Need a quorum at your PTA meeting?
Try these suggestions if you want more parents to attend your association meetings:
- Send out an agenda at least ten days prior
- Hang a banner with date, day and time of meeting. Make your own, or order one from the PTA Store.
- Don’t change a date on the yearly calendar without plenty of notice
- Consider modifying your bylaws to have less association meetings per year so that those meetings can include a program or presentation of interest
- Use the personal touch; try a phone tree to invite members and then follow-up with a phone call or email about attending
- Advertise the meeting on the school marquee, in your newsletter or on your PTA social media platforms
- Follow-up with postcard reminders or email alerts
- Ask everyone to bring someone with them to the meeting
- Start and end on time
- Include a potluck meal or have a dessert/ice cream social
- Offer door prizes
- Conduct a concise business meeting before a program of interest to your community
- Change meeting venues and times for variety (different schools, perhaps)
- Invite your superintendent to speak
- Provide a training after your meeting with breakout workshops
- Provide babysitting with activities or homework help (Be sure to follow Toolkit and insurance guidelines.)
- Have programs related to community issues
- Have an exciting guest speaker
- Have your Honorary Service Award and Founder’s Day program
- Have entertainment by the students (choir and/or band) or a display of student artwork
- Celebrate the PTA’s successes; toot your horn about accomplishments.