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Family Requirements

With your assistance, we are anticipating another wonderful ECHO year! ECHO is a truly cooperative organization and could not function without the help and assistance of the parents.

Attendance at the Parent Night meeting is mandatory for enrollment in ECHO. This is held in September, a few weeks before ECHO begins. Date and location is included in your enrollment email.

All aides arrive by 9:00 AM to determine their classroom assignments for the day and to set up rooms for the teachers. We begin our day with prayer and announcements at 9:20 AM in the sanctuary. It is essential for the success of ECHO that parents and children attend morning prayer and announcements in the sanctuary at 9:20 AM.  This is an important time to prepare us all for the day ahead, as well as keeping families updated on any upcoming events or changes. 

ECHO classes end at 11:55 AM. After the last class at 11:55 AM we have a lunch room upstairs for students to eat a lunch brought from home. ECHO is peanut and tree nut free due to severe allergies. We DO expect parents to help with the clean-up at the end of the lunch period. This includes wiping tables, vacuuming the floor, emptying the trash, and replacing tables to the church's original locations. Aiding hours are generally done by 12:55 PM.

Aiding General Duties

Please come prepared each work day to:

  • Help set up the classroom before ECHO starts for the day, stay in room to help the teacher when she/he arrives.
  • Take roll in each class.
  • Help control behavior in and out of the classroom (Please review the Discipline Policy for more information).
  • Assist the teacher whenever possible: before, during, and after class. Where appropriate, participate in class.
  • Help the younger students to their next classes.
  • Complete and hand out award forms to students as appropriate.
  • After classes are over: clean the room, vacuum, and return tables and chairs to original locations.
  • Clean up lunch area, including vacuuming and wiping all tables, after lunch period.
  • If you bring a cell phone, keep it silenced and put away during class (no texting or web surfing).

Aiding Work Hours

When you aid, you are expected to arrive at the Board Desk, ready to work BY 9:00 AM. We expect that aides will likely be done with their tasks and able to leave by 12:55 PM. With necessary changes that were made to how ECHO is organized and run, one parent from each family is expected to aid every ECHO Friday. ECHO is smaller than pre-2020 and continues to be run by an all-volunteer staff. 

Aiding Notebook

You will need to pick up the Aide Notebook for your scheduled class at the front table after you sign in each week and return it at the end of each day. These notebooks contain important information such as classroom set-up, attendance sheets, discipline forms, tardy forms, and Student Award slips. If it is necessary for you to fill out a discipline form, please alert the board member on duty. 

Fines

A $10 fine may be charged to any aide who is late for aiding. A $40 fine will be charged for a no-show. If a parent is persistently late or fails to show, the board will look at that family’s continued participation in ECHO.

Nursery

Nursery is available to Teacher’s Aides for their own children ages 3 and under on their scheduled work days only. You must make other arrangements for school-aged children and day care children not enrolled in ECHO. Children may not be dropped off in the nursery and left if the parent is not working as an aide that day. Spcae is limited in our nursery.

Blessings to you as you assist us this year!