Item Discussed

Actions/Next Steps

Turkey Trot

Lead: Elsie

• Communication timeline
• Do we need people with signs?
• Do we want to schedule stretching warm-ups? → No
• Bake sales
• Hats for everyone

Communications

• ELSIE: Print paper backpack flyers to go out on Tues/Wed
• Send reminders
• KELLY/REBECCA/KRISTEN: prep and sent email and ParentSquare

Supplies

• Get bake sale sign from janitor’s closet shelf
• Bring sidewalk chalk for start/finish signs
• Get Dixie cups & water jug from KRISTEN

Bake Sale

• KELLY: Manage bake table day-of, including cash box, Square, and managing volunteers
• KELLY download square and login to our account
• Solicit table volunteers from crossing guard people group, bakers, and oldest kids
• Make everything $1

Trot Details

• DAVE will wear turkey costume
• Place people with signs only in front of the school at Windsor Street
• Have a line between two flags and ask folks to circle up

Pie Sale

Lead: Caroline

• KRISTEN will send out pie flyer

Holiday Giving

• So far over $1200
• Interesting to see if we raise as much as quickly as last year ; maybe because of tight request window last year

• REBECCA will review data for benchmarks on last year

Communications

• REBECCA will send Kristen the flyer
• KRISTEN to write a more personal note
• Send details about picking up pies on Wednesday only to the folks who buy them
• REBECCA to include in flyer: reminder about giving in turkey trot flyer and a QR code

Fundraising

Lead: Alex

• No luck yet
• Sent emails to big grocery stores

• ALEX: Next plan to call and reach out to smaller local grocery stores; If they say they no longer have budget ask about cycle and approach

Room Parents / Classroom Connectors

Lead: Erin

• Almost all classrooms have a designated parent/connectors
• Good to save parent emails addresses shared with you, as its can be hard to get them again
• Can we send out an opt out vs an opt in?
• Kelly wants ParentSquare to be a tool for parents to connect with one another; this seems like a huge missed opportunity
• Discussed Handbook

• ERIN: Gather names of connectors and share with Kristen
• KRISTEN: Share names of all parent connectors with the entire family mailing list for school-wide clarity
• ALL: In general, good to save email addresses shared with you
• DECEMBER 8th: Kristen and Sujatta holding forum on how to use parent square share for parents
• KRISTEN Connect Kelly and Sujatta over email
• KELLY/REBECCA: Translate essentials of the Parent Connector Handbook into a less overwhelming poster

Teacher Supply Reimbursement

Teacher Liaison Lead: Alexandra

We offer $150 reimbursements

• Grants for educational enrichment

• Project learning
• Math & Art
• Visiting authors and artists
• Class pet
• Professional development

Need to share this information with teachers

• Explore giving a short presentation to staff and teachers about reimbursements at their meetings:

• Grade level team meetings
• All staff meeting was a bit overwhelming

Teachers have been asking for basic things

• What resources ARE available?
• Connect with Genteen as part of a learning session to understand parameters of what school funds and their funding interests/preferences from CPTO

Create clear parameters about what we fund

• Combine interests/preferences of parents with those of school to create parameters about what the CPTO does/does not fund
• Ensure we keep the legal considerations of what is appropriate front of mind; Caroline is an excellent resource for this

What about supporting those who don’t serve the whole classroom?

• Social worker?
• Writing support?
• Classroom teachers co-curricular extras?
• We support needs of those who deal with the whole class at once

Send teachers/staff/paras notice about fiscal support from PTO

• KELLY email Kristen and Genteen to discuss CPTO funding questions and parameters
• LAUREN: Send teachers/staff/paras notice about fiscal support from PTO
• Create clear parameters about what the CPTO does/does not fund

• We support things not covered by the school

• Share our funding parameters broadly with community; explore giving a short presentation to staff and teachers about reimbursements; explore different staff meetings to attend

Meeting Minutes

Lead: Kelly, Secretary

• Last three months of minutes haven’t been posted
• Reshare all minutes, get approval, and post to website

• Reshare all minutes with officers, get approval, and post to website