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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 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.

Every Local and Council PTA that applies will receive a digital badge. One Council PTA and one Local PTA at both elementary and secondary levels will be selected as the Overall Family & Student Engagement Impact 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
A summary of your family and student engagement priorities
Descriptions of your key programs and activities
Share examples of your impact

Copies of your marketing initiative and pictures from your event
Data points (attendance, survey results, etc.)
Quotes or short stories from families or students

Tips for a Strong Application

Be specific - Describe programs clearly and demonstrate your PTA’s understanding of your community’s unique needs.
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.
Show growth - Even if your PTA is not yet in the "Transforming" level for all categories, highlight progress.
Provide clear explanations of how and why your PTA made programming decisions.

Scoring

Judges determine levels by total rubric points. PTAs with the strongest evidence of intentional, inclusive, integrated, and impactful programming score the highest.

Digital Badge - Every Applicant
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
Outstanding Texas PTA Family & Student Engagement Impact Awardees

One Outstanding Elementary Local PTA
One Outstanding Secondary Local PTA
One Outstanding Council PTA

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?

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.