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BECOME AN ALL-STAR!

All-Star Members support all 24 GUSD PTA/PTSA units with one simple transaction!  If you are interested in an All-Star membership, please print this form and mail with a check for $240, payable to Glendale Council PTA.

Every Child. One Voice.

PTA's mission is to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.

PTA Values

  • Collaboration: We will work in partnership with a wide array of individuals and organizations to broaden and enhance our ability to serve and advocate for all children and families.

  • Commitment: We are dedicated to children’s educational success, health, and well-being through strong family and community engagement, while remaining accountable to the principles upon which our association was founded.

  • Diversity: We acknowledge the potential of everyone without regard, including but not limited to: age, culture, economic status, educational background, ethnicity, gender, geographic location, legal status, marital status, mental ability, national origin, organizational position, parental status, physical ability, political philosophy, race, religion, sexual orientation, and work experience.

  • Respect: We value the individual contributions of members, employees, volunteers, and partners as we work collaboratively to achieve our association’s goals.

  • Accountability: All members, employees, volunteers, and partners have a shared responsibility to align their efforts toward the achievement of our association’s strategic initiatives.


The Power of PTA: PTA Makes a Difference

Over 126 years, PTA has helped solve some of the biggest issues facing America’s children. Many of the structures all children benefit from today—child labor laws, universal kindergarten, the National School Lunch Program and the juvenile justice system—were accomplished as a result of PTA members’ advocacy.

And it’s not just at the national level. Our state and local PTAs change lives too. Florida PTA members helped to defeat a piece of state legislation that would allow for-profit management companies and other corporate interests to take over public schools, keeping children’s educations from effectively being bought and sold. Washington State PTA worked to secure the passage of several major state education reforms, improving the day-to-day lives of children across the state. The impact of PTA is felt far and wide across our country

Valuable Resources

Administrative factors also set PTA apart from other parent groups. PTA offers a national and state infrastructure, with staff and trained volunteer leaders available to assist PTAs in securing nonprofit status, filing government paperwork, creating bylaws, purchasing low-cost insurance and training leaders. These support services are included in PTA membership at no additional cost.

PTA schools have access to experts, resources, trainings and dozens of programs and initiatives to encourage arts education, healthy lifestyles and family reading. Over the years we’ve had a PTA in Georgia sponsor vision clinics for low-income students. And in Detroit, Mich., a PTA runs after-school programs that keep kids off the streets. In California, a PTA created a buddy system between families with limited English proficiency and other bilingual families.

When a school has a PTA, parents are better informed and more engaged, and the learning environment is more supportive for students—plus, the school has a better reputation in its community.

Thank you — 2023-24 All-star members!

  • Lerna Amiryans, President, Glendale Council PTA

  • Taline Arsenian, President, Glendale Teachers Association

  • Katrin Avanessians, Secretary, Glendale Council PTA

  • Lea Awni, President, Family First Foundation

  • Dr. David Cole, Chairman of the Board, Verdugo Hills Dads Club

  • Dr. Chris Coulter, Executive Director Secondary Education, GUSD

  • Susan Crancer Hunt, Community Supporter

  • Kathleen Cross, Member, Board of Education

  • Maya Diakoff, Owner, Mathnasium Glendale

  • Dr. Jennifer Earl Foss, Arts Coordinator, GUSD

  • Cori Egstad, 2nd Vice President Membership, Glendale Council PTA

  • Dr. Vivian Ekchian, Former Superintendent, GUSD

  • Hagop Eulmessekian, Director, Student Support Services, GUSD

  • Jennifer Freemon, President, Board of Education

  • Jennifer Chin Gonzales, Director, Nutrition & Operations Services, GUSD

  • Ingrid Gunnell, Clerk, Board of Education

  • Phyllis Ishisaka, Executive Assistant to the Superintendent, GUSD

  • Monna Johnson, Past President, Glendale Council PTA

  • Rebecca Johnson, Past President, Glendale Council PTA

  • Hagop Kassabian, Administrator, Facilities Planning & Maintenance, GUSD

  • Dr. Brian Landisi, Principal, Anderson W. Clark Magnet High School

  • Kristin Levy, VP Special Events, Glendale Council PTA

  • Dr. Lonny Root, Principal, Allan F. Daily Continuation High School

  • Romie Ruiz, Executive Director, Glendale Educational Foundation

  • Shant Sahakian, Member, Board of Education

  • Frank Schlueter, Director, Educational Technology and Information, GUSD

  • Dr. Jay Schwartz, Director, Foothill SELPA, GUSD

  • Wendy Tateishi, VP of Membership, First District PTA

  • Dr. Tammy Taylor, Principal, College View School