Rocky View Action for Gifted Children Foundation

RVAGC is a foundation created by families of gifted children in the Rocky View School District in southern Alberta, Canada. Our purpose is to advocate and promote excellence in gifted education, and to support and fund programming for highly capable children.

We aspire to the standards set by the National Association for Gifted Children. Click here to download a copy of those standards. 

RVAGC advocates for gifted children and will provide supplementary educational materials that schools cannot afford, but which are necessary for these students to meet their distinctive intellectual needs. The Foundation will also support teachers and administrators as they pursue professional development training to better serve highly capable children.

RVAGC is interested in providing additional enrichment opportunities for gifted children in the district, while providing networking, support and information to parents.

RVAGC will work with the school district on behalf of the highly capable children to expand their gifted education offerings from K-12 in the regular classroom, while advocating for eventual congregated settings. We will continue to work with the District to help find the best solutions for all its children.

 What is gifted?

There is no universally accepted definition of “giftedness” and the concepts of intelligence and potential for achievement are fluid and open to interpretation. RVAGC subscribes to the definitions of giftedness accepted by the NAGC (National Association of Gifted Children), who put forth two main definitions:

Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.

A gifted person is someone who shows, or has the potential for showing, an exceptional level of performance in one or more areas of expression.