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Reading Night Touchdown
Room Parent Recruitment
6 Tips To Orient Your New PTO Officers
Clothes Swap for Families in Need
Themed Staff Lunches Every Month
Food Drive: "Can the Principal"
6 New Ways To Use Your Playground
Teacher Appreciation Week Appreciation Every Day
Parent Group Business Cards With Passive Fundraisers
Q&A: Helping Parents Help Schools
Soon after her children started going to Van Bokkelen Elementary in Severn, Md., Rhonda Ulmer learned that the school might be taken over by the state because of poor academic performance. In 2004, when Ulmer was PTA president, she formed the Van Bokkelen Family Network to connect parents with resources to help stabilize their families, such as food assistance and GED classes. In the next few years, students’ test scores and parent involvement at Van Bokkelen improved and the school was taken off the takeover list.
Date Book: Family Literacy Day
Parents play a key role in helping children learn to read and encouraging them to keep reading. PTOs can help by holding family literacy events and providing parents with helpful tools and information. Consider observing Family Literacy Day on Nov. 1.
My Tip of the Week: Help Less Fortunate Families at Your School
Parent Groups in the News Round-up 2/18/11
As we close out the week of Valentine's day there's a lot to love in the world of parent group news:
Parent Groups in the News Round-up 5/13/11
It's so refreshing to scan the recent parent group news and see so many articles about schools taking on gardening projects. In general, we are seeing a trend of parent groups taking a more active role in green school initiatives. This week's article round-up speaks to the benefits of school gardens:
My Tip of the Week: Working With "Bad" Volunteers
If you volunteer at school long enough, I guarantee that you'll run into volunteers who don't do a good job. It's not if but when, and how you deal with those volunteers can affect the culture and success of your group for years. (Note: Have you experienced this already? Share your "bad volunteer" stories on the message boards.)
My Tip of the Week: Enjoy the Rest -- You Deserve It
No tip this week. Fourth of July week should be the apex of PTO and PTA relaxation. One year done. Another year still over the horizon. Enjoy!
Honor Roll: Tammy Duncan Makes School a More Beautiful Place
Tammy Duncan, chairwoman of the landscaping committee at the East Aiken School of the Arts in Aiken, S.C., worked to turn a weedy piece of school property into a garden everyone could enjoy.
My Tip of the Week: Find Your Next Crop of Leaders
Funny Video helps Schools in Need
The neat (no pun intended) thing is that by sharing this video you’ll be helping schools that are struggling financially get the cleaning supplies they need. Bounty is going to make a one-time donation of $200,000 worth of paper towels (retail value) to schools in need if they get 2,000,000 views by Jan. 31st (with distribution help by PTO Today).
An Amazing Hay Maze
A Florida PTO found a creative way to raise money and reinforce math skills at the same time.

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