Celebrate Success

Step 3: Celebrate Success

PTA’s process for building successful partnerships is grounded in the National Standards for Family-School Partnerships and consists of three basic steps. The third step is celebrating success as your school sees increased involvement and its impact.

Your successes—big and small—are your PTA’s best form of advertisement. Publish stories in school and district newsletters, send press releases to local media, and post pictures and outcomes online to give stakeholders real-life proof of involvement’s power to improve schools and benefit students. Success stories will show school leaders and current and potential members, donors, and partnering organizations why their involvement and collaboration is critical to student success.

The more you promote your successes, the more people will want to get involved—and the more your children will succeed!

Use the PTA Report to the Community (see template below) to help get the word out.

Background

The Power of Partnerships: A Guide to PTA's Building Successful Partnerships Process
The three-step process to building successful family-school partnerships.

El Poder de las Asociaciones
Una guía al proceso de edificación de asociaciones exitosas de la PTA—en Español (The Power of Partnerships booklet in Spanish)

Additional Resources

PTA Report to the Community Instructions
Instructions on how to use the Report to the Community to share family-school-community partnership successes.

PTA Report to the Community Template
A template for describing partnership successes and sharing with the community.

Hearst Awards
National recognition and monetary awards for PTA's efforts to build family-school partnerships.