PTA’s Great Transformation

1. PTA’s Great Transformation Byron V. Garrett Chief Executive Officer National PTA

2. “Never doubt that a group of committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has!” - Margaret Mead

3. 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.

4. Standard One: Welcoming ALL Families

5. Just because they don’t know our history doesn’t mean they’re not able to help write the next chapter of it.

6. What matters most is one’s commitment to success for all children.

7. It’s criminal to condemn an child to a life that goes from cradle to prison because we lose sight of what really matters.

8. A Diploma I Can’t Read "I feel like I was cheated of my education.” -- Wayne Knowland, 2010

9. 5 The number of teens who will drop out in the next two minutes. 1,710 Number of high school dropout during all four General Meetings

10. America Cannot Survive Half-Educated

11. “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