Resources to promote your PTA Reflections Art Contest
- Email NISD.PTA.arts@gmail.com at any time with questions or for resources
- Join our Facebook Reflections Group: NISD PTA Reflections and Arts in Education
- Join our Remind: @nisdptaart
- Check out our Council Google Drive! Lots of forms and posters, sample plans of work, etc. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i9Q7Q_T7JrjIP-kg11Ou4oKO8EehO6M1
- Texas State PTA rules, posters, and images are here: https://www.txpta.org/reflections-leader-resources Student Entry forms are here: https://www.txpta.org/reflections-participation
- National PTA has posters, images, and a short film as part of the National PTA Reflections Toolkit: https://www.pta.org/home/programs/reflections/toolkit
- Shaleen from Round Rock ISD has some great resources available here: http://absolutelyjoyfulcom.ipage.com/pta/reflections-posters/
To spark your creative ideas, these are some ways other schools have done PTA Reflections:
- A Spirit Monkey Spirit Stick could be used for participation prizes.
- A kick-off event
- A Reflections Spirit Night at a local restaurant with all the proceeds funding your local prizes
- A Family Art Night celebrating creativity and introducing the forms of art accepted in the art contest: Visual Arts, Photography, Literature, Music, Dance, Film, and Special Artist. You can have a local photographer giving tips about framing, get high school volunteers to teach dance, set up some play dough and invite parents to download stop motion software onto their home devices, etcetera.
- Have a poster and flyers in the classroom for meet the teacher night.
- Have an activity station at your back to school night or kick-off night!
- set up some crayons and have a coloring contest.
- set out some random objects that might represent heroes and let kids take still-life photos with their phones
- Have a photo-op with a frame that says “My Hero”
- Ask the computers teacher to show parents the software students can use on school computers to create movies.
- At the staff lunch before school starts, present the theme to the teachers and encourage them to have “early finishers” work on their projects in class.
- Provide a laminated flyer or two that teachers can use as a “station” during rotations.
- Meet with your campus art teacher and encourage them to practice writing Artist’s Statements for the work they do in class.
- “Write about your heroes” is a great prompt for ELA teachers to free-write during class.
- Meet with the Special Education Team and encourage them to enter students in the Special Artist category.
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