Encourage principals, parents, and teachers to read the summary, and then set up discussion sessions that include members of all three of these groups. Build a Support Team. Discuss the proposal with your peers and others who might be affected. Have team members read and re-read the proposal until it is nothing short of a masterpiece. Find something in the district guidelines or policies that will support what you want to do.
Every school district has mission statements or policies that mention meeting individual needs.
Explain how the program you are proposing will help the overall district get where it wants to go faster, easier and perhaps cheaper. The gifted specialists already have a good deal of the teaching skills and thinking skills technology that that the district may be paying high consultant fees to obtain. Show how the change will make the district look good and the schools more reputable. Copy some Type III's from various sources, especially those that appeared as newspaper articles. Emphasize that Our Schools could be gaining this kind of recognition for excellence.