About Us

What is BVPAGE?

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Welcome to BVPAGE!

​Based in the Blue Valley School District in Overland Park, Kansas, BVPAGE (Blue Valley Parent Advocates for Gifted Education) is a fully volunteer parent group with a mission is to advocate for an enhanced educational experience for gifted students and to provide resources and support for their families and educators. 

While BVPAGE originally began as a support group for Blue Valley to support the families of the 1,500 currently identified gifted students in our school district, we now welcome families anywhere (particularly the KC metro area) whose children are

• suspected to be gifted,

• are in the evaluation process of being identified as gifted, or

• who have already been identified as gifted. 

 

While there are some things about our meetings that are district specific, much of the conversation we have relates to gifted parents everywhere, particularly in our closed Facebook group.  Our goal is to support each other, pass on ideas and success stories, refer parents to resources, and help navigate the crazy world of gifted education for our children. If you have a question or are interested in joining the conversation or keeping up with our meeting and events schedule, you have several options: 

• visit us on Facebook, request to join the group, and answer the membership questions.  Approvals usually take less than 24 hours, and then you'll have access to more than 300 people, one of whom will likely have an answer, or at least be able to relate!

• email the board and one of our members will get back to you. 

• join our mailing list to be kept up to date on our events and meetings.  We try to keep it to one email a month.

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Finally, consider becoming a Friend of BVPAGE to get free access to our events and evening meetings.

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