1) Sign up for ALL mandatory volunteer hours through the volunteer coordinator BEFORE the semester begins. Students may not begin classes until the parent has signed up for all required hours. Sign-ups will be made available this summer. You will receive notification by email. There are 14 mandatory volunteer hours each semester per family. Waiting until after the semester starts will result in the Volunteer Coordinators assigning shifts to you if you have not let them know you are cashing out.

2) If you are unable to work some/any of the volunteer hours, then the hours can be paid out at $10 an hour. All hours need to be paid by the first day of classes. The money is collected upfront in order to pay someone else to serve those hours. Please pay this money on Orientation day and let the volunteer coordinators know that you are doing this.

3) If you are going to be absent from a scheduled shift, you should

a) make arrangements to switch with someone and then let the volunteer coordinators know.

b) find someone to cover your shift(s) at the rate of $10 per hour and let the volunteer coordinator know. Please make every effort to pay this person the day of if possible. (You will still be credited that volunteer time and will not have to serve any additional hours.)

c) If you just don’t show up you will be charged $20 for the shift, every effort is to be made to find someone to cover for you, by you.

4) Repetitive tardiness will lead to docked minutes and/or payment to the person serving your shift. Please be mindful of the time of others.

Procedures :

a) Please arrive a few minutes early.

b) Please be in position on time.

c) Please be attentive to the students and the task at-hand and not overly socializing with other parents or on on your phone excessively.

d) Let the Volunteer Coordinators know you are here for your shift

5) Volunteer hours are on Signup.com. You will be given the link to the website at the beginning of each semester. Use this link all semester. It is live and the changes made can be seen even as they are being entered into the website.

6) You can also sign up to be a helper in a class. If you decide to go this route, you are committing to be there each week, to help the teacher in whatever capacities the teacher needs. Not to stand in there and hold up a wall.

Being a teachers aide is just that a teachers aide. They are relying on you to help them keep order in the class, to help students with whatever project they are doing at that time, to do bathroom runs if needed so they can continue teaching.

If you can’t be there you need to find a backup helper so the teacher is not all alone.

By signing up to be a teacher helper this is a 14 week commitment.