Historian

What the Historian does:

• Captures and keeps a record of their unit's activities and successes
• Collects and adds up their unit's volunteer hours, on a regular basis
• Showcases their unit's success at PTA meetings, events and activities
• Shares their unit's history and legacy of PTA as a leading voice for all children

Ways to get started:

• Look through last term's procedure book and historical materials and start your own procedure book
• Brainstorm ideas to plan how and when you'll showcase your PTA's success (Founders Day is often a key date)
• Publicize why and how you'll collect everyone's volunteer hours for PTA meetings, activities and events during the year
• Review the PTA Unit – Annual Historian Report Form Ideas for capturing & keeping records
• Make a PTA Scrapbook
• Make a video of some of your events
• Take pictures and display them
• Make a PTA slide show or loop video to play at events and/or before meetings
• for a PTA bulletin board in the school's multipurpose room, office or other common space
• Create a historian page on your unit website
• Use poster board to display photos, clippings and memorabilia
• Convert hours into money and present a symbolic check to your Principal at a school or PTA event
• Share your ideas and successes with your Council, District and State PTA organizations