The Barrington Council for the Gifted and Talented (BCGT) is a
non-profit organization of parents and educators
whose common purpose is to support gifted education in School District 220. On this website you will find information
about BCGT, the events we sponsor, newsletters, contact and membership information and links to other
interesting resources.
We hope you join us!
Calling all Volunteers!
We are looking for some energetic and enthusiastic parents to join
us in the 2012-2013 school year to help us continue to bring our programs
and advocacy for gifted education in our school district. Several
board positions are open. Please consider joining us and bringing
your ideas and expertise to our group. You can contact us at
bcgt@bcgt.org for more
information.
BCGT awards nearly $2000 in grants to district teachers and programs again this year!
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Upcoming Events |
- The
Spring issue of the BCGT newsletter is now available.
To view this newsletter, please click here or to access it and previous issues you can go to the Newsletter page. - Summer Programs List
To view our document with some links to summer programs for gifted children, please click here. If you have any recommendations for programs your children have attended that you would like to share, please send them to webmaster@bcgt.org.
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Book Club |
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Wednesday, Apr 25th: Children's
Book Club meeting
Please join us for our last Children's Book Club meeting for this school year. This time our book club meeting is for 2nd through 4th graders. We will be discussing the award winning book Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez. Online free registration is now available from the Calendar page.
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Check it out |
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BCGT Awards Nearly $2,000 in Grants in the 2011-2012 school
year!
We are very proud to honor these grants to our extended teachers and classrooms and would like to thank our members for their contributions which made this possible. Please click on the link above to view a summary of the grants that were honored this year. - Information from the BCGT Best Practices presentation is available below.
Self-Contained teacher Georgia Nelson's presentation about Dystopic Fiction and recommended books.
Enrichment Instructional Specialist Lori Ford's presentation about Brain Dance and Brain Dance steps. - Dr. Fiedler's Presentation: "Organizationally
Challenged?"
Slides from the presentation by Dr. Ellen Fiedler - "Organizationally Challenged? How Developing Executive Function Can Help the Gifted" can be viewed by clicking above. - Overview of Extended
Services Presentation
Slides from the presentation by Julie Luck Jensen, Director of Extended Services for District 220, and Tim Martin, Counselor Liaison BHS Extended programs can be viewed by clicking above. This presentation provides an provides a brief description of the services offered in this school district as well as some parenting information regarding gifted children.