Here at election central the votes are in and tallied. The questioned and absentee ballots have been reviewed. We do not have a write-in campaign to consider. And the winner is:
Monthly teacher appreciation lunches: 7 family groups.
Quarterly lunches: 2 groups.
Tied vote: 1 group
Did not vote: 1 group.
Here's what we'll do. There are 8 months left in the school year. The 7 groups that want to do monthly lunches can each do one months, and the other 4 groups can team up to do the remaining lunch.
Some have already requested certain months:
Kate FG: November
Sharon Brooks FG: January
Leigh FG: February
Kass FG: March
Linda FG: May
Others: if I missed your month preference in the reams of email, I apologize.
Martha and I have ordained with our coordinator scepter that the team-produced lunch will be in March, so the combined groups have plenty of time to get organized. So that means:
April: Heidi, Pam, Dagmara and Jean's FGs
Leaving the following groups to choose among the following months. First-come, first-served, by email to me and Martha (please address both so we don't get doubled up):
Caycee, Sharon/Cami
October, December
Sincerely, Charles and Martha
Monday, September 27, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
School-wide Surveys and Teacher luncheons
Hi Everyone,
We have collected a number of the schoolwide surveys that your parents filled out on the Open House nights, but we don't have surveys from all the family groups yet.
These surveys are a way to help us find volunteers for schoolwide activities by looking at what our parents have expressed interest in helping with. This differs from the individual family group surveys which some classes have and some don't, and if they do, they are usually specific to each class. This is why having a standard schoolwide survey will help so much.
Please turn these surveys in as soon as possible by putting them in the "Schoolwide Survey" envelope that is hanging on the small cork board in the Parent Workroom.
The votes regarding the Teacher Appreciation luncheons are slowly coming in from each family group. Please let us know if your family group prefers monthly lunches (one lunch served per family group) or quarterly lunches (groups of classes serve each lunch). We'd like to have all votes in by this Friday, Sept. 24, and we'll have the results for you on Monday, Sept. 27.
Whatever the result of the vote, the important thing is that everyone is included in the decision and we go forward together as a community.
Thanks for all you are doing!
Martha and Charles
We have collected a number of the schoolwide surveys that your parents filled out on the Open House nights, but we don't have surveys from all the family groups yet.
These surveys are a way to help us find volunteers for schoolwide activities by looking at what our parents have expressed interest in helping with. This differs from the individual family group surveys which some classes have and some don't, and if they do, they are usually specific to each class. This is why having a standard schoolwide survey will help so much.
Please turn these surveys in as soon as possible by putting them in the "Schoolwide Survey" envelope that is hanging on the small cork board in the Parent Workroom.
The votes regarding the Teacher Appreciation luncheons are slowly coming in from each family group. Please let us know if your family group prefers monthly lunches (one lunch served per family group) or quarterly lunches (groups of classes serve each lunch). We'd like to have all votes in by this Friday, Sept. 24, and we'll have the results for you on Monday, Sept. 27.
Whatever the result of the vote, the important thing is that everyone is included in the decision and we go forward together as a community.
Thanks for all you are doing!
Martha and Charles
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
School-wide Surveys
Hi Everyone,
There is an envelope labeled School-wide Surveys hanging on the small cork board in the Parent Workroom. Please put the filled out surveys from your Open Houses in this envelope for Charles and I to gather and create a volunteer database for school-wide activities.
Thanks for all of your time and energy!
Martha
There is an envelope labeled School-wide Surveys hanging on the small cork board in the Parent Workroom. Please put the filled out surveys from your Open Houses in this envelope for Charles and I to gather and create a volunteer database for school-wide activities.
Thanks for all of your time and energy!
Martha
Monday, September 13, 2010
Open Houses & Community Assembly meeting
Hi Everyone,
This is a relatively busy week at Chugach with Open Houses and the Chugach Community Assembly meeting.
Open Houses:
Surveys for school-wide events - These surveys are a way for us to gather parent volunteer information for school-wide events. (The surveys were handed out at the PC meeting. A copy is attached if needed)
Please talk with your teachers about the surveys before your Open House and ask to speak for a few minutes at the Open House to explain the surveys to the parents. At the Open House have your parents fill out the school-wide surveys and then return the surveys to Charles or Martha so we can create a database of volunteers for school-wide events.
At the Open House, if any children are brought and are out on the playground, please ask 1-2 parents to supervise them outside. This is obviously for safety reasons.
Chugach Community Assembly meeting this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 6 - 7:30pm.
Sharon B's class responsible for providing 1-2 parents to help with childcare.
On another topic, if you are contacting parents by email, here is an item you can add. The School District would like to let everyone know about an anti-racism speaker, Tim Wise, who will be giving a special free presentation open to parents Tuesday, September 14th 2-4 PM in the ASD Center Boardroom. More information about this is in last Friday's Scoop.
Here's to a great week!
Thanks!
Martha
This is a relatively busy week at Chugach with Open Houses and the Chugach Community Assembly meeting.
Open Houses:
Surveys for school-wide events - These surveys are a way for us to gather parent volunteer information for school-wide events. (The surveys were handed out at the PC meeting. A copy is attached if needed)
Please talk with your teachers about the surveys before your Open House and ask to speak for a few minutes at the Open House to explain the surveys to the parents. At the Open House have your parents fill out the school-wide surveys and then return the surveys to Charles or Martha so we can create a database of volunteers for school-wide events.
At the Open House, if any children are brought and are out on the playground, please ask 1-2 parents to supervise them outside. This is obviously for safety reasons.
Chugach Community Assembly meeting this Tuesday, Sept. 14, 6 - 7:30pm.
Sharon B's class responsible for providing 1-2 parents to help with childcare.
On another topic, if you are contacting parents by email, here is an item you can add. The School District would like to let everyone know about an anti-racism speaker, Tim Wise, who will be giving a special free presentation open to parents Tuesday, September 14th 2-4 PM in the ASD Center Boardroom. More information about this is in last Friday's Scoop.
Here's to a great week!
Thanks!
Martha
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Teacher lunches updated
Hi Everyone,
Charles and I like Aspen's idea of assigning the Teacher Appreciation luncheons to each family group level.
So here are the assignments:
October - Elder Group
November - Middle Group
February - Primary Group
April - Kindy Group
Please let Charles and I know if these assigned months work for your family groups. As Charles mentioned, you can work out
the exact date later when you plan your lunch.
Remember that these luncheons are meant to spread throughout the year our parents' appreciation for our wonderful teachers. That way the official Teachers Appreciation week can be more about our children's appreciation for their teacher.
Please make sure that all your parents have the opportunity to contribute by not only putting up a sign up sheet, but also contacting them via email and/or phone, since some parents don't necessarily see those sign up sheets.
Thanks,
Martha
Charles and I like Aspen's idea of assigning the Teacher Appreciation luncheons to each family group level.
So here are the assignments:
October - Elder Group
November - Middle Group
February - Primary Group
April - Kindy Group
Please let Charles and I know if these assigned months work for your family groups. As Charles mentioned, you can work out
the exact date later when you plan your lunch.
Remember that these luncheons are meant to spread throughout the year our parents' appreciation for our wonderful teachers. That way the official Teachers Appreciation week can be more about our children's appreciation for their teacher.
Please make sure that all your parents have the opportunity to contribute by not only putting up a sign up sheet, but also contacting them via email and/or phone, since some parents don't necessarily see those sign up sheets.
Thanks,
Martha
Scheduling teacher appreciation lunches
Based on the perceived consensus from our meeting Friday, let's try teacher appreciation lunches quarterly, assuming there is enough interest from family groups to pull it off.
Please sign up your family group for one of the four following months by responding to me or Martha, or commenting on the blog. You can work out the exact date later when you plan your lunch. Each date should end up with two or three family groups signed up (11 family groups over 4 lunches). We will post the results to get each of you together with the other family group coordinators volunteering for your month.
October
November
February
April
-Charles
Please sign up your family group for one of the four following months by responding to me or Martha, or commenting on the blog. You can work out the exact date later when you plan your lunch. Each date should end up with two or three family groups signed up (11 family groups over 4 lunches). We will post the results to get each of you together with the other family group coordinators volunteering for your month.
October
November
February
April
-Charles
Notes from the first PC meeting
Parent Coordinator Meeting
Sept 3, 2010
Introductions
Chugach Philosophy and Volunteerism
Our community works when we are all participate = Many hands make light work.
Our job as PCs is to inform parents of volunteer opportunities and to delegate these, encouraging everyone’s participation as an important and integral part of our children’s education at Chugach. Our PCs should not be trying to do it all, nor should the same super-volunteer parents who always fill sign up sheets. One of the main reasons families come to Chugach is because of our unique educational philosophy that depends on parental involvement. Call the parents on this, literally. Use classroom and schoolwide surveys (see below) to reach out (via email or phone) to parents asking them to volunteer for specific tasks they have expressed interest in doing. Invite a somewhat absent parent to join you or another parent in volunteering. Once they’ve volunteered and felt the fun and fulfillment of helping, they’re more likely to feel that they’re part of the Chugach community and volunteer again.
Old business:
Back to School Picnic – Thanks to volunteers – Feedback?
Positive feedback
Next year provide parking info in advance re: 2 hour limit on side street, Overflow parking lot. (Anne Salzer)
Only drawback to tents was occasional water coming down between awnings.
New Parent Orientation - Thanks to PCs who attended
Next year call on PCs to provide baked goods/coffee/tea.
New business:
Scheduled PC meetings: Fridays at 8:30 in Art Room (Multipurpose room if Art week)
- October 8 (Multipurpose Room)
- January 21
- March 25
Still need younger PCs for Sharon B and Sharon Lee.
All PCs are encouraged to help find people to fill these two positions.
Volunteer Surveys for schoolwide events.
- PCs talk with teachers about surveys before Open House and ask to speak for a couple of minutes at Open House about the surveys.
- At Open Houses, PCs explain surveys to parents and get them filled out that night.
- Return surveys to Martha & Charles - Create database of volunteers for school-wide events
- Open Houses: Primary Group on Sept.16, Middle Group on Sept.13,
Upper Group on Sept 15.
PCs need to find a couple of parents to supervise children on playground during each Open House.
Big Simple – Randee Liles and Krista Johnson
Information going out about Big Simple next week
Information to be presented to parents at Open Houses
Halloween Carnival – Saturday, Oct 30 (tentative time: 5:30 – 8p.m.)
Phil Tafs – Carnival
Irene Tresser and Laile Fairbairn – Auction
Teacher Appreciation luncheons – Continue? – Feedback
Liked it but nearing the end of the school year, it begins to feel a little overwhelming.
It’s one more thing that the super-volunteer parents end up signing up to do.
Possible solution: Quarterly teacher luncheons shared by 2 or 3 family groups and calling on parents solicited via email/phone to provide food.
Scoop Newsletters – Children getting the Scoop via email should have red dots next to their mail slots. These kids do not need a paper copy of the Scoop.
PCs inform parents on Open House about reducing paper consumption by getting the Scoop via email and having red dots on their child’s mail slot to signify no paper Scoop needed.
1st Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Sept 14, 6 – 7:30p.m. – Childcare
Meetings are usually held the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
The parent who helped with childcare last year, Warwick King, has volunteered to run the childcare during Assembly meetings again. However, one or two extra parents are needed to assist him, so each family group has been assigned a month to provide parent volunteers to help. Below is the schedule:
September 14 – Sharon Brooks
October – Dagmara
November – Heidi
December – Kass
January – Linda
February – Leigh
March – Kate
April – Pam
May – Sharon Lee
Other items:
- Bulletin board for Chugach philosophy/Overview of school’s educational approach
- Possible Kindergarten Open House to inform Kindy parents about specific Chugach events/fundraisers and Chugach terminology (“Upper”, “Elder/Younger”, etc.)
Sept 3, 2010
Introductions
Chugach Philosophy and Volunteerism
Our community works when we are all participate = Many hands make light work.
Our job as PCs is to inform parents of volunteer opportunities and to delegate these, encouraging everyone’s participation as an important and integral part of our children’s education at Chugach. Our PCs should not be trying to do it all, nor should the same super-volunteer parents who always fill sign up sheets. One of the main reasons families come to Chugach is because of our unique educational philosophy that depends on parental involvement. Call the parents on this, literally. Use classroom and schoolwide surveys (see below) to reach out (via email or phone) to parents asking them to volunteer for specific tasks they have expressed interest in doing. Invite a somewhat absent parent to join you or another parent in volunteering. Once they’ve volunteered and felt the fun and fulfillment of helping, they’re more likely to feel that they’re part of the Chugach community and volunteer again.
Old business:
Back to School Picnic – Thanks to volunteers – Feedback?
Positive feedback
Next year provide parking info in advance re: 2 hour limit on side street, Overflow parking lot. (Anne Salzer)
Only drawback to tents was occasional water coming down between awnings.
New Parent Orientation - Thanks to PCs who attended
Next year call on PCs to provide baked goods/coffee/tea.
New business:
Scheduled PC meetings: Fridays at 8:30 in Art Room (Multipurpose room if Art week)
- October 8 (Multipurpose Room)
- January 21
- March 25
Still need younger PCs for Sharon B and Sharon Lee.
All PCs are encouraged to help find people to fill these two positions.
Volunteer Surveys for schoolwide events.
- PCs talk with teachers about surveys before Open House and ask to speak for a couple of minutes at Open House about the surveys.
- At Open Houses, PCs explain surveys to parents and get them filled out that night.
- Return surveys to Martha & Charles - Create database of volunteers for school-wide events
- Open Houses: Primary Group on Sept.16, Middle Group on Sept.13,
Upper Group on Sept 15.
PCs need to find a couple of parents to supervise children on playground during each Open House.
Big Simple – Randee Liles and Krista Johnson
Information going out about Big Simple next week
Information to be presented to parents at Open Houses
Halloween Carnival – Saturday, Oct 30 (tentative time: 5:30 – 8p.m.)
Phil Tafs – Carnival
Irene Tresser and Laile Fairbairn – Auction
Teacher Appreciation luncheons – Continue? – Feedback
Liked it but nearing the end of the school year, it begins to feel a little overwhelming.
It’s one more thing that the super-volunteer parents end up signing up to do.
Possible solution: Quarterly teacher luncheons shared by 2 or 3 family groups and calling on parents solicited via email/phone to provide food.
Scoop Newsletters – Children getting the Scoop via email should have red dots next to their mail slots. These kids do not need a paper copy of the Scoop.
PCs inform parents on Open House about reducing paper consumption by getting the Scoop via email and having red dots on their child’s mail slot to signify no paper Scoop needed.
1st Assembly meeting on Tuesday, Sept 14, 6 – 7:30p.m. – Childcare
Meetings are usually held the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
The parent who helped with childcare last year, Warwick King, has volunteered to run the childcare during Assembly meetings again. However, one or two extra parents are needed to assist him, so each family group has been assigned a month to provide parent volunteers to help. Below is the schedule:
September 14 – Sharon Brooks
October – Dagmara
November – Heidi
December – Kass
January – Linda
February – Leigh
March – Kate
April – Pam
May – Sharon Lee
Other items:
- Bulletin board for Chugach philosophy/Overview of school’s educational approach
- Possible Kindergarten Open House to inform Kindy parents about specific Chugach events/fundraisers and Chugach terminology (“Upper”, “Elder/Younger”, etc.)
Friday, September 3, 2010
Parent Coordinator Meeting today
Friday, Sept. 3, at 8:30a.m. in Art Room
Look forward to seeing everyone there!
Martha & Charles
Look forward to seeing everyone there!
Martha & Charles
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