2011-12 President Melissa Kicklighter

General Meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the Cline Auditorium, 1st floor, School Board Building. Hospitality is from 9:30-10:00 a.m., and the meeting is from 10:00-Noon.

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Mailing Address

DCC PTA
P.O. Box 5397
Jacksonville, FL 32247

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iAdvocate Grassroots Training

[ January 7, 2012; 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. ] The next Advocacy Training session will be held

Saturday, January 7 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
at Paxon School for Advanced Studies
3239 Norman Thagard Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32254

DCCPTA is able to offer this training through the grant received from National PTA.

The following topics will be covered:
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Post Card Campaign deadline extended

Turn in your postcards by DEC 8th to eligible for the $100 gift card!!!
All units particpating in this drive will earn the “I Have A Voice” Award and be eligible for a raffle drawing of another $100 gift card giveaway in Feb (after our second letter writing campaign)
Contact Vickie to get cards to your unit. [...]

Tackle Hunger

A Simple and Meaningful Service Opportunity for Your School
Are you looking for a meaningful and simple way for your school to serve the community and join thousands of youth across the nation in helping others? Souper Bowl of Caring is a national, non-profit organization that uses the energy around the Super Bowl game to mobilize [...]

Reflections Deadline

[ December 2, 2011; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Turn in your unit’s entries to the 2011-12 Reflections contest.

Dec 2, 2012
Room 613 at the Duval County Public School Board Meeting
9am – noon

Duval County Council’s Additional Rules and Hints for Successful Entries:

1. Each school may submit up to six (6) entries in each area, for a total of thirty-six (36) entries. Please note: Elementary schools [...]

Grassroots advocacy training

[ December 3, 2011; 9:15 am to 12:30 pm. ] Join us for grassroots advocacy training made possible by the CCSSI grant.

Dec 3

9:15am check in
9:30am. Developing issue strategies
11am. Building coalitions
12:30pm done

This training is currently scheduled to be held at Andrew Jackson High School.
3816 N Main St
Jacksonville, FL 32206

Register NOW

Second part of this training (Meeting with Decision Makers & Working with the Media) will [...]

Holiday Postcard Campaign

iAdvocate For Kids makes it easy for you to mobilize your community to use their voices to tell our State Legislators that Public Education is important. It is our State Legislators who dictate how much the DCPS School Board and district office has to spend on our schools and teachers.
Have your parents, teachers, SAC, [...]

DCPS Legislative Agenda

This year Duval County Public Schools and Save Duval Schools created a coalition of agencies around town to discuss the state of public education in the District. DCC PTA was asked to participate with this coalition. Through the work of the coalition, it was decided to come up with a legislative agenda to present to [...]

America Recycles Day

The City of Jacksonville, Keep Jacksonville Beautiful and Southland Recycling Services will celebrate Keep America Beautiful’s second annual America Recycles Day in Jacksonville with a communitywide recycling collection event. In 2010, the partnering agencies collected more than 23,000 pounds of paper, plastic and aluminum products, which is used for the production of new goods instead [...]

Location Change for Grassroots Advocacy Training and SLA

The Nov 5th Superintendent’s Leadership Academy and iAdvocate Grassroots Advocacy Workshop has been moved from Forrest High School to The Shultz Center.
If you are interested in attending the iAdvocate Training – Click here to register.

Florida PTA Day in the Park

[ November 19, 2011; ] PTA day in the Park is a state wide event; everyone will be planning this event on the same day. I wanted to share some ideas and guidelines you may want to use to ensure the success of this day.

The Purpose
Create a Florida PTA statewide event that will bring families together, encourage PTA membership by [...]