Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Parents Volunteering Professional Expertise

All --

Please excuse any cross-posting.

Do any of your schools have guidelines in place to clarify relationships =
between the school and parents who volunteer their professional =
expertise to assist on campus projects -- above and beyond the usual =
volunteer hours, in return for tasks that they would normally be =
compensated quite well? I am thinking, for example, of an architect =
parent who gives her time to develop plans for a new classroom, or a =
landscaper parent who spends a great deal of time working on a master =
plan for the school grounds, or a software engineer...you get the drill.=20=


In these economic times, we are seeing more of these school/parent =
relationships, and I am eager to keep them as clear and well-defined as =
possible -- particularly because some of the projects may not come to =
fruition, and it's tough to tell a parent who has put a lot of time and =
professional expertise into a project that, in fact, it might not be =
funded that year.=20

Thanks,

Mitch

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Mitch Bostian
Head of School
The Berkeley School
1310 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702

(510) 665-8800 ex. 102
mbostian@theberkeleyschool.org

www.theberkeleyschool.org

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