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You can be involved in your child’s education by being a volunteer or a visitor. A volunteer works within the school programs by interacting with teachers and students directly or indirectly, while a visitor observes his/her child without distracting instructional activities. However, a visitor does not interact with other students. Here is some helpful information for how to be involved.
Volunteers HISD GKG2 (REGULATION) Steps:
(1) VIPS approved (register here) and
(2) sign up for volunteer opportunities with campus contact persons.
(3) Must bring a form of ID or Driver's License
General Guidelines:
- Sign in and out at the front desk.
- Wear a Raptor sticker and a volunteer badge (obtained at the front desk).
- Stay in the area(s) associated with your assignment(s).
- Be nonpolitical when volunteering in the school.
- Keep interactions with teachers and students confidential.
- Use appropriate channels of communication for comments and suggestions.
- Notify the school office if unable to volunteer on their scheduled day.
- Use the Community Room instead of the Teacher Workroom.
- Comply with HISD and school regulations while on campus.
- Please note, you may or may not be working with your own student while volunteering.
- Other guidelines will be posted pending SDMC’s review and approval.
Volunteering with Young Children:To ensure that the young children accompanying parent volunteers are both safe and do not create distractions, the following guidelines will be followed (as per SDMC decision on September 9, 2013):
- Volunteers with young children will sign in at the front desk then work in the Community Room.
- Any materials or instructions needed to complete the assignment will have to be arranged outside of school hours or left in a designated place in the Community Room.
- Completed work will also be left in designated place--not taken directly to the teacher.
- Parents will only supervise their own children (parents are welcome to create off-campus child-care arrangements).
- Parents will supervise children and never leave them unattended in the Community Room.
- If a young child needs to use the restroom, please accompany your child to the restroom in the office area.
- Parents and children will clean up after themselves by returning all supplies and toys to their correct locations.
- It is suggested that you bring water, snacks, and any other "parenting supplies" that can help you make the most of your work time.
- Parent volunteers with children will follow the other general volunteer guidelines, including staying only in areas associated with your volunteer assignment.
- When you are a chaperone on a field trip, you are acting like a teacher. You will be supervising and responsible for the safety of the students assigned to you. Please do not bring other children with you to the field trip.
Visitors- HISD GKC (REGULATION)
(1) Sign in at the front desk with valid photo identification regardless VIPS status.
General Guidelines:
- Sign in and out at the front desk.
- Wear a Raptor sticker (obtained at the front desk).
- Stay in the area where your child is.
- A person wishing to observe a classroom during instructional time or for a parent/teacher conference, must make arrangements in advance with the principal and the teacher. An administrator will present during each visit. The visitor should reframe from interfering with teacher-student interactions during classroom instruction. Field trips are extensions of classroom.
- A designated area is available in the cafeteria for the visitor who wishes to eat lunch with his/her child.
- Please keep your observation of any interaction on campus confidential.
- Other guidelines will be posted pending SDMC’s review and approval.