About

Mission

 

The Highlands PTO understands and embraces the uniqueness of all individuals, appreciating that each contributes a diversity of views, experiences, cultural heritage/traditions, skills/abilities, values and preferences. When we respect differences yet acknowledge shared commonalities uniting our communities, and then develop meaningful priorities based upon our collective knowledge, we will genuinely represent their community. When we represent our community, we gain strength and effectiveness through increased volunteer and resource support.

The recognition of diversity within our organization is valuing differences and similarities in people through actions and accountability. These differences and similarities include age, ethnicity, language and culture, economic status, educational background, gender, geographic location, marital status, mental ability, national origin, organizational position and tenure, parental status, physical ability, political philosophy, race, religion, and work experience.

Description

 

For more than a 100 years, parent teacher organizations have provided support, information and resources to families focused on the health and education of children. The Highlands Elementary Parent Teachers Organization was organized as a 501c3 tax exempt charitable organization in 1995.

It was created to meet a profound challenge: to better the educational experience of our children. And today, it continues to flourish as an exemplary school because parents, teachers and staff have never lost sight of its goal: to change the lives of children and their educational experience in our community.