Washington State PTA Awards

Awards List

• Individual Award
  • Leadership Academy
• Volunteer Service Awards – fees go to state PTA scholarship fund
  •  Golden Acorn
  •  Honorary Life Membership
  •  Outstanding Educator Award
  •  Outstanding Advocate
  •  Outstanding Service – Region, Council, State level only
•  Local Unit/Council Awards
  • 100% Membership
  • Communication
  • Outstanding Newsletter
  • PTAs Taking Significant Action
  • Standards of Excellence
  • Honor Unit
  • Outstanding Local Unit
• National Awards
  • PTA Unit Achievement Award
  • Other National PTA Awards

Individual Award – Leadership Academy

• Due March 1, 2012 (Postmark)
• Bronze, Silver, Gold and Crystal Levels
• Done on a point basis – points for leadership positions, conference/workshop attendance
• Bronze = 75 points
• Applicants are entitled to all points in a given year – same position in different years earns points for each year
• Points for attending workshops, conferences, convention for each date
• Officer and board member at same local unit receives points for one position
• Officer and board member at separate local units receives points for both positions

Volunteer Services Awards – Choosing your Honorees

• No due date by State, Council due date in February for District reception
• Number of Awards
  • In Standing Rules
  • No state rule about number
• Awards Committee – often past honorees serve, clarifies for members how to nominate candidates, distributes and collects forms, chooses honorees, president ex-officio member
• Awards for service in past year – encourages volunteers to give as much in coming years, doesn’t have to be officer or board member, reward graduation parents with honorary life membership
• Nominations from your membership
• Give awards very publicly!! – strive to offer these at well attended events, publish in newsletter
• Award order forms: www.wastatepta.org, click on Leadership Resource, Login using PTAmember and leader, click on Awards
• Award rubric and nomination form for Golden Acorn: Here

 

Washington State PTA Awards – honor your entire PTSA, honorees announced at Convention, you must nominate your unit in order to win – due date March 1, 2012

• 100% Membership –
  • Must submit form to receive. Requires membership number, FTE enrollment number and principal signature.
• Communication –
  • identify & recognize all forms of effective communication from PTAs to PTA members and the community about programs, projects, activities, and issues affecting children. These awards are not limited to any specific medium and may include web sites, email, voice mail, public access television, communication through/with partners and more
• Outstanding Newsletter –
  • PTA newsletters are judged and presented awards in 5 categories for units and 1 for councils. Categories by student enrollment.
• PTAs Taking Significant Action –
  • purpose of program is to recognize the accomplishments of units and councils across the state that present programs, projects and activities that show significant originality, involvement, potential, usefulness and results. Selected programs will reflect how projects and activities are implemented by small and large, affluent and poor, city and rural PTAs.
• Standards of Excellence –
  • the purpose it to provide PTA local units with a set of standards that define qualities of excellence; provide training to local units on attainment of those standards; identify, recognize and honor those units that achieve the standards.
• Honor Units –
  • a local unit which has, in its service to children, gone significantly beyond the attainment of standards of excellence and has demonstrated the kind of exceptional qualities that merit replication by others.
• Outstanding Local Unit – selected from honor units

Award order forms: www.wastatepta.org, click on Leadership Resource at the top