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New National PTA Learning Series

10 Minutes to PTA the Transformative Way


10 Minutes to PTA the Transformative Way is dedicated to helping leaders make their family engagement more transformative! Tune in to learn from PTA leaders and experts in the field!

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After watching each video, be sure to check out the reflection questions and related resources attached to each episode.

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eLearning

Transformative Family Engagement eLearning Course


Are you a local PTA leader who wants to learn practical strategies to make your family engagement practices more transformative?

Our e-learning course is designed to help PTAs be role models and advocates for more equitable and effective family engagement practices in their schools.

This 25 minute course describes the “Four I's” of transformative family engagement—being inclusive, individualized, integrated, and impactful—and gives you examples of what they look like in action. National PTA log-in required.

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Webinars

Transforming Family-School Partnerships



Transforming Family-School Partnerships with PTA's National Standards

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

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Family Engagement: The Foundation for a Strong School Year

In this Education Week webinar co-hosted by National PTA and AASA, The School Superintendents Association, hear from leaders, practitioners and parents from districts and schools that have used family engagement as a tool to achieve dramatic improvements in student outcomes. Learn about best practices and programs that promote positive family-school partnerships and support student success.

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Transformative Family Engagement



Family Engagement in a Virtual World

This webinar will gives your PTA tips to engaging and connecting your community through virtual programming!

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Transforming Events with the Four 'I's of Family Engagement

This webinar will help your PTA take its events to the next level!

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Advocating for School Funding with an Equity Lens

What do families know about school funding? What areas do they feel are adequately or inadequately funded? And what are the implications of this for PTA leaders’ work advocating for all children? National PTA partnered with council PTAs and talked with more than 150 parents to answer these questions and more. Watch now for a presentation of our findings and to hear directly from PTA leaders, about their experiences advocating on issues related to school funding.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion



Tools to Turn Your Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into Action

Start your DEI journey in three steps! First, complete the diversity profile which asks you to reflect on who in your community is represented in the PTA and who is missing. Second, reach out and start talking with your community. The facilitator’s guide empowers leaders to start conversations with people who they have struggled to engage. Third, use the DEI action plan template to develop steps to become more inclusive.

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