I'm new to advocacy. My child is in first grade. I'm in a gifted friendly state. A district that is high achieving. And an elementary school ranked in top five of our state. Of course we still have tons of opportunity with gifted education.

I'd like to be more involved. I'm curious how everyone became influential (or even participatory) in advocacy. Whether your influence is at the school level or state level (or in between). I am not well versed in how the public school bureaucracies work but would like to learn how to become more involved!

Thanks!