MISSION

The Kentucky Association for Gifted Education connects and empowers parents, all educators, and community members to meet the unique needs of high potential/gifted and talented individuals through awareness, advocacy, and action.

VISION

Giftedness and high potential in Kentucky learners are recognized, universally valued, actively supported, and developed.

CORE VALUE:

We value individual differences and perspectives, creativity and innovation, excellence and equity, integrity and credibility, and research-based decisions and practices.

PURPOSE

The Kentucky Association for Gifted Education (KAGE), officially organized in 1979, is a non-profit volunteer group of parents, teachers, administrators, other educators, and all citizens interested in being advocates for appropriate educational opportunities for gifted and talented youth in Kentucky.

This association seeks to

• support appropriate educational opportunities for gifted and talented students;
• respond proactively to current educational initiatives as they relate to gifted and talented students;
• encourage the improvement of educational services to all students, including students who are gifted and talented; offer training for parents and all educators of gifted and talented students;
• create strategic partnerships that enable KAGE to reach out to key constituencies and more broadly communicate important messages related to high potential youth;
• disseminate information about opportunities for gifted and talented students as well as for parents and educators of these students;
• inform the public of the needs of gifted and talented students;
• assist parents, all educators, and public officials in identifying and assessing resources to meet the needs of students who are gifted and talented;
• provide scholarship assistance through the KAGE Foundation to qualified students participating in summer gifted programs offered by Kentucky public universities; and secure permanent state funding and legislation to provide appropriate education for the gifted and talented students in every school district in Kentucky.