Delaware PTA Membership Drives 2015-2016 It’s a brand new school year and thus the start to our many local units’ Membership Drives! With more and more of our communications being sent through electronic channels as a nation, PTA continues to update our procedures to meet the needs of our busy leaders and recognized membership. Delaware PTA, along with National PTA, continues to evolve our PTA efforts too, and the distribution of our annual membership cards is one of our more direct undertakings… And the most difficult logistically! So this year, Delaware PTA is moving to an electronic, centralized process for
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With the start of the new school year just around the corner, National PTA and Univision invite you to participate in the webinar, “Clave al Éxito: Engaging Spanish-Speaking Families.” Join National PTA’s Multicultural Membership Development Manager Armen Alvarez and Univision Communications’ Partnership Engagement Manager Adriana Flores-Ragade to learn more about Clave al Éxito and how to leverage the tool to engage Spanish-speaking families in your school community. The webinar will build on the Hispanic Family Engagement Symposium that took place during the 2015 National PTA Convention in June. Register for one of our four webinar opportunities. Tues., Aug. 18, 1
Read more →Good day all. The Gallaher Elementary School PTA is hosting a meeting for all of the PTAs in the Christina School District. The meeting will take place at the State PTA office Library at 925 Bear Corbitt Rd., Bear on August 20th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Snacks and drinks will be provided. The meeting will be interactive and cover many topics including: Roles of the Executive Board Recruitment / Membership Finances Fundraising Best practices Inter-district collaboration Updates from the National Convention Please RSVP by emailing de_office@pta.org and Mike Williams at mjrewilliams@verizon.net Please include the name and position of
Read more →Hello and happy summer We are currently looking for individuals from the local PTA units to serve on the Delaware PTA Scholarship Committee for the 2015-16 school years. Under the direction of our Scholarship Chair, the committee is responsible for promoting PTA’s scholarships to local high schools, evaluating submissions, and awarding the scholarship. The committee will also work to develop some sort of donor campaign and solicit funders for additional scholarships or for contributions to the existing funds. Most work can be done electronically from your home and time commitment averages about 2-3 hours a month. If this sounds like
Read more →PTA Leaders, We are excited to announce the 2015-2016 National PTA Official Back to School Kit— is completely digital. It includes interactive resources to help your local PTAs kick-start a winning school year. The kit contains the same advice and quick-reference-guides that you have come to expect, that will help PTAs deepen their impact and venture into new territory. The digital kit has many added benefits. The kit is user-friendly and contains more content such as printable and shareable tools, forms, and checklists. The kit is online and available immediately. There is no registration process for the kit this year,
Read more →As parents, advocates, teachers and administrators dig through the annual IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) performance report; everyone knows that Delaware’s needs improvement status means that we are still failing a very large portion of or students with disabilities. The outcome is that these at risk children will continue to fall short of their potential. Worse yet is that while Delaware might be improving, the rate of improvement is so slow, that at best it will be decades before we are even close to this goal. We are simply not keeping up with the rate at which best practices
Read more →June 18, 2015 Action Alerts, Activism, Civil Rights, Testing / Opting Out We, the below undersigned organizations, oppose high-stakes testing because we believe these tests are causing harm to students, to public schools, and to the cause of educational equity. High-stakes standardized tests, rather than reducing the opportunity gap, have been used to rank, sort, label, and punish Black and Latino students, and recent immigrants to this country. We oppose high-stakes tests because: There is no evidence that these tests contribute to the quality of education, have led to improved educational equity in funding or programs, or have helped close
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