Principal and PTA Excited!

I emailed our policy brief and a letter highlighting the importance of multicultural education and the creation of strong relationships between parents and teachers through the PTA to my principal, Head of PTA, and PTA treasurer. All three were very enthusiastic about our recommendations for increasing teacher and family involvement in the PTA, in anticipation that it will lead to increased multicultural awareness in our school community. My principal invited me to propose our increase staff PTA attendance goals to the whole staff at a staff meeting, and it was relatively warmly received. Many teachers had suggestions of how to increase their involvement, such as rotating schedules of participating teachers or changing the time of the PTA meetings. The PTA leaders also invited me to speak about my ideas at the next PTA meeting in May. I am very encouraged by the enthusiastic response, and look forward to working diligently over the summer and through the next school year to ensure that increase PTA participation really does lead to more quality multicultural education programs taking place within my school's classrooms.