What We Heard: Insights from the 2025 Member Needs Assessment

At NAGC, we are committed to ensuring that our members feel supported, valued, and equipped with the tools they need to advocate for and serve gifted learners. Each year, we conduct a Member Needs Assessment to better understand what’s working well and where we can improve. Your feedback helps shape our priorities, and we’re excited to share some key takeaways from this year’s results.

What You Value Most

We appreciated hearing the ways that you value your membership with NAGC. Many of you deeply appreciate the research, networking opportunities, and professional learning that come with your membership and we’re glad to hear that affirmed. Our annual convention remains a highlight, providing valuable connections and learning experiences. We also heard that advocacy continues to be a major reason why you, our members, join and renew.

For the third year in a row, our publications, Teaching for High Potential, Parenting for High Potential, and Gifted Child Quarterly are highlights within our publications and you said they provide value and needed resources to the work that you’re doing. When it comes to the programs that you value most. It’s no surprise that our Annual Convention is at the top of the list providing necessary resources and practical takeaways.

The chart above illustrates member responses regarding their connection with NAGC. We’re thrilled to see such positive feedback on our contributions to gifted education. It’s also encouraging to see increases in members’ personal connection to NAGC and their awareness of the benefits we offer—both of which improved compared to last year’s results.

Where We Can Improve

While many members find great value in NAGC, we also heard that some feel membership benefits could be more tangible and accessible year-round. In the same vein, some of you shared that you weren’t fully aware of all the benefits available to you or find it difficult to access resources.

While NAGC continues to work on advancing policies that support gifted learners, some of your shared you would like us to be more proactive in securing funding and influencing legislation.

Many of you emphasized the importance of ensuring diverse voices are represented across our programming, leadership, and professional development. There’s a call for NAGC to highlight underrepresented populations of gifted learners and provide more culturally responsive resources. Additionally, some members feel that decisions are being made by a small group and want clearer opportunities to get involved in leadership.

What’s Next?

As mentioned, your feedback is important to us and helps guide and reinforce priorities we’ve already been considering. It allows us to prioritize things as well. In the last couple of years, you’ve shared how our Engage platform is hard to use, inconvenient, or that you haven’t even logged on before. This feedback was heard, and we are so excited to announce that on March 25 we launched our new Engage online community on a new platform!

Just since we launched at the end of March 2025, we’ve seen a 300% increase in engagement on the Engage Roundtable. Some of that is just the excitement around the platform, but it also shows the ease of use and desire to connect with other members of our community. Our customer support team has also received minimal questions on how to use the platform, which we take as a sign of how user-friendly the platform is.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can do so through our website but navigating to NAGC.org and selecting “NAGC Engage” on the top right or going to this link. Check out the Roundtable to connect with peers and colleagues from across the country and world.

We’re committed to listening—and while change may take time, we’re dedicated to building the inclusive, robust community you want to see for gifted educators everywhere.

Thank you!

We appreciate everyone who took the time to share their thoughts in this year’s survey. Your input is invaluable, and we are committed to enhancing your membership experience by strengthening advocacy, improving access to resources, and fostering a more connected community.

Thank you for being a part of NAGC—we’re listening, and we’re excited to grow together!

Meet our drawing giveaway recipients!

As a small thank you for taking part in this survey, we offered some giveaways to some folks that shared their feedback on this form. Thank you to all those that shared their experience of NAGC and your membership with us. A shoutout to those below who were randomly selected to win one of our giveaways.

NAGC25 Complimentary Registration Recipient, Dr. Marites Melad, Science 8 TAG Teacher at Prince George's County Public School (PGCPS)

I completed the NAGC survey to provide valuable feedback on my experiences and insights regarding gifted education. Participating in the survey allows me to contribute to the ongoing improvement of programs and resources for gifted students and educators. At the upcoming NAGC convention in Pittsburgh, I look forward to attending workshops that focus on innovative teaching strategies and the latest research in gifted education. I also aim to connect with other educators and professionals to share ideas and best practices. Additionally, I plan to explore the exhibits for new materials and hear from keynote speakers who will inspire us with their expertise in nurturing giftedness in education.

Congratulations to our other drawing recipients!

Dee Langsenkamp, Amanda Khan, Jessica Feth, Emily Hodson, Seda Sakar, Jessa Luckey Goudelock, Susan Johnsen, Jody Hess, and Julie Delgado