PTA’s Great TransformationByron V. Garrett

Chief Executive OfficerNational PTA

“Never doubt that a group of committed citizens can

change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has!”

- Margaret Mead

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.

Standard One:

Welcoming ALL

Families

Just because they don’t know our

history doesn’t mean they’re not able to help write the next

chapter of it.

What matters most is one’s

commitment to success for all

children.

It’s criminal to condemn an child to a life that goes

from cradle to prison because we lose sight of what

really matters.

"I feel like I was cheated of my education.”-- Wayne Knowland, 2010

A Diploma I Can’t Read

5The number of teens who will drop out in the next

two minutes.

1,710Number of high school dropout during all four

General Meetings

America Cannot Survive

Half-Educated

“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