Texas PTA's Outstanding Program Engagement Award

PTA’s mission is to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.

The Texas PTA Outstanding Program Engagement Award recognizes Local PTAs that provide a variety of quality programs throughout the school year, fostering family engagement, student growth, and strong school community partnerships. This award celebrates PTAs that go beyond a single initiative. They are offering multiple opportunities for families to connect, advocate, learn, and thrive together.

Local and Council PTAs that have offered a minimum of 3 programs during the current school year will receive a digital badge. One Local and Council PTA will be selected as the Outstanding Program Engagement Award winners and will be recognized at LAUNCH.

This award application will be open from March 1 through May 15th.

How to Apply

Throughout the application, please be prepared to provide the following information.

• Your PTA and school information
  • including your PTA’s Texas PTA ID number
  • Your PTA must be in Good Standing
• A summary of all programs conducted this school year
  • including dates
• Indicate the program content origin
  • Note if it is a program from Texas PTA, National PTA, locally created, or from another source
• Examples of your impact
  • Describe one program that had the greatest impact and why
• Supporting Materials
  • Upload marketing pieces, photos, or other materials that showcase your work and bring your story to life.

Tips for a Strong Application

• Be specific - Describe programs clearly and demonstrate your PTA’s understanding of your community’s unique needs. PTAs should include a variety of programming each year. Some examples could include Texas PTA’s Connect programs, Healthy Lifestyles, Environmental, National PTA’s Reflections program, National PTA's School of Excellence program, or locally curated content tailored to meet the needs of your community.
• Tell your story - Include short anecdotes or quotes that illustrate your PTA’s impact and highlight any collaboration with students, families, teachers, and administrators.
• Use numbers - Attendance, survey percentages, volunteer growth, and describe how your programs reflect diverse voices and perspectives.
• Identify Reason - Provide clear explanations of how and why your PTA made programming decisions.

Scoring

Judges will determine outstanding PTA program engagement levels by total rubric points. PTAs with the strongest evidence across a variety of programs, their sources, family and community engagement, and program quality and impact will score highest.

• Digital Badge
  Provided to PTAs that offer a minimum of 3 programs during the current school year
  
  
• Bronze Level
  Reflects initial steps toward alignment, engagement, and connection in their alignment, outreach, standard approaches, and basic documentation. PTA implements 3 programs that provide opportunities for family involvement and student growth. 
  
  
• Silver Level
  Shows solid alignment with PTA goals, moderate engagement, some creativity, adequate promotion, evidence of positive impact, and sufficient documentation. PTA implements 4-5 programs from at least two different categories of program content origin.
  
  
• Gold Level
  Demonstrates outstanding alignment with PTA initiatives, strong family and community engagement, creative programming, broad promotion, measurable impact, and thorough documentation. PTA implements 6 or more programs, representing a strong mix of program content origins.

Questions?

Texas PTA is here to support you. If your PTA has questions about the award or the application process, reach out to the Programs team at programs@txpta.org.

Interested in Growing Your School's Impact?

The Texas PTA Family & Student Engagement Impact Award recognizes PTAs that go above and beyond to strengthen family and student engagement. These PTAs foster meaningful connections, remove barriers to participation, and ensure their work is mission-driven and accessible in membership, leadership, program content, advocacy, training, partnerships, and communications.

Additional Opportunities

Since the earliest days, Texas PTA leaders and members have sought to fulfill our mission to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. As such, Texas PTA is proud to offer you the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the advocacy efforts of Local PTAs, Council PTAs, and Students through the prestigious Advocacy Impact Awards.

Take a look! You might find that you are already making a huge impact on your campus and beyond!