SAGE PTA is the official SEPTA (Special Education PTA) serving the students, parents, and teachers of Richardson ISD. Our Mission: educate the community, support families, and advocate for students and teachers.
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If you are in RISD and have questions about our PTA, or if if you need parent-to-parent assistance regarding disability needs, gifted needs, or social and emotional wellness, please send us a message at risdsagepta@gmail.com or submit a request online. We are here to support every parent and teacher of students with SAGE needs in RISD!
Membership in our PTA is not required to benefit from our support and activities!
Join us as a member! We need YOU!
We encourage all parents, teachers, and supporters of RISD students with SAGE needs to join the SAGE PTA each year! Membership fees help fund everything we do, and your membership strengthens our voice for every child. Anyone can join: parents, teachers, students, staff, grandparents, caregivers, school board members, neighbors, and other community members! Click here to learn more and join!
Thank you to our 2025 - 2026 sponsors!
Thank you to our 2025 - 2026 sponsors!
We invite you to visit the websites of our business sponsors! Please thank them for their support of SAGE needs!
Family Sustaining Members
Vanessa Pacheco
Family Partners
Joey, Elizabeth, and Brian Kaner
Platinum Business Sponsors
PTA Donors
Prairie Creek Elementary PTA
In-Kind Donors
Kristen Brumbalow
Topgolf DFW - Dallas, entertainment venue
Jason's Deli restaurant, Plano Road in Richardson
Free Play Arcade in Richardson
Target Stores, Richardson and Lake Highlands
Become a Sponsor
Become a business or family sponsor of the SAGE PTA during the 2025-2026 school year! To ensure access for families at all income levels, our dues are low, and we provide need-based membership scholarships. By becoming a sponsor, your family or business helps to cover our expenses and funds activities that support RISD’s SAGE departments, including teacher appreciation.
The SAGE PTA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Please take a look at our sponsorship levels and consider a sponsorship today!
Our sponsorship levels: https://bit.ly/25-26-SAGEsponsorlevels
Become a sponsor today at https://bit.ly/SponsorSAGE2526
Does your school PTA include SAGE?
If your campus PTA board doesn't yet have a SAGE Chair, you can volunteer to serve, or you can help recruit a parent or teacher! In a school's PTA in RISD, having a SAGE Chair ensures that disabilities and learning differences are represented in the activities of the PTA. The details of the role vary depending on the needs at each school. Please see our Resources tab for more information about this role.
The SAGE Chair for the RISD Council of PTAs acts as a liaison between the SAGE PTA and PTA Council while providing training and support for campus SAGE Chairs. Both the Council SAGE Chair and SAGE PTA are here for you! For help in adding or serving as a SAGE Chair at your school, contact sage@risdpta.org.
October, 2022: Letter from the Founding President
October, 2022: Letter from the Founding President
It is my great honor to announce that on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, the Richardson ISD Special and Gifted Education PTA became a new Texas PTA organization in the RISD community. As your new RISD SAGE president, I am so excited to be a part of this moment!
Historically, ensuring that students with diverse learning needs are achieving their highest potential has been a collaborative effort in which parents, students, and educators worked together to provide the best possible education plan for those students with disabilities. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was enacted in the 1970s from a grassroots effort of parents who believed students with different abilities needed to be included in public education settings. That belief has continued to grow and made it possible for all diverse learners, from special to gifted education, to be fully included in all educational programming. After years of these collaborative efforts, we now know that forming an organization like RISD SAGE PTA is a best practice for providing resources and a place for families, students, and teachers to connect.
I could not be more excited or proud that our community in Richardson ISD has come together to build a place for our students with diverse learning needs and their families. This new PTA organization will continue in the same vision of the RISD PTA Council SAGE Chair and the original SAGE mission: to Educate, Support, and Advocate through providing resources, building relationships, and speaking up for our students with special learning needs. I hope you will join us on this journey as we grow! As one of my favorite diverse learners once said, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do much!” - Helen Keller
Beth Sheehan
President, Richardson ISD Special and Gifted Education PTA, 2022-2023
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