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8th Grade Dance:

Registration:  Melissa Ottes and Erin Drinkwine

Restaurant Dinner Coordinator:  Erin Drinkwine

School Supply Kits: Sarah Brinkmann

Spirit Wear:  Melissa Ottes and Erin Drinkwine

Support Staff Appreciation Week:

Taste of Marshall:  Dawood Harunani – ifilldk@aol.com and Salima Harunani – salimadh@aol.com

Teacher Appreciation Week:  

Teacher Conference Dinners (Fall):

Teacher Conference Dinners (Spring):

 

We pride ourselves on our parent involvement here at Thurgood Marshall School. Our volunteers have an enormous impact on our school community and are critical components in sustaining our school activities and projects. Our volunteers are truly making a difference!

Marshall PTO is uses MySchoolAnywhere.com (MSA) to organize volunteers. We advertise the link in the newsletter, on facebook and personal email invites based on the interest form you signed up for at registration. MSA provides an organized, hassle-free online sign-up.

We urge you to visit our Committees page if you are looking for an opportunity that has not been advertised yet and contact the chairperson. If no chairperson is currently available, please contact one of our PTO Board members.

Top 10 Reasons to Volunteer at Thurgood Marshall School

1.) Your student benefits.

When parents get connected to the school, children do better. Research shows children whose parents are involved get better grades, do better on tests and have fewer discipline problems at school.

2.) We make a difference.

Our mission is to create the kind of school community where teachers and administrators can do their best work – and so can our students.  We provide support for our teachers in and out of the classroom.  We provide resources they need.  We help create learning opportunities for students.  We try to build the kind of supportive, caring atmosphere that makes school fun.

3.) We pledge to honor your time constraints.

People are often reluctant to participate because they’re afraid they’ll get pulled into a black hole of never-ending time commitment.  That won’t happen here and we won’t push you to commit more than you want to or are able.

4.) We have fun.

Volunteer work shouldn’t be drudgery.  We accomplish a lot and not everything we do is easy.  But we know we’re not balancing the national debt, either.  We don’t take ourselves too seriously and we try to enjoy ourselves along the way whenever possible.

5.) Meet people who share your passions or interests.

We all have a common bond.  We care about creating the best possible educational experience for our children.  We are neighbors and peers who share many of the same experiences.  And many friendships have developed as a result of those connections

6.) There’s a lot to be done.

These days, schools are asked to do more with less.  Our help is needed more than ever to fill the gaps.

7.) We can match jobs to your interests and abilities.

The work we do covers a broad spectrum; filing and photocopying, planning and executive meetings, writing and editing, working directly with students, managing a budget and cash flow, and lots more.  We encourage creative ideas, and we’re thrilled to have people take on risks that meet their skills and interests.

8.) We’re welcoming.

To us, there are no “outsiders.”  We are people who have come together to work toward common goals.  We couldn’t be happier to have you join us in working toward these goals.

9.) We’re about parent involvement, not fundraising.

In these times of tight budgets, parent groups everywhere are having to fill in the gaps and so are we.  But our number one goal is to get more parents connected to the school.  That’s because more than 300 independent research studies show that building parent involvement in education is the number one thing we can do to create a great school and improve student performance.

10.) This work is very rewarding.

It’s seeing the bright light of learning sparkle in a student’s eye.  It’s seeing the smile that shows we’re making school a little more fun – and a student feel a little more comfortable in a learning environment.  It’s learning that test scores have risen and knowing we played a role.  There are lots of rewards, both big and small, for those who get involved.  Won’t you join us?