About the Parent Teacher Association

"Today more than ever, PTA is dedicated to the issues that parents, teachers, and children face in their daily lives. Because of your energy, your ideas, your dedication and, most of all, your voice, we create a force that can’t be ignored, because we speak for every child with one voice."

What Your National PTA Is Doing For You

• Implementing an identity campaign to unify and strengthen PTA’s position as a leader in parent/family involvement and child advocacy in America
  
• Introducing a new parent involvement school certification program to recognize the involvement of parents and families in education and to showcase schools that are implementing the highest standards of parent involvement in the nation
  
• Publishing the Respecting Differences Resource Guide to provide PTAs with resources, program ideas, and support for their efforts to increase tolerance and diversity
  
• Offering free "How to Help Your Child Succeed" workshops across the country to teach parents practical tips to support their children’s success
  
• Distributing a new video for PTAs to encourage involvement, recruit, and train volunteers and engage partner organizations in the Reflections Program, an arts recognition and achievement program for students
  
• Discussing topics such as parent involvement, commercialism, school choice, education equity, diversity, and bullying in the media and other public forums
  
• Giving real-life solutions to keeping kids off drugs through resources such as Keeping Your Kids Drug-Free: A How-to Guide for Parents and Caregivers, which was endorsed by National PTA and offers advice on how parents can have important conversations with children about drugs
  
• Distributing free electronic newsletters, National PTA Weekly and This Week in Washington, to provide relevant information on topics that are important to PTA members and others who advocate on behalf of children
  
• Publishing Our Children magazine six times a year to help PTAs lead their organizations successfully and to give parents advice from experts on topics of children’s health, education, and welfare
  
• Creating and disseminating through Our Children magazine Programs to Go, a new program-planning tool to help PTAs create and plan programs of relevance to all communities
  
• Sharing as a special Our Children pullout Our Children Newsletter, for PTAs to photocopy, personalize with their PTA and contact information, and distribute as they choose
  
• Providing a PTA website with new features including enhanced search capabilities, interactive tools, and additional information on children’s issues, plus an exclusive members’ site
  
• Responding to national issues; for instance, immediately following the events of 9-11,National PTA provided the Helping Children Cope with Tragedy website, wrote and distributed The Resiliency of the Human Spirit booklet, conceptualized and promoted a National Wreath of Remembrance Day, and supported the Counting on Kids program to help raise funds for victims and their families
  
• Teaming with corporate sponsors to provide to PTA members resources such as Our PTA News and Brain Power Tips for Kids

Providing a toll-free customer service phone number—(800) 307-4PTA (4782)—and a customer service e-mail address, info@pta.org

"The desire to make a difference in the lives of children drives all of us."
—National PTA President Shirley Igo

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Join the PTA

Join the PTA

When you join the Matsunaga PTA, you are automatically a member of your state PTA and the National PTA. As a member of the Matsunaga PTA, you will have the opportunity to:

• learn about important issues affecting children in your community
• offer your experience and expertise in developing programs and projects that benefit children
• be a voice for children by communicating with local and state decision makers
• obtain resources and other materials on a wide variety of concerns facing today's parents and families
• grow personally through leadership development training
• support school activities that strengthen the family-school-community partnership
• network with other individuals who share your same concerns

You will quickly discover that the PTA continually strives to improve the education, health, safety, and general well-being of all children.

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Last modified: August 2007