Seattle Council PTSA
received the WSPTA’s Outreach Champion award, in addition to being awarded a
National PTA Urban Family Engagement Network Grant earlier this year. As part
of their outreach efforts, they identified and engaged diverse families by
partnering with their school district, community leaders, and representatives
from the diverse communities they wanted to engage. In addition, they
researched their demographic populations and created a nine-week family
training program, utilizing their leadership team to get the word out. As a
result, 24-30 individuals of diverse cultures were trained on family
engagement and the results they saw were immediate. “Before the training
sessions were even complete, some of the parents who formally were afraid to
go into their children’s schools, had made appointments with teachers, talked
to school officials, and addressed long standing issues,” said JMarie
Johnson-Kola, WSPTA outreach director.
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