June 15, 2015
Take Your PTA Leadership to the Next Level
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National PTA e-learning offers interactive and engaging courses to help you be a better leader! Discover PTA’s history, structure, programs and the issues PTA advocates for with our PTA Basics course.
National PTA e-learning offers interactive and engaging courses to help you be a better leader! Discover PTA’s history, structure, programs and the issues PTA advocates for with our PTA Basics course.To learn more about the individual roles and responsibilities of local PTA unit leaders, check out our courses on local unit president, local unit secretary and local unit treasurer. Or, if you’re interested in learning about the basic governance structures behind most PTA units, then the Board Basics course is the right one for you.
Check out our e-learning courses today!
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Let's Read All Summer Long!
Visit PTAReadingChallenge.org for info on how you can participate in the month-long challenge! You'll also find info on prizes, family videos showing the magic of reading together and tools to help you promote the challenge to your local PTA units and members.
You can also encourage local units to help us reach our goal!! Show your support for the PTA Family Reading Challenge! Sign up for our Thunderclap.
The Secrets I Still Want My Teen to Learn
In a few days, my daughter will be finishing middle school. It’s a big step, for her and me.
When she was younger, I knew I wanted to teach her the secrets to life. How to catch a ball by squeezing onto it, rather than letting it slip through her tiny hands. How to eat an Oreo three different ways. How to play ping-pong.
But now I also want her to know how to be happy, how to be a good person, how to live a life she can be proud of. I want her to know about the little things and the big things; I never want her to say, “If only I’d known … .” Read More
Technology and Kids: Seven Ways to Unplug
While interaction with online educational games and apps can be a learning experience for our kids, the percentage of young children who are trading in picture books for LED screens has crept up to astonishing levels.
A recent report by Common Sense Media found that over one-third (38%) of 0 to 8-year-olds studied had used a smart phone, mp3 player, video iPod, iPad or a similar tablet—and 11% of children used these technological trinkets on a daily basis. Read More
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