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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
Congrats to PTO Today Teacher Wish List Grant Winners
Have you signed up your school for Teacher Wish List yet? What are you waiting for? Order a free kit to get started or visit the Teacher Wish List site.
My Tip of the Week: Fall Carnival Ideas
Recently a lot of people have been searching ptotoday.com for information on carnivals and fall fairs. A fall carnival is a great event to create excitement among kids. It's also a terrific way to get parents involved and create camaraderie, since you'll need a lot of volunteers but the jobs are mostly fun.
My Tip of the Week: 3 Ways To Add Fun to Your PTO or PTA
Quick tip this week based on my belief that if your parent group isn't fun, you are going to struggle mightily to get lots of parents and families connected.
My Tip of the Week: Make New Parents Feel Welcome
If you're a PTO leader, then you probably know most of the key players at your school -- the principal, your fellow officers, the teachers, the most-involved parents. For you, attending events and meetings is a comfortable thing.
Featured Q: What Happens When Nobody Volunteers for Board Positions?
Most groups, at one time or another, have positions they have trouble filling at the end of the school year. What has worked for your PTO or PTA for filling these empty positions?
My Tip of the Week: Help One of Your Friends
Do you know another parent group leader (or someone starting to get into this crazy stuff, or thinking about it) who could benefit from ptotoday.com or from these email newsletters?
My Tip of the Week: Teacher Appreciation Ideas
I have three links for you this week. If you have a fellow leader working on teacher appreciation, this would be a great email to forward.
A Low-Key Family Event = Way to Recruit Volunteers
Word is that families love the low-key aspect of Family Movie Nights. A table set up with volunteer sign-up sheets near the snacks inspires parents to contribute to future events. Parents are much more likely to sign up for a shift when they feel like part of the school community and after they had a good time a school family event.Leaders also told me that finding a volunteer to run a Family Movie Night is easier than most because you can hand them a kit with:
My Tip of the Week: Create a Signature Event
Believe it or not, now is the right time to do some assessing of your PTO or PTA. Sure, rest. You've earned it. But also try to find some time (even just trading emails) with your fellow leaders to think about the big picture of your group before you get back into the craziness of a new year.
My Tip of the Week: Use Email for Your PTO or PTA
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about Facebook and Twitter for PTOs and PTAs. While they're both fine, I actually think email remains the current best communication tool for parent groups.
Five (or Six) Months Left in the School Year
Happy New Year to all our PTO, PTA, HSA friends! Did you have a chance to re-charge over your holiday break? Are you ready to do great things in 2011? Flipping over the calendar in a new year is always energizing for me -- fresh possibilities, new ideas, a clean slate. But where school is concerned, it's also a bit daunting. Only 6 more months of school (in some of your cases, 5). Gulp. So much to accomplish on the PTO front. That's where resolutions or goals come in! Just to write them out lends clarity, purpose and a new sense of calm.

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