Committee Chair: Crystal Bennett and Catherine Partrick

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When a teacher has support and appreciation, s/he is able to do a better job for her/his students, our kids. 

 

The primary goals of element parents are to:

 

1. make every family at BASIS BR Materra feel connected to our community

2. show appreciation to the teachers and staff for their continual hard work and dedication to our children. 

 

We accomplish these goals by serving as communication liaisons between element families, the classroom teacher(s), and the Booster Club, and by organizing teacher gifts and/or hosting appreciation activities for teachers and staff throughout the school year.

 

The responsibility of the Committee Chair includes oversight and coordination of tasks done by fellow committee members as well as:

• Select members of element parent committee from volunteer pool at the beginning of each school year.

• Maintain a list of committee members (name, phone, address, email)

• Organize committee meetings as needed.

• Provide update on committee activities at the general Booster Club meetings.

• Work with other Booster Committee Chairs as necessary to assist with element-specific activities/events.

• Maintain committee budget and track expenditures

• Bring forward concerns or requests to the Booster Club Board for discussion or resolution.

• Submit an End-of-Year Committee Summary report to the Booster Club Board.

 

General working responsibilities for committee members include: (must be a Booster member to be a lead Element parent)

• Attend committee meetings as needed and provide support for committee activities/events.

• Maintain a list of parents and students for assigned element (name, phone number, address, email).

• Send out notifications/reminders to element regarding Booster, school, and classroom activities/events.

• Organize class potluck(s) or play date(s) to get to know each other and facilitate camaraderie among parents and students.

• Help communicate teacher requests. 

• Chaperone field trips.

• Organize element celebrations upon teacher/Booster request.

• Organize the element-donated themed basket (and possibly art project) for The Gala Auction.

• Communicate collective parent/student concerns from your assigned element to teacher, Booster, or school as necessary.

• Work with other Booster committees to accomplish element-specific tasks or recruit volunteers. 

• Collect donations for element activities, group teacher gifts for holidays and/or birthdays, teacher appreciation week activities. 

• Keep a record of any monies/items collected and expenditures and submit any overages or reimbursement requests to the Treasurer.

 

Examples of last year’s activities: 

• Sent reminders via GroupMe app, etc

• Organized Gala Class basket for Gala

• Organized sponsored Teacher/staff luncheons for teacher appreciation week and Thanksgiving pie bar 

• Organized Winter holiday in-school parties

• Collected donations for group teacher gifts

• Worked directly with teachers on class specific projects

• Chaperoned Field trips

• Organized play dates

• Promote quarterly Stock the Pantry - for teachers