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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
My Tip of the Week: Make Your Principal a Hero
If you have a great principal who supports your efforts, take every chance you get to let your whole school community know that. In your newsletter, at your events, even in personal conversations, publicize your principal's support and how much your group appreciates that support. It's well worth it.
My Tip of the Week: Start Recruiting New Officers Now
Have you begun to think about elections yet? It may seem early, but now is the time to start recruiting officers for next year.
5 Additions To Spice Up Your Newsletter
Give your weekly or monthly communications home a boost with some fun new items.
These 6th Graders Make a Difference
Talk about an amazing rate of return! The Merrill Middle School PTA in Des Moines, Iowa, gave 210 6th graders $1 each, and in just 32 days, the students had used the seed money to raise an additional $8,151.
My Tip of the Week: Spring Planning Leads to Fall Success
What can you do now that will have your group better prepared for August and September?
Earth Day Ideas
Does your parent group have anything planned for Earth Day? If not, think about borrowing one of these great ideas.
Principal Gets Bieber Fever
Nolensville (Tenn.) Elementary principal Ryan Harris told students he’d wear the school’s cardinal mascot costume if they raised $14,000 in the PTO fun run.
The ABCs of PTOs
You’re familiar with PTAs, PTOs, HSAs, and PTSAs, but some parent groups go for far more unique acronyms when deciding on a name.
My Tip of the Week: Make Just One Change
2012 Parent Group of the Year Search
It’s not too early to start thinking about PTO Today’s 2012 Parent Group of the Year search.
My Tip of the Week: Create Your Own Parent Leader Network
Get out and smell the coffee. That's my tip for this week. I wrote a column for PTO Today magazine with this title a couple of years ago, and it remains one of my favorite simple but underused ideas.

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