Meeker Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has been named the state’s Outstanding Local Unit of the Year.
The
PTA was honored in April at the Washington State PTA Annual Convention
in Bellevue. The unit will also be honored May 29 at the Puyallup PTA
Council Annual Awards Night. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. at Carson
Elementary School.
This
is the second time a Puyallup School District PTA unit has been
selected for the statewide honor. Zeiger Elementary PTA received the
recognition in 2006.
In
selecting award winners, the state’s Outstanding Local Unit award
committee considers factors such as a PTA’s working relationship with
school staff, how it engages families, and its ability to identify
strengths and where it can improve based on its research of the school
community.
“This
PTA obviously understands the concept of school and community,” the
award committee stated. “We found they are an outstanding local unit
that serves a Title I community and thinks outside the box doing new and
inventive things to serve them!”
The
award is given each year to one PTA unit at the primary level and
another at the middle/secondary level. Meeker Elementary was selected
from among more than 900 elementary school PTA units statewide.
An
article in the state PTA “Leadership News” blog states that one of the
keys to the success of the Meeker Elementary PTA is in developing clear
and measureable goals, with input from the principal and a teacher
representative, so its goals are aligned to the school’s goals.
The
article further states that the school has achieved the 100 percent
membership award — one member for every student at the school — for two
consecutive years.