McKinley 2024-2025

Room Parent Meeting

WELCOME MCKINLEY ROOM PARENTS

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES TO SUPPORT THE CLASS

The 4 C’s of Room Parenting

• Communicate
• Collect
• Celebrate
• Coordinate

Membership Toolkit and Digital Binder

• Communication through Membership Toolkit- make sure to register
• Membership Toolkit Login
• Membership Toolkit Tutorial
• If you’re having trouble, contact technology@mckineybulldogs.com
• Digital Binder *New for Room Parents*
• Room Parent Digital Binder
• Room Parent guidelines
• Templates for emails
• Spreadsheet template for class funds
• Much More!

Money Collection

Class fund guidelines

• Core principles:
• TRANSPARENCY
• SENSITIVITY
• COMMUNICATION
• Best practices:
• Collect all funds ONCE, at start of year
• Keep accurate records of classroom funds to ensure funds are used for classroom
• Request receipts for reimbursements and keep all receipts until the end of the year

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Class Fund Template

Teacher Gifts and Holiday Giving for Non-Classroom Staff

• Teacher Gifts:
• Teacher’s Birthday
• Winter Holiday
• End of the year gift

McKinley Teacher and Staff Favorite Things

• 50 staff who support the school

Class Parties

BSD Wellness Guidelines

• No sodas or sweetened beverage
• No more than 1 sweet treat per party
• No more than 4 celebrations with food

BSD Wellness Guidelines about Class Parties

BSD Healthy Classroom Party Ideas

Other Classroom Volunteer Roles

• Art
• STE(A)M
• Garden
• Library
• Recess
• At Home/Ad Hoc
• Delegate tasks that can be done outside of school hours at home to At Home/Ad Hoc volunteers
• Opportunity for working parents to engage, participate, and volunteer at classroom level

Room Parent Email List 2024-2025

Harvest Festival

The Room Parent’s primary role is to encourage parent participation in the Harvest Festival

• 3 Volunteer Shifts Per Family - 2 festival, 1 set-up/clean-up
• Suggested Grade-Level Volunteer Shifts
• Parent-Volunteer Contest

Auction

• Room parents are NOT required to organize a class art project or basket for the Harvest auction
• Grade-Level Activity Auction Items: Encourage at least one-grade level activity for your class to sponsor and purchase
• The Auction chairs (Julie Callejo, Jaclyn Eng and Tina Chan) will provide draft emails to send to the parents in your class. If you have any further questions please contact harvestfestivalauction@mckinleybulldogs.com

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Yearbook

• Collect and capture classroom “moments” if not from you, from other parents or the teacher
• We need Room Parents help to make sure the Yearbook is inclusive of all the students
• Sort and upload your best class photos from field trips, assemblies, Grade Level Events, parties, etc. to the Google Photos albums
• Work with our Yearbook team to review the grade level pages for completeness and accuracy
• Yearbooks are on sale now and purchases completed by Oct. 31 get 10% OFF
• Online purchase and custom pages must be done by May 5, 2025
• Check out mckinleybulldogs.com/yearbook for more details

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Yearbook Guidelines

Research about Parent Involvement at Schools

MCKINLEY BULLDOGS

Questions?

volunteers@mckinleybulldogs.com

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Thank YOU for being VIPS (Volunteers in Public Schools)!

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