Reflections 2024-25: Accepting Imperfection
This year’s Reflections theme is “Accepting Imperfections”. A great place for local-PTA Reflections leaders to start is the Texas PTA website: https://www.txpta.org/reflections. You will find lots of useful information on there including Leader Resources and Promotional materials. What a great way to start the new school year!
Amanda Hsia, from the Prairie Trail PTA, is the LISD Council of PTAs Reflections coordinator. The Council submission deadline this year is November 13th. We will continue to accept digital submissions like last year. Reach out to Amanda with questions, inputs or ideas at reflections@lisdpta.org.
Stay tuned for information on an upcoming in-person/virtual workshop in early September.
Reflections founder, Mary Lou Anderson’s vision for the Reflections Program can be found below.
About the Cultural Arts
By: Mary Lou Anderson
(from The Cultural Arts & the PTA brochure)
The cultural arts are happiness. Happiness is drawing, dancing, finger painting.
Happiness is modeling with clay, making music or a poem, performing in a play.
The cultural arts are discovery. Art, music, literature are airlifts to the life experiences
and life ways of other people, other races, other cultures, other times. They lead to
understanding oneself and others.
The cultural arts are wisdom. They are mankind’s commentary on the human condition-
its comedy and tragedy. They are insights into the anguish and ecstasy, the conflicts and
triumphs, the failures and aspirations of humanity.
The cultural arts are breathing room and growing space. Creative activities air feelings,
frustrations, tensions. They nurture growth and self-realization. They are healthful and
healing.
The cultural arts are sense-expanding, mind-expanding, spirit-expanding. They amplify
and intensify the capacity to see, hear, feel, think, understand, and communicate.
The cultural arts are power-moral and social. They awaken man’s conscience. They
move men to compassion, to social action and justice.