I have to say I never had to do the resume thing either and I wasnt even an officer moving up. All I did was say I wanted to run and that was that we voted and I was in.

Basically though if you did have to put one together. I would list any volunteer work, what kind of activities you would like to see at the school different, improvement ideas and things you would want to leave the same.
Maybe list some of your orgainzational skills and why you want to be involved.

I cant believe they want a resume is anyone else wanting to run besides you.


Cindy

A resume for PTO President?

Not to be sarcastic, but my only qualification for Chairperson was
1.) I am a live human being.

I suppose some of the secondary qualifications were

2.) I attended the PTO meetings.
3.) I got involved in planning several family nights and carnivals.

What kind of competition are you up against that you need a resume?

As for the job, if you have some new ideas, get along with people, and don't mind doing a whole lot of work without much recognition, then you can handle the job.

A lot of the work is figuring out how you "promote" the "product", whether it is a new fundraiser or a family event. Collecting Box Tops For Education should just be a one liner in the school newsletter, "Please bring in your Box Tops to help our school raise money." Instead, because parents ignore it or don't do it, you have to come up with promotions to get people excited and enthused about it. You have to have classroom competitions, or drawings for small prizes, or other creative ways for parents to want to cut out Box Tops.

Same with Family Nights or Carnivals. You could send a flyer home for 5 straight weeks with the kids, and still 20% of the parents will be clueless that we are having a carnival and when it is. That is why unfortunately a lot of the promotions are aimed at the kid level, because a kid will cut out box tops for a dandy bar, while some parents you could offer a cruise as a drawing and they still wouldn't cut one out.

But on the positive side, it gets frustrating at times, but after a large event like the carnival where you see parents and their kids having a good time, and the principal of the school comes up and says "thanks". then you realize that sometime later in life the kids will be talking about the great carnivals their school used to have. I got involved initially with the PTO through the carnival committee, just because I still fondly remembered the school carnivals I had as a kid some 30 years ago.

So I say skip the resume, instead type up a list of some of your ideas, and take the leap and run for PTO president.

Hi, I am new to the whole PTO thing. I have a second grader and I've never gotten too involved due to the fact that this is the first school we've been at for a whole year, and now I'm ready. Full steam ahead! The PTO is looking for a new president. First any presidents out there, what exactly does this job involve, and second, they want a resume. What do you put on a resume to be PTO president? Do I have to be qualified? I feel like I have some good ideas and a lot to add to this school, am I jumping the gun? And third, this is a charter school on the core knowlege program, is PTO different for charter schools? Thanks for the help
Sheri