Any suggestion on how to get parents more involved. Hi, Our school does open house in September. The first PTA meeting is before going to open house. We don't tell this to the parents because you are right, they won't come. Our principal gets desserts, the expensive ones, and shows a slide show of all the things our students did last year with parent involvement.
Parents get to see the enjoyment students have sharing in activities with their own parents.
They also are impressed by the desserts and the 20 minute meeting. They get to meet their child's teacher and the whole faculty. A good suggestion that many parents have given me, have some open floor meetings where minutes aren't read and monies aren't listed, but teachers and parents talk about the problems of the students, school and community and come up with suggestions on how to improve each situation. Parents have lots of good ideas about raising money and getting people to help, they just have to feel that their input is important, not listen to the PTA talk the whole meeting. Business should only take 20 minutes, not 1 hour.