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My Tip of the Week: Protect Your Funds With a Quick Audit
While you're winding down this year and planning for next, here's a key addition for your to do list: Audit your books.
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: 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!
My Tip of the Week: Communicate with Parents Easily
Is your group extensively using email yet? If not, you simply have to make it part of your 2011-12 plans. Now's the time to set the stage.
My Tip of the Week: Maximize Your School's Hunger Fighting Efforts
If your parent group or school (or even the student council or National Honor Society at your school) does any sort of hunger-fighting work, you're going to love the fall 2011 offerings from Schools Fight Hunger.
My Tip of the Week: How Many Fundraisers Should Your Group Run This Year?
We get this question a lot, and my answer is, probably fewer than you typically run.
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.
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.
Teachers Surprise Families With Flash Mob
During a break in the action at a faculty basketball game, teachers at Grafton (Mass.) Elementary suddenly started dancing.
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.
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.
My Tip of the Week: Share Great Ideas with Volunteers
A bit of a self-serving tip this week, but I still think it's a pretty good one. Do you get ideas, helpful tools or even a bit of inspiration from PTO Today and ptotoday.com? I hope so.
My Tip of the Week: The Key Traits of Successful PTO Leaders
One of my favorite leadership maxims is also a powerful tip for growing your PTO or PTA.
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: Welcome All New Volunteers
Three facts: First, this is about the busiest time of year for PTO and PTA leaders; second, this is the time of year when new parents first express interest in helping out at the school; and third, it takes work and patience (which are in short supply) to get a new volunteer started.
An Amazing Hay Maze
A Florida PTO found a creative way to raise money and reinforce math skills at the same time.
Enter Our Fun Phrase Contest to Win
The winning fun phrase will be printed on t-shirts that will be used as prizes at PTO Today Expos and beyond. The winner will be featured in a photograph wearing the winning t-shirt (with up to 4 fellow parent group volunteers) in an upcoming issue of PTO Today magazine. Also, you and 11 of your closest PTO or PTA peeps receive a free t-shirt. AND everyone who enters gets free admission to your closest PTO Today Expo!
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.
My Tip of the Week: Put Thank-Yous at the Top of Your To Dos
While many groups thrive at organized volunteer appreciation and teacher appreciation, they often fall short on the more basic and more important everyday thank-yous that can make a huge difference in long-term engagement.

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