Read the November newsletter at https://tnpta.org/news/february_2023_newsletter.pdf
Find the Call to Convention, 2023, in this issue of the newsletter
Message from the President
It is February already!
My two years as state PTA president is rapidly coming to an end in a few months! (July 1st!) Transitions are a crucial part of the PTA mission. Each new president has a different vision and a different way to support our mission. I believe officer transitions are one of the many great strengths of PTA because it keeps our association continuing to be relevant and responsive. With this thought, I embrace transition and will help our state president-elect as much as possible in the upcoming months.
Our elected officers have taken on even more duties and tasks since late December. Our office administrator resigned, and those duties were reassigned to our all volunteer elected officers. If we are slow responding to office emails or to office voice messages or to other requests, please know that we are diligently trying to take care of our position duties and the additional duties shifted to us during this time. We are discovering the long path sometimes in learning the procedures with our state and federal government departments. One of the major changes included receiving the mail. With no one working at the state PTA office building, we had to forward our mail to a PO Box close to the president and president elect. Send mail to the Tennessee PTA at P.O. Box 1536, Hixson, TN 37343.
Save the date of April 21-23, 2023 for the Tennessee PTA Annual Meeting and Convention to be held in Franklin, Tennessee. Have your PTA unit budgets reflect sending a delegate to convention. This is a legitimate PTA expense!
We are advocacy. PTA was founded as an advocacy association. Read our PTA Mission statement—you will find the word advocate in the statement. What other parent-teacher association has been around for 125 years advocating for children and youth? Not one single organization beyond PTA. PTA is all of us.
We are PTA!
Dwight Hunter
President, Tennessee PTA
View & Download the February 2023 Newsletter here
