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Texas PTA's Family & Student Engagement Impact 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 Family & Student Engagement Impact Award honors PTAs that go above and beyond to create meaningful connections and strengthen engagement among families and students. These PTAs build strong connections and break down barriers to participation through the 4 I’s of transformative engagement: inclusive, individualized, integrated, and impactful. Their efforts remain mission-driven across membership, leadership, programs, advocacy, training, partnerships, and communications.

Every Local and Council PTA that applies will receive a digital badge. We will select one Council PTA and one Local PTA at both the elementary and secondary levels as the Overall Family & Student Engagement Impact Award winners and recognize them at LAUNCH.

This award application will be open from February 1 through April 15th.

Click here to recognize your PTA today!

How to Apply

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

Your PTA and school information
- Your PTA’s Texas PTA ID number
Your vision, priorities, and goals
- Share the vision that guided your PTA's programs and activities.
Your PTA's work and impact
- Provide specific examples that demonstrate how your PTA made its work inclusive, individualized, integrated, and impactful.
- Explain how you identified needs, responded to feedback, collaborated with educators, supported learning, and evaluated the effectiveness of your work.
- Describe what students and families learned, how they were engaged, and what difference your PTA’s work made. Include measurable outcomes or other evidence of impact when available.

Tips for a Strong Application

Be specific - Describe programs clearly and demonstrate your PTA’s understanding of your community’s unique needs.
Explain your choices - Expand on how your PTA identified needs, chose its approach, and intentionally designed or adapted its work.
Show impact – Describe what students and families learned, how they were engaged, and what difference your work made. Include numbers, feedback, observations, or other evidence when helpful.
Show growth - If your PTA tried something new, adapted an existing approach, or improved its practices based on what it learned, explain what changed and why.

Scoring

Judges determine levels of strength and specificity of the evidence provided, scoring entries from 0-8.

Every applicant who fully completes three of the four sections will receive a Digital Badge.
Based on the total score, PTAs may receive one of four recognition levels.
- Bronze
- Silver
- Gold
- Platinum

Judges will choose one elementary, one secondary, and one Council PTA from the highest recognition level achieved to receive the Outstanding Texas PTA Family & Student Engagement Impact Award.

Questions?

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

Interested in Growing Your School's Impact?

PTA is committed to growing family engagement initiatives and offers the School of Excellence recognition program. Over 40 years of research show that increased family engagement is linked to school improvement and student achievement. By enrolling in this program, your PTA and school administrators are making a year-long commitment in identifying and implementing an action plan for school improvement based on PTA's National Standards for Family-School Partnerships.

Additional Opportunities:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst Award

The Phoebe Apperson Hearst Awards for innovation in family engagement, named after National PTA co-founder Phoebe Apperson Hearst, recognize and celebrate achievement in building effective family-school partnerships. The awards are presented to PTAs that have earned top rank with their National PTA School of Excellence designation by demonstrating outstanding achievement, engaging families in student success, and school improvement. Local PTAs are encouraged to enroll in and complete the National PTA School of Excellence program to be considered for the Hearst Awards.