Transitioning PTAs: When Your
Child Changes Schools

Changing schools can be a time of excitement and anxiety. As children transition to new schools, your PTA can be a resource to parents looking to join a new PTA. Practice the following steps to help your PTA unit transition and keep an accurate count of your PTA membership.

Keep an accurate record of your PTA members. Make note of parents with students transitioning to new schools at the end of the school year.
Contact parents with transitioning students in April. Thank them for their PTA membership and provide transition school contact information for the new PTA membership chair.
Provide PTA membership chairs in your community with a list of transitioning parents. Encourage them to contact the new incoming parents.
Host a special event for new, transitioning PTA parents in August.

Practicing these steps annually will help keep PTA membership strong and help you track membership. Retaining membership is important to ensure a vibrant future for PTA.

- See more at: http://www.ptakit.org/Membership/National-PTA-Diversity-and-Inclusion/Transitioning-PTAs-When-Your-Child-Changes-Schools.aspx#sthash.wNzRHte6.dpuf