Committee & Coordinator List
Below are the current committees of the Parent Guild. If you have an idea for a committee and can help coordinate please provide a written description to either the school Director, Stephen Work-Montana stephen@blueoakcharterschool.org, or the Co-Chair of the Parent Council, Portia Ceruti portiaceruti@gmail.com. Please feel free to contact any of the committee chairs if you would like to volunteer or have suggestions. Thank you!
ACTIVE COMMITTEES!
Garden and Grounds
Comprised of a "design team," faculty and administration representatives, project coordinators and work day volunteers this committee will design and then implement the creation of our school gardens and play areas for both Kindergarten and the Grades. They are also involved in daily and long term maintenance of the backyard space.
The Garden and Grounds committee meets the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30 pm in Ms. Bricker's classroom.
Remaining meetings for this school year will be held:
4/14
5/12
6/9
Chair: Tighe O'Neill Tighe.O'Neill@bankserv.com
Communication
Volunteer Activity Coordinator:
Coordinates volunteer needs of school with people who can fulfill those duties. Works closely with the Parent Council, Committee Chairs, Administration and Faculty to assess school needs and source volunteers. Creates a monthly tally of volunteer hours and maintains this database.
Coordinator: Karin Fisk Kfisk707@yahoo.com
In Reach
Facilitates communication between students, parents, teachers, and administrators through the following four gestures. Welcome and orient parents before school starts. Make all public school information is easily/readily available. Announce meetings, events and fundraisers. Coordinate contact lists and communication structure to encourage contact and disperse information.
Co-Chairs: Erica Charlesworth ericacharlesworth@hotmail.com
Portia Ceruti portiaceruti@gmail.com
Out Reach
Looks to ways in which the school can contribute and serve general community needs and seeks to inform the community of the school‟s mission and of events taking place within the school. Involves tabling community events, such as the Endangered Species Faire and World Music Festival.
Needs chair
Fundraising
The chair of this committee maintains the master schedule of the various Parent Guild and class fundraising activities. This person works with the administration, faculty, and Parent Guild to determine fundraising needs each year. Annual fundraising events include the Harvest Festival in October and the May Faire in, well, May. Also this year is the kickoff of a Capitol Campaign fundraising effort to raise money for the backyard renovation. Other fundraising events include school pictures, Thursday “Pizza Day”, Annie B‟s, Box-Tops for Education, Script, and Goodsearch
Chair: Wendy Kaplan wendyoji@gmail.com
Download the Classroom Fundraiser form (PDF)
Green
The committee oversees, with faculty and administration, the waste and recycling program of the school as a whole, finding ways to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible. Also involved is fundraising with CRV beverage containers. The IPM (integrated pest management) program is coordinated with this committee as well.
Chair: Stephanie Ladwig-Cooper permagaia@gmail.com
Election
Oversees elections for the Charter Council board positions, as laid out in the Charter Council Bylaws.
Chair: Chris Grettum clgrettum@yahoo.com
Events
The goal of this committee is to organize, create and implement festival life for the school. The festival committee works closely with the faculty to provide meaningful and enlivened celebrations for the children and parents. Grades 1-8 will each have a parent representative to oversee individual class festival participation. The school festivals provide an opportunity for our school community to join together for wonderful seasonal celebrations. With full participation, our festivals are truly remarkable, and give us a great sense of unity within the school community. Traditional parent organized festivals include a Harvest Festival in October, and May Faire in …..May.
Chair: Summer O‟Neill rubybluesummer@hotmail.com
Site Maintenance and Improvement
Site Maintenance works with the administration and faculty to take care of maintenance of the school building. The chair of this committee coordinates fixing items as they break, provides a working knowledge of what goes where within the building, and assists parents with making sure they maintain and clean any space they use. Also coordinates monthly cleaning of common rooms (kitchens) and upgrade of facilities as needed.
Chair: Kelly Munson munson_k@yahoo.com
COMMITTEES THAT NEED CHAIRS (Please!!!)
People have signed up for these committees, but no one has stepped forward to initiate a meeting. Please don‟t be offended if you haven‟t been contacted, the work still needs to be done and we would love your help! Send an email to the Parent Council Co-Chair, Portia Ceruti portiaceruti@gmail.com, and we will get you started.
Historian
Provides historical documentation of school activities and special events. This is done through pictures, written synopsis or any other creative way to document the school‟s history. Especially important this year as we have our first graduating class!!
Library
Works to create and maintain the school library. Recommends book purchases and library fixtures, catalogs and tracks all library resources. Includes a member from the faculty and any interested parents.
Hospitality
The hospitality coordinator is responsible for organizing hospitality related functions. These may include: providing refreshments and entertainment for school functions and school tours, faculty meals, snacks for students during testing, coordinating housing and transportation needs for out-of-town visitors to the school, et.
Care & Wellness
Group of parents who commit to being at school taking care of children‟s boo-boos. Also helping when a child just needs to take a walk with an adult to cool down and for those children having a bad day.