The nominations have been made, the ballots have been cast, and it’s now time to get your 2015-2016 PTO and PTA board into shape! While your board probably has a few returning members, especially those who were elected or appointed to officer positions, there’s probably a few newcomers as well, and it’s important that everyone […]
Jump Into Spring 2015
Spring has sprung! Well, almost. But if the flowers aren’t fully in bloom in your town yet that doesn’t mean it isn’t coming. And with spring weather comes spring-time based school events; baseball and softball games, class trips to water parks or historical sites, field days, Boy Scout and Girl Scout camping trips – you […]
Taking Back Your Time
“Lost time is never found again.” (Ben Franklin) The mid-winter rhythms of American families, schools and businesses can provide a welcome respite from the manic pace of early fall and late spring. While this is obviously not always the case—as many factors, including health, finances, successes and failures, come into play to impact these rhythms—the […]
It’s Ticket Season
Can you believe we’re already into February? We’re getting into school dance season – Winter Balls for the high school and middle school crowd, and father/daughter and mother/son dances for the elementary school scene. And of course there are proms and graduations coming up in the next couple of months, as well as class field […]
Winter Blues | Pay4SchoolStuff.com
There’s no doubt that a lot of coordination needs to go into planning school events. Securing the materials, space, transportation, parents’ permission, or any other necessities requires a lot of time from teachers, parents, and school officials to get everything just right. So what happens, on the day the signed permission slip and/or bus money […]
A Quick Guide To The Advanced Placement (AP) Exams
It may feel like the school year only just begun – after all, we’re just barely at Thanksgiving! – but in just a few short months it will be time to begin registering and paying fees for the Advanced Placement (AP) exams. In fact, students who may need testing accommodations for disabilities must submit their […]
Teenagers and Halloween Behaviors | Halloween Series, Part 2
It’s nearly Halloween! It’s time for candy, costumes, and carousing. It’s also time for “tweens” and teenagers to make a big bid for their independence. While going Trick or Treating with Mom or Dad is fun for little kids, once adolescents hit a certain age it becomes “uncool.” The alternative is, of course, to go […]
Part 3: I Don’t Know How I Can Do All Of This!
This is the third installment of the Pay4SchoolStuff.com “I Don’t Know How I Can Do All Of This” Series! If you’ve missed the first two installments, you can check them out here. Part One || Part Two A suburban Virginia parent and PTA Board member just wrote to us this week: You have changed the […]
Part Two: I Don’t Know How I Can Do All Of This!
In the first part of our new series – I Don’t Know How I Can Do All Of This – we discussed the issues that face many organizational leaders. One of the most common issues we hear from leaders is that there’s simply too much to do – which leads to a bit of stagnation. […]
No Other Website Helps You Manage All of Your Affairs in One Place………..No One!
Does your school or parent organization… collect fees and payments from the families in your school? request information from parents about their children for registrations? Permissions? Waivers? raise funds to support activities and personnel in order to enhance the instruction in your school? recruit volunteers to serve as committee chairs, assistants, activity/event support people? need […]