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Here is a great guest Blog from Ganda at Parenting.com - Like myself, she also attended the National PTA Conference. Dads: Come Work for the FBI How do you get fathers to become more engaged with their children's education? All you have to do is ask. That's what convention attendees and speakers hammered home at today's Male Engagement Summit. Men now make up 12% of the PTA. That number could (and should) grow. And an invitation may be all the incentive they need. Michael Robbins, guest speaker and Special Assistant to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, advocated for key strategies like early engagement before conception and making dads feel more welcome in the education discussion. "We should talk about what dads do right," said Robbins. The meeting's other guest speakers, leaders of the Fort Wayne Area Council (FWAC) PTA , galvanized their local units into recruiting dads to join. Julie Klingenberger, President o...