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Parent Volunteers

Mandatory Clearances for Volunteers

 

All parent/guardian volunteers are required by law to receive background checks before taking an active role in classroom, PTO or school functions. 
 
 
Categories of Parent Involvement 
Children do better in school when their family takes an active role in their education.  There are many ways to look at Parent/Guardian Involvement, and at least six different categories of involvement have been encouraged by successful schools.  In the Highlands School District, parents/guardians are encouraged to become as active as possible including all these levels of involvement:

 

Parenting level ensuring regular attendance, getting the child to the school bus or to the school building on time, calling to report your child is sick, making certain the child completes homework and assignments, congratulating a childs success and supporting the schools discipline, attending the Open House and Teacher Conference Day

 

Communicating level two way communication includes home-to-school, sending in an excuse or Doctors excuse when a child has missed a day of school, signing the homework planner each night, calling the childs teacher when there is a concern, returning calls from the school, keeping the Emergency Card information current with accurate phone numbers and contact information

 

Volunteering level joining and/or attending the PTO, participating in the school PAC, playground, or other committees, helping with one of the many school-wide student activities, becoming a weekly classroom or office helper, reading in classrooms to groups of children

 

Home learning level working on the class work and homework papers with your child to assess for yourself what your child knows and is able to do, providing the contact with teachers or tutors to assist your child with academic weaknesses

 

Decision making level become involved at the public meetings and open forums of the District-wide Title 1 PAC, joining the PTO Board, working with other families to create an Action Plan for your school

 

            Community collaboration - participate in the Family Literacy
            activities at the school and in the community library and other locations, help to extend
            the contacts that  our Board of  School Directors has developed to involve community
            partners and local businesses in the education programs.