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PTA Helps Parent Teacher Groups Succeed

Since 1909 PTA has been sharing and perfecting best practices state-wide, building vibrant support networks, writing training curricula and manuals, creating programs, facilitating networking, and working to make every child’s potential a reality.

Over 2900 PTAs in Texas already know that being a PTA helps them excel. Don’t let your parent teacher group go it alone. Encourage them to be a PTA!

Get an “A” in Economics

PTAs get free websites. Easy and free, every PTA in Texas has the opportunity to get a fantastic, customizable website designed specifically for a volunteer to administer. Also free: online dues processing, broadcast e-mail tools, online parenting forums, and newsletters, a great calendar tool, and more.

PTAs are 501(c)(3) organizations. Save yourselves the expense and hassle of filing for non-profit/tax exempt status with the IRS and the State of Texas. Each and every local PTA is covered under Texas PTA’s group exemption.

PTAs get free art and parent education programs. Texas PTA makes quality programs easy. PTA arts programs generate 85,000 pieces of student art every year in Teas. We also present over 200 top-quality on-campus parent education workshops on hot topics like bullying, internet safety, and suicide prevention annually. These are terrific programs that help parent teacher groups do more without working harder.

Get an “A” in Accounting

PTAs have oversight via bylaws, standing rules, and annual audits.
To be a PTA, bylaws and standing rules must be on file and according to specified minimums. One of the most important standing requirements is that each PTA must undergo an annual audit. Rules about where funds are held, when financials must be reviewed, and other risky activities ensure that, if it’s a PTA, it’s going to be OK.

PTAs offer leadership and officer training. PTA wrote the book on best practices for parent teacher groups. It’s called the Texas PTA Handbook. We also wrote a manual for each officer and chairman position. All incoming presidents and treasurers are trained in best practices and also receive leadership training.

Get an “A” in Government

PTAs are greater than the sum of their parts.
In addition to all that we do to help each school’s PTA succeed, Texas PTA gives parent teacher groups a voice at the Capitol. This year issues like air quality inside school buses, child passenger restraint laws, smoking, vouchers, and nutrition are priorities. Historically, PTA championed such issues as polio vaccines, birth certificates, and healthy school lunches. If it’s important for kids, it’s important to the PTA.

PTAs encourage parent involvement.
Parental involvement isn’t just good for your students and your school, it’s the law. According to the No Child Left Behind Act, all Title One schools are required to, “build the school’s and their parents’ capacity for strong parent involvement…” The PTA is, and always has been, all about parent involvement.

Get an “A” in Group Work

PTAs will save the day.
PTA’s support network includes 90 Councils, 18 Areas, 6 Regions, a State Board, and a full-time professional staff. PTAs can count on getting the assistance they need when they need it.

PTAs network.
The largest gathering of parent teacher group volunteers anywhere happens every year at the Texas PTA Summer Leadership Seminar in Austin. Additionally, hundreds of other statewide and regional events and online tools help your volunteer leaders share their very best ideas.

PTA members are taking a cue from the younger generation by using technology to get connected, share ideas, network, and express themselves, and as a result, are better able to serve the families in their communities. Accounting software, Websites, e-mail, and online forums are just the start. Wikis, language translation software, text and video blogs, and pod-casting are all technologies of interest to a PTA.

Imagine a world where your child’s lesson plan is not just sent home with them in a folder, but easily accessible from your computer desktop, or even from your cellular phone. Technology that makes sense for the corporate world has a natural home in the realm of PTAs, a group that has always concerned itself with the connection between family and home.

The State-Level PTA organization is bringing this future even closer this summer by launching the Texas PTA Network. Essentially a multi-purpose MySpace-style customizable online community for PTAs to use, this system offers a free web-site, complete with calendars, principle’s pages, and unlimited pages, picture and video uploading and more, all completely free to every PTA in Texas. In the near-future these sites will also convert themselves to Spanish at the touch of a button, send out meeting announcements via text-message, and include comprehensive online dues payment processing and accounting modules.

A typical Website requires the purchase of an IP address, a hosting service, and enough technical and design expertise to develop a good site. The pre-configured, completely free and very easily customized Texas PTA Network bypasses these hurdles. “Many PTAs already have Websites, but none has a system that’s as powerful or easy to use as this. For PTAs that do not currently have the means or ability to communicate via the web, this will be an even greater benefit,” says PTA Executive Director Kyle Ward.

By putting all PTAs in Texas on the same network, new opportunities to enhance member benefits, serve children, and connect parents become available. If, for example, a PTA in Tyler becomes aware of a grant program that is especially apropos to PTAs, they can post that information in the online forum under “Grants.” This will also help connect the various levels of PTA including Local PTAs, Texas State PTA, and the three levels in between.

“The more PTAs use technology to cut-down on the expense and labor of running their organization, the better they can serve the families in their communities,” says Amber Fulton, Membership Chairman of the Texas PTA. “We launched the Texas PTA Network as a response to demand from our members. Not everyone is going to be a heavy-user of these sites, but for those that are, we’re ready.”

The corporate world has taken notice. Hewlett Packard, AT&T, Office Depot, and Aflac are all considering sponsoring the Texas PTA Network. “We think this is going to be a great tool to help PTAs be even more effective in their communities, and we’re excited to be a part of it,” says Janyne Vida Mosller, Parent Involvement Director for Office Depot.

Texas PTA has always been ahead of the curve. They were one of the first state PTAs to start using a database to track membership. PTA–specific accounting software has been available to PTAs in Texas for years via their state organization, another first for a state PTA. The Texas PTA message board is already a very popular area on the Texas PTA web-site. The PTA Network will be another first for a state PTA. If successful, one could expect to see this type of benefit offered to PTAs across the country.