Room Parents

If you are interested in serving as a room parent for your child’s classroom, please contact your child’s teacher.

Time required: Ongoing throughout the school year.

Key Responsibilities

Room Parents serve as the communication liaisons between parents, teachers, and the PTO regarding school activities.

• Works with teacher(s) and parents/guardians, as a parent contact and liaison, to build stronger family-school partnerships for a classroom.

• Creates community by planning events for the class and/or coordinating with other grade level Room Parents to plan grade-wide events during the year.

• Collaborates with the teacher(s) to identify how parents can support classroom activities such as field trips, special projects and class events.

• Assists the teacher(s) with clerical needs, such as making copies/collating, stuffing Friday folders, laminating, cutting, etc.

• Recruits parent volunteers, as needed, for various school and PTO events, such as Halloween Boo Bash, STEM Fair, Fun Run, International Night, etc.

• Helps to promote PTO goals, membership and activities on campus.

• Attends the PTO General Membership Meetings on behalf of the classroom.

• Serves as, or assign someone as, the primary event photographer for the classroom.

• Organizes class gifts for the teacher(s) (Birthday, Holiday, and End of Year).

• Organizes efforts for Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week.

Requirements

• All Eaton volunteers must have their fingerprints and a current negative tuberculosis (TB) test on file with Cupertino Union School District (CUSD), complete the Mandated Reporter Training and submit a Volunteer Information & Technology Agreement. Please visit the CUSD Volunteering page for more information on how to become eligible to volunteer within CUSD.

Please reach out to roomparentcoordinator@eatonpto.org with any questions.