Best practices for PTAs/PTOs

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Discover what your parents really need with our survey

Learn how to refocus your PTA/PTO on parent community building via our playbook

Set up your PTO/PTA as part of your school’s Honeycomb structure

Build your community around parent interests to help parents find their people

How to make another parent (or staff) an admin 📋

Communicate and reinforce Honeycomb’s community standards

Post volunteer opportunities so people respond

How to use the calendar to get volunteers: Step 2

Get more attention for key volunteer needs and events by starting a conversation around them. Tap on the “Chat” button on the FYI in the Calendar tab. Then send a nudge, share more information, or make a specific ask in the classroom group chat. **Small group chats are much more effective at prompting parents to engage than big chats, email, or Facebook.** Starting classroom chats within volunteer FYI requests is a great role for Room Parents to help prompt volunteer interest. (Remember that FYI chats get auto-archived after the FYI passes.)

Each calendar item has a link to create its own dedicated classroom chat. Use it to send targeted and chatty reminders.

How to nudge parents: have your PTO/PTA leaders, room parents etc. start chats around volunteer events at the classroom level.

How to use emojis 👍🏻 to get easy and fast responses

Make it easy and create social proof around your volunteer ask by listing a set of volunteer tasks and then ask families to sign up by responding with a “thumbs up” emoji, or by using the reply feature.

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Volunteer coordination is on our product roadmap, but for now, please use your existing tools. Please email ([email protected]) or DM us if you really want this so we can measure demand.