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Text Box:   ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE BYLAWS MISSION STATEMENT GOALS   YEARLY AGENDA       3 MEETINGS Informational/Interactive Scholarship/Programs GT Talent Showcase   CAMPUS SUPPORT   NEWS Bulletins/Post Cards/Email MEDIA               Text Box: We are still considering how to make this information available to other organizations via our website. Of course anyone is welcome to contact us directly. As we develop our new website, we hope to cultivate a password section giving access to our organizational information. Any GT Board member of another GT organization or someone interested in this venue will be able to request the password in the future via email. Keep watching for more updates on this interactive part of this page on our website.   Text Box: Founder Shannon South - May 7, 2001 Text Box: Text Box: Text Box: Text Box:

Text Box: This Page Is Dedicated To How We Do The Organizational Thing.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                

Text Box: We Hope to Share the Above Information Interactively soon on the page. Text Box:  IAGT is going into it's 6th year in the community of Irving, Texas. Most of our students are in the Irving Independent School District.. We have come a long way and have learned a lot collectively and individually concerning the dynamics of maintaining a healthy organization. We have had lean and full seasons. Our Founder, Shannon South as an accomplished GT educator who raised a gifted and talented son who graduated in the top 5% of his class had a genuine heart of concern for the program her son successfully exampled.  Ms. South's experience as a parent of a GT child, her education, and her often pragmatic view steered the Charter Members as they developed a solid foundation for the organization. She resisted any hierarchy in structure while advocating a circular realm of accountability that enabled ever parent, general member, or Board Member to function according to their capacity and desire. The structure has served us well over the years encouraging a spirit of camaraderie and mutuality working toward the same end, "Putting the GT Student First". Using the foundational By laws borrowed from the HEB Gifted and Talented group, a charter committee of two expounded on the base By Laws and developed a flexible format that could be adapted to the volunteer base available each year.  The organizations potential to flourish matches the amount of volunteer energy expended.  The bylaws are such a solid template for operation that there is never any need to reinvent the wheel. consequently freeing the organizational focus to execute programs, care for the campuses, and generate more membership. We would like to share any of our experiences and material with any other sister GT group that have an interest or need in developing their own GT organization.     Text Box:     Text Box:  

Text Box: We want to Congratulate and Encourage the New and even more Mature GT Parent & Friends Groups for initiating such and endeavor and even more - maintaining it with all the busy lives we live in our culture today.. We have found that those who Volunteer are usually active in many organizations.  With the temptation to spread ourselves too thin, we would exhort you to keep your Gifted and Talented group a priority. The State Legislatures, State Board of Educations and even the Local School Districts need to know we are concerned and vigilant  watch and care for the gifted and talented student population. Since they are often a minority, they tend to be over looked especially when budgets and funding are involved. In the State of Texas, our active Parent & Friend Groups enhance the Gifted and Talented Rating for each school. The group is a criteria for the Exemplary Rating of a School District's Gifted and Talented Program. Reference:: Texas Education Code: 29.121 Texas Education Agency Text Box:   OUR ORGANIZATIONAL ASPIRATION:     To Share Our Experiences and Materials with Other GT Parent & Friends Organizations that Need the Coordination. (We would hope this web site would be the vehicle to engage in such an exchange.)

 

 

 

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 IAGT, Irving Association for Gifted and Talented, is an organization of parent and friend advocates who partner with IISD for the intellectual,

emotional and social needs of our gifted and talented student population in our community of Irving, Texas. We put the student need first.

 

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