Gifted Atlanta

GiftedAtlanta.com is a non-commercial, not-for-profit web site serving families of gifted children in the greater Atlanta area. Its purpose is to support parents in nurturing gifted children’s development, both in school and beyond it.

I firmly believe public schools should serve gifted children’s needs for specialized instruction. Here in Georgia, public schools are legally required to identify gifted students and provide them with appropriate instruction. This site aims to help parents understand what their children should be receiving in school under state law, so they can advocate for their children’s education.

While school plays a central role, many gifted children have talents and interests that I believe can’t be fully served in a general school setting. For that reason, I also share information about enrichment activities.

GiftedAtlanta.com began in 2010 as an outgrowth of a Yahoo! group of parents of gifted children in DeKalb County. This online community gave parents a place to ask questions and learn from others’ experiences with issues such as grade skipping, gifted testing, magnet schools, and more. A handful of parents from this group met to discuss how we could be more effective advocates for gifted children and families. We agreed it would be useful to have a website with a repository of information about gifted education within the DeKalb County public schools, making our accumulated knowledge more organized and accessible. In July 2010, I launched a website and blog called Gifted Education in DeKalb County to fill this role.

Once the site was established, I began using its blog to share information about local enrichment programs. I quickly realized that while in-school gifted services are neatly constrained by county borders, enrichment activities aren’t. I expanded the scope of the site to include several more metro Atlanta counties and launched GiftedAtlanta.com in January 2011.

I’m glad you found this site, and I hope it helps you in the amazing journey of raising a gifted child.

– Dori

GiftedAtlanta.com is a solo operation, which I run as a service to the gifted community of greater Atlanta. Content is published at my discretion. I don’t require a subscription, I don’t put anything behind a paywall, and I never accept any payment or other compensation for posting material to this site. I do my best to keep all information accurate and current. If you would like to suggest new content, or if you find broken links or misinformation, please contact me using the form below.