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Take Your Family to School Week

Celebrating Family Engagement

National PTA’s Take Your Family to School Week, celebrated Feb. 17–21, 2025, is designed to provide families with an opportunity to get more involved in their child’s education and strengthen their partnerships with teachers and administrators. The timing of the week honors the day PTA was founded, Feb. 17, 1897.

Family Engagement Supports Student Success

Research shows that family engagement supports student success. Students with involved parents are more likely to earn higher grades and pass their classes, attend school regularly, have better social skills and go on to post secondary education.

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For over 128 years, National PTA has been encouraging families to get more involved in their child’s education.

Help us celebrate PTA’s long legacy of family engagement during National PTA's Take Your Family to School Week by strengthening family-school partnerships using PTA's National Standards.

Eight Ways to Celebrate

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Register for the continuation of our webinar series

Explore PTA’s six National Standards through panel discussions with leading practitioners, researchers and policymakers who are improving family-school partnerships so all children can reach their full potential.

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Watch and Share Our Previous Webinars

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Enhance PTA’s inclusion of historically underrepresented children and families

Access our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Multicultural Reference Guide to connect your PTA to educational organizations and resources to further learning around different people and cultures in your community.

Check out our newest DEI resource to learn about PTAs leading the way in diversity, equity and inclusion:

PTAs Leading the Way in Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Las PTA lideran el camino de la diversidad, la equidad y la inclusión

Multicultural Reference Guide

Guía de referencia multicultural

3.

Become a role model and advocate for transformative family engagement

Take our 25-minute Transformative Family Engagement eLearning Course about the “Four I's” of transformative family engagement—being inclusive, individualized, integrated and impactful.

Learn more

4.

Plan a National PTA program

Choose from over six different programs to provide engaging, educational and fun opportunities that inspire, recognize and impact all students and their families.

Learn more

5.

Tune in to our Notes from the Backpack podcast

Tune in to our Notes from the Backpack podcast for tips and information on:

Preparing Educators to Engage Families

Leading Alongside Transgender Youth

Playground Politics: How Kids Make Friends

And many more!

6.

Speak up for the health and wellbeing of all children

Access our advocacy toolkit for everything from writing your legislators to scheduling Capitol Hill visits—even to reach out to the media.

Advocacy Toolkit

Learn how to advocate and take action in your community and on Capitol Hill by registering for our 2025 National PTA Virtual Legislative Conference.

7.

Host a community listening session

Discover how to provide families in your community with the opportunity to express their opinions, share ideas and tell their stories through our Facilitating Community Listening Sessions Guide: