BCGT

Barrington Council for the Gifted and Talented


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!


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.

 


Book Club
  • 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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