What is the Parent Teacher Leadership Academy?
The Parent Teacher Leadership Academy (PTLA) is a leadership program that provides selected parents and teachers with opportunities to develop their knowledge and abilities as leaders within their school communities. Both parents and teachers are selected for participation by their school’s principal.
The Parent Teacher Leadership Academy includes:
- Elementary Academy
- Middle School Academy
- High School Academy
Parent Participation
Parents participating in the Parent Teacher Leadership Academy will:
- Learn about key factors in supporting student academic achievement.
- Develop skills and techniques to use when working with parents, teachers, principals and other school personnel.
- Explore innovative ways of building and sustaining strong family/school partnerships.
Teacher Participation
Teachers participating in the Parent Teacher Leadership Academy will:
- Apply tools to assess their schools’ current types and levels of parent/family engagement.
- Design a school-wide research-based strategy for engaging parents/families as partners in school which is directly linked to student achievement.
- Develop as a cadre of teacher leaders to increase parent/family and school engagement.
The Parent Teacher Leadership Academy (PTLA) is a joint initiative of the Tuscaloosa City and County School Systems, the University of Alabama’s Center for Community-Based Partnerships, and the faculty in the University of Alabama’s College of Education and College of Human Environmental Sciences.
Address
Capital Hall, 270 Kilgore Lane
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Phone Number
205-348-9854
Email Address
ptla@ua.edu