All Pro Dads Event

On Saturday, December 4, Missouri PTA sponsored and participated in an All Pro Dads Rams family event at the Russell training center in St. Louis. It was a fun filled day with over 1000 in attendance. Activities, games and motivation was the key to the day. Not to mention some personal motivation from Aneanus Williams, alumni of the Rams, asking Dads to pledge 1 minute a day (daily email), 1 hour a month (an All Pro Dads meeting) to commit to their children.

Events like this are being planned to engage males in the life of school children across the state of Missouri. "Men are Parents too." said Missouri PTA President Wendy Jackson, when asked about the event. Missouri PTA is not your Mother's PTA, we are no longer just organizing parties, or baking cookies, we are organizing events such as this to increase male involvement.

Missouri PTA Convention

Our State Convention was held this year in Columbia Missouri. All who attended were inspired to do more for Missouris children . Thanks to all who attended. A great time was had by all.

PTA sign is up!

June Board Meeting

Our Ice Breaker game!

The winner for the worst bubblegum sculpture! Denise

The winner for the best bubblegum sculpture! Patty

Leadership Conference

April 2010

Leadership Conference was held in Kansas City Missouri

The theme was PEACE LOVE & PTA.

Emerging Minority Leaders

March 20, 2010 at Webster University,

Kansas City, Missouri

Missouri PTA hosted the first ever EML conference and we feel it was a huge success. It was the first day of Spring and we hope that we planted the seeds for new leaders in Missouri PTA. We would like to thank all who attended.

Child Advocacy Day 2010

Jefferson City

Missouri PTA awarded Representative Charlie Denison with the Missouri Distinguished Service Award.

National Legislative Conference 2010

Nixa Council PTA Founders Day

Nixa Council held their Founders Day event in February. There was a great turn out and surprising guest with their Distinguished Service Awards was a highlight of the program!

Kansas PTA and Missouri PTA Partner

Missouri PTA recently teamed up with the Kansas PTA for the Kansas Early Childhood Conference held February 20,2010 at the Indian Creek Technology center in Shawnee Mission, KS. The theme for the conference was "Together We Can". Some highlights of the day were a keynote by National PTA CEO Byron Garrett, breakouts session that included;Parents Rights,Sharing POWER!, Uniqueness of Early Childhood Experience, Urban Intiative, Best Practices for Early Childhood Units, and Value of PTA membership.
It is great to work cooperatively with neighboring states, since "Alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much". Thanks to the Kansas PTA for a wonderful conference and the hospitality.

Public Radio Reporter - KC PTA Event‏

During the 2009 MO PTA Annual Convention President Wendy Jackson and National PTA CEO Byron Garrett were interviewed by KCUR an affiliate of NPR. The topic discussed - parent involvement in urban school settings. Byron Garrett spoke about the challenge of marketing the value of PTA, and President Wendy Jackson answered specific questions relating to the Kansas City School District.
Check out the radio broadcast at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kcur/news.newsmain/article/0/1/1599753/KCUR.News/PTA.wants.to.play.a.larger.role.in.urban.districts