An update to the PTD that went out in October.
PTA & Principal Elementary — November 20th at the ISD from 10-12
PTA & Principal Secondary — November 13th at the ISD from 8:30-9:15 (this is the money portion and doesn’t actually involve you principal — please make sure if you can not attend someone from your board does)
January 6th from 10-12, there will be round table discussion with all the middles at one table and all the high schools at the other. Please come to the session with 2 things PTA does a great job partnering with your school and 2 things you wished they did.
Council Coming to You: Thank you for opening your meetings to a visit from Council representative if we have not been there yet, we are on the way. Hopefully it has been as valuable to you as it has to us. Thanks, you are all doing great things.
Remember to take a few minutes to complete the Bylaws Survey (is there a rule that you think is ridiculous, now is your time to speak up!!). The link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/
PTA Best Practices — Meeting TidBits:
- Make sure when guests come to your meeting, whether it is the President of the US, your principal, committee chair, you get the point — that you take the time to introduce them.
- This even goes if you are having a discussion within your board and people might not know of a special expertise that a person on the board has on the topic.
- As a board do you know how line items of your budget are spent. Take the time to invite program chairs to your meetings as they kick off their work. Have them share, what they are doing and how they are using the resources for the project
- Help yourself out, make sure the top of your minutes states the date, time, location, attendees and quorum present.
- Do your committee chairs know the goals of your PTA?
- Does your standing rules reflected what you do? Check them out compared to how you conduct business.
If you need help or clarification, please let your VP or anyone on the board know.