National PTA’s Take Your Family to School Week (TYFTSW) is Feb. 11-17, 2017. The week is timed to honor our Founder’s Day (Feb. 13) and celebrate PTA’s long legacy of family engagement. Although February seems far away, with the holidays coming up it will be here before you know it! Now is a great time to start planning your Take Your Family to School Week celebrations.
Take Your Family to School Week is a great time to:
- Engage the whole family in reading activities to support children’s literacy skills and help foster a love of reading.
- Empower families with tools to adopt more active, healthy lifestyles.
- Showcase how students use technology in the classroom, help close the homework gap by increasing technology access and digital learning at home and support families in creating safe digital environments through the Smart Talk.
This year, in partnership with Chrysler Pacifica and Google Chromebooks, National PTA will provide 55 local PTAs with $1000 to host a Take Your Family to School Week event. All grant recipients must be in good-standing with their State PTA and be a 501(c)(3) organization. Below are four quick steps to take advantage of this opportunity:
- Visit PTA.org/TYFTSW to download the grant requirements and a practice grant application.
- Use the practice application to design your Take Your Family to School Week event and to save your great ideas.
- The grant application page will automatically refresh if it is left open. Please use the word document to craft your event and then copy and paste when you are ready to submit.
- Complete the grant application by Friday, Nov. 17 to be considered for a $1,000 Take Your Family to School Week Grant.
- Celebrate Take Your Family to School Week with hundreds of other PTAs across the country Feb. 11-17, 2017.
A Take Your Family to School Week toolkit will be made available to all PTAs hosting an event during the week. This digital toolkit will include documents that help you plan, promote and report the success of your event. Be on the lookout for helpful resources around your Winter Holiday Break.
National PTA encourages all PTAs to participate in this opportunity and to begin planning for Take Your Family to School Week!