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Bank of Best Practices

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PTAs and PTSAs throughout California have outstanding projects to benefit children, their communities and school staff.

Many of these programs are easily replicated in most units, councils and communities.

The California State PTA Bank of Best Practices is the place to find programs, projects, and ideas to support the good work of PTA in your school and your community.

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Sample Programs

For examples of great program ideas by subject area, click on categories above.

Scholarship Assistance Provides Partnering Opportunity

The Moreno Valley Council PTA has found a way to help high school students navigate the daunting world of scholarships and forge community partnerships at the same time. (Submitted August 2009)
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Juvenile Camp Court School Support Program

“To think that we are helping to make just a small difference in just one of these boys’ lives is one of the most rewarding experiences I have had with my involvement in PTA.”
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Kids Crush Cans With Ed — And Save the Planet!

Kids crushing cans, stomping away with abandon with celebrity actor/environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr., star of HGTV’s “Living with Ed” — that was the festive recycling scene at John Muir Elementary School in San Francisco
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Outstanding Advocacy Award

“The key to our advocacy efforts is the wonderful teamwork of our entire council board, our units, and the collaboration with the school district.”
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Programs that Work: Students for Success

It’s 4 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon, and the place is buzzing. Kids, free from the confines of the classroom at last, are taking an opportunity to get together with their friends to hang out and participate in the latest, coolest thing on campus … studying in the school library.
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San Francisco PTA Gets its Message Across

More than most PTA roles, a communications position needs to be tailored to the school community. Communications modes can range from the old-fashioned phone tree to the latest in high-tech databases.
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Juvenile Detention School Forms PTSA

Rio Contiguo PTSA, which serves the alternative high school at a juvenile correctional facility in the City of Orange, was chartered in August.
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