PTA Leaders and Members,
Welcome back! I hope you are as excited as I am to be
starting the 2018-19 PTA year. I hope you had a relaxing summer full of fun and
family activities. I know you have also been busy planning your PTA programs
and events for this year…and Ohio PTA has been doing the same. Here are some of the highlights…
·
Welcomed our new staff Laurie Mottice and Linda
Freemanwalker
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Revised the Standards of Affiliation (SOA)- new simplified checklist
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Updated, easier to navigate website
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New membership awards program
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New format for The Voice
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New Ohio PTA Grants for you, our local PTAs
I’d love to know what you think of
these changes especially The Voice
and the website. We want our resources to be timely and useful and your
feedback will help us do that.
As you may know, Ohio PTA won a
National PTA Family Engagement Grant last spring. The grant is to promote
transformative family engagement throughout our state. Family engagement is connecting families,
schools and the community to work together to positively impact student
outcomes. What is transformative
family engagement? It is family engagement practices that reach every family
and make it possible for every family to change their child’s life for the
better. It really is the heart of our mission “Making every child’s potential a
reality.” So, I invite you to learn more at ohiopta.org
and on the Ohio PTA Membership Blog. Think about what you can do or are doing
as a PTA to be inclusive, to develop parents’ knowledge of school academic
goals, to build relationships to a new building or grade level or help staff
and families to truly communicate with each other. Please tell us about your family engagement
successes- either on the new SOA checklist or email me at president@ohiopta.org.
Just as families and staff need to learn
from one other, we can do more if we share our experiences and resources.
Have a great year and thank you for
being part of PTA!
Susan
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