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PTA’s Great Transformation. Byron V. Garrett Chief Executive Officer National PTA. “Never doubt that a group of committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has!” - Margaret Mead. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
PTA’s Great TransformationByron V. Garrett
Chief Executive OfficerNational PTA
“Never doubt that a group of committed citizens can
change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has!”
- Margaret Mead
In the words of young people today, we’re often imitated, but never duplicated. Because of this great transformation, we must engage in ways we’ve
never done before.
Standard One:
Welcoming ALL
Families
Just because they don’t know our
history doesn’t mean they’re not able to help write the next
chapter of it.
What matters most is one’s
commitment to success for all
children.
It’s criminal to condemn an child to a life that goes
from cradle to prison because we lose sight of what
really matters.
"I feel like I was cheated of my education.”-- Wayne Knowland, 2010
A Diploma I Can’t Read
5The number of teens who will drop out in the next
two minutes.
1,710Number of high school dropout during all four
General Meetings
America Cannot Survive
Half-Educated
“Whatever your life’s work is…you should do
your job so well, the living – the dead and the
unborn could do it no better”
- Martin Luther King