Identify your need and outline your case. Identify where your school is lacking in educational instruction in classroom space, classroom materials, curriculum and teachers. Research the success of gifted programs through data provided by the NAGC and statistics maintained through your state's department of education. Highlight specific pieces of data including how gifted programs have enhanced other classrooms and how gifted children require special instruction to meet their learning needs. For example, according to the NAGC, eight out of 10 gifted students are forced to learn in traditional classrooms while only six out of 10 teachers are qualified to meet a gifted student's needs.
Gain support. Talk to parents and teachers associated with your neighborhood, school and school district. Discuss ways a gifted program may work. Collect strong ideas and form them into examples you can present to the board. Create petitions on the issue of gifted instruction. Ask county residents, current and former teachers at your school, and parents of current and former students to sign petitions in support of gifted programs. Keep all petitions to show to the board.
Present your case. Speak your ideas with clarity, honesty and passion. Present copies of your ideas and support petitions to every board member. Talk about how to make the program affordable and how it can implement easily into other previously established curriculum. Make suggestions for enrollment, such as having potential enrollees take Cognitive Abilities Test or NWEA Achievement Level Tests or outlining specific cases where a child may enroll. Single-subject acceleration, for example, where a child excels in one subject over others may earn him admittance to a gifted program for the purpose of cultivating that singular talent. Include witness testimony -- parents of gifted students and former students who have gone through gifted programs -- as substantiation of your ideas. Keep up the fight until a program is in the works.