredited learning center and research facility, providing programs and talent search opportunities to the gifted community.
• Stanford University, Education Program for Gifted Youth    
• University of Connecticut, National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented    
• University of New South Wales, Gifted Education Research, Resource, and Information Centre    
  Focused on teaching and research in gifted education, with the development and expansion of a range of vacation programs for gifted children, courses for their parents, conferences, seminars, and workshops for teachers with a special interest in gifted education, and the development of a range of teaching resources.

• Rebecca Blocher     (503) 947-5931
  Teaching & Learning Team - Ed. Specialist, TAG