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I am a mother of 3 school-aged children. My son will be entering 6th grade at a new "intermediate academy" this year. (So this will be my first year to experience PTSA unit work.) My girls will be in 4th grade and 2nd grade. My husband and I have been married for 14 years (together for nearly 20 years total).

In the past I have been chair of the Teacher Appreciation Committee and Recording Secretary. This will be my third and final year as President of our elementary school PTA. I also started an award-winning PTA website for usabout 2 years ago which I still maintain. Our PTA has been an Indiana Central Region Honor Unit for 6 years in a row. Last year we had one member for every child.

I am also active in PTA on the Council and State levels.

Prior to the birth of our second child, I worked professionally as an AEA stage manager in a small professional theatre.

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We did it!

Not only did we achieve our 50% growth goal.....we went beyond it! We got 424 members, which is matching membership for our September ADM count. It has been around 8 years since an Indiana PTA Unit achieved this goal. :-)

Posted on March 24, 2010 at 11:29am

Getting closer

We haven't QUITE hit that 50% goal yet. We are at 347 members right now.....just 13 more members away from our 50% increase! We have already won a free registration to our State Convention since we are 100 members above last year's total.

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 11:59pm

334 members

We are now up to 334 members. This is a 39% increase over last year. Between a faculty contest to sponsor members and having all our fall carnival vendors become members, we are off to a teriffic year! Just 26 more members to get to a 50% increase! Surely we can do that before March!!!!!

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 8:28pm

We did it!

We hit a 25% increase before fall break! Our principal had sponsored a contest among the staff to get them to sponsor memberships. We got around 50 new memberships from this contest. Our PE teacher sponsored 16 of those memberships and won NFL tickets. This pushed us up to 305 members, which is around a 27% increase over last year.

Posted on September 30, 2009 at 7:30am

+20%!

We are now 20% above last year's membership! Whoo hoo! Just 12 more members and we will hit a 25% increase at 300 members. A new membership appeal is going out in the school newsletter on Friday. Hopefully we will hit 300 next week prior to fall break. I wonder if we can get to 360, which is a 50% increase?! I know we should have at least another 20 members from Fall Carnival vendors that have not paid yet if we have the same number or vendors as last year. And I can think of at least 6 parents… Continue

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 9:43pm

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At 7:35pm on March 24, 2010, Jamie Lynn Buccieri said…: Thanks Carissa.I am definatley looking forward to all the advice and ideas!

At 9:08pm on July 20, 2009, Michelle Shuffitt said…: The breakfast was fun! I wish more parents would have stayed for food. Maybe next year we can move the supplies away from the teachers to eliminate some of the congestion.

At 5:21pm on July 20, 2009, Dawn Blessinger said…: Hi Carissa! Where are you in Indiana? I did not make the last convention. I went in 2008 though. It was very informative. Hopefully now that I'm a board member I can help make some of the suggestions I heard work for us! Did you make the last convention?

At 1:06pm on July 16, 2009, PTA Administrator said…: Thanks for joining the PTA Great Idea Bank. Outstanding contributions! Keep the conversations going. Feedback is welcome.

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