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SOT EARNEST MOORE '01@1CG - EARNEST MOORE         PIMA FINALIST, P.G. CO.OTS - PARENT INVOLVEMENT MATTERS                       AWARD -- UNDERWIPE--    CHOOSE YOUR SEAT, GET INVOLVED!		(sot earnest)
(JR) 'So they call you Mr. PTA?	
		(Earnest) 'Yes, Um, Miss Sheila Jackson at the Prince George's County -- she is the director of the Parent and Community Outreach Office --'	
SOT EARNEST '01@2		(sot earnest)
'So she 'canned' that for me and I truly accept it.'	
PICS		(narrator track)
earnest moore travels to meetings all over prince George's -- all the time.	
		he's created the urban family engagement network.	
SOT EARNEST '01@4 &5PICS: PARENTSCHILDRENMEETINGHISPANICS		(sot earnest)
'The Urban Family Engagement Network was a great opportunity that the National PTA provided funding as well as technical assistance -- slice -- 'to provide some fundamental information for our parents on how to navigate the school system, how to be an advocate for an individual child, how to understand how the government system works ...'	
PICS:		(narrator track)
HE DESIGNED AND WON A NATIONAL PTA GRANT  --	
		funding training and translation -- .	
SOT EARNEST '01@6COVER W/PIC: TRAINING SESSION		(sot earnest)
'as well as centers to bring our parents in when they decide to come in to the training sessions.'	
SOT EARNEST '02@1COVER W/MORE PIC TRAINING		(sot earnest)
'... we broke them into six sessions which this allowed the parents to come out only six times out of the six-month period of time -- each session lasts for about an hour...'	
PICS - GRADUATION PICS		(narrator track)
they meet -- and come away with the means to work the system, WORK WITH EACH OTHER, and build LOCAL LEADERS.	
SOT EARNEST '02@2PIC: ANOTHER GRADUATION?PIC - TRUANCY		(SOT EARNEST)
'What this does is it builds parent leaders within the individual group themself where they can go back to that local school and mimic that. They can go back and work with their local PTA's and they can be able to share with them how they can be able to advocate for whatever challenges or issues they have at the school.'	
SOT EARNEST '02@3		(sot earnest)
'... now the parent feels as 'if I'm empowered to make change then I can be able to speak for me and my child and the community.'	
 PICS OF MOORE		(narrator track)
described as 'an unstoppable volunteer, and a pta 'leader for life' -- moore has four children in the p-g system.	
SOT EARNEST '03@2PICS EARNEST: 		(sot earnest)
'It is a very hectic schedule sometimes (smile) it's almost as if every week, every night i'm out and I want to thank my family for allowing me to do that, because again, it is a labor of love.'	
SOT EARNEST '03@4		(SOT EARNEST)
'I've always been the type of person that I'll jump in until you tell me not to do it, and then I'll stop and what happens is (nice smile) a lot of people see that you are willing to do that so they allow you to lead and as long as you are providing positive input and positive answers and results to it you'll find that all of a sudden they have no problems with you coming in, serving, being, contributing to it, they have no problems whatsoever.'	
SOT EARNEST '04@4		(sot earnest)
'We always say that 'it takes a village to raise a child.' We quote that but when it's time for that village to come together, a lot of times we always work in pockets --...'	
PICS		(narrator track)
moore says the parent always is the first teacher.	
SOT EARNEST '04@5		(sot earnest)
'But we also realize that that parent will have to release the children into the community, into the school system, and that's where the school system and the community come together -- slice -- 'to see how they can be able to help the child reach its individual full potential, and the only way to do that is through shared responsibility.'	
FREEZE & HOLD		(narrator track)
earnest moore, pima finalist, prince george's county.	
FADE TO BLACK		(fade audio)