action teams / Volunteer
Aveson families are strongly encouraged to contribute to the community through volunteering. With your time, energy, and commitment, Aveson will be a wonderful place for our kids this year!
Aveson expects that each family complete at least 20 hours of volunteer service per year. We ask that you attend at least one Action Day, help with at least onefundraising event, and spend the rest of your hours doing what you are most passionate about.
Each family member is responsible for tracking their hours. When you volunteer on campus, please sign in at the front desk. There you will find blank Volunteer Log sheets where you will write your child’s name, your name, hours worked, etc. File this sheet in our Volunteer Log binder, alphabetically, by your child’s last name. The next time you volunteer, find your child’s log in the binder and fill in your hours for the day. The binder will be made available on Action Days for you to log hours. When you work off-campus, just download it from here, and put your log sheet in the binder at school periodically, or e-mail it to Volunteers@aveson.org.
Aveson does not have a PTA, instead we have Action Teams. The reason for this is very clear – our parents want action! Action Teams can meet all year long, or come together for a short period of time for a specific purpose. Many of the Action Teams (ATs) will be represented on Campus Action Days – perhaps the Arts AT will have the kiln running, or the Gardening AT will have the rakes and shovels out, or the Fundraising AT will be stuffing envelopes.
The teams are broken into four categories:
- General Operations
- Personalized Learning
- Healthy Living
- Global Leadership/Learning
General Operations:
Performance-
To Provide every child an opportunity to perform on stage, in front of an audience, and to bring school-wide participation musical and theatrical performances to Aveson.
Contacts:
Nina and Bill Malone and Brendan Heffernan- PerformanceTeam@aveson.org
Check out the new Performance Team BLOG
Fundraising-
To raise money for Aveson, specifically the shortfall between our expenses and public revenue. This includes the Annual Fund, Grant Writing, Special Events such as the Spring Soirée and June Jubilee, as well as Painless Fundraising such as Scrip and Merchandise.
To coordinate all of Aveson’s fundraising efforts, including those initiated by other action teams for the support of enrichment programs.
Contacts:
Sidra Golwala - Fundraising@aveson.org and
Sonja Alar - ActionTeams@aveson.org
Maintenance/Grounds
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To complete one large scale campus improvement project a semester.
To provide volunteers for classroom/campus maintenance day a month.
Contact:
Eric Blumberg- MaintenanceTeam@aveson.org
Communication and Community -
To examine, improve and support communication between Aveson staff, classroom liaisons, and action teams, as well as school-to-parent and parent-to-parent. To develop and implement a comprehensive plan for informing and welcoming new families to the Aveson community.
Contact:
Amy Jaecker-Jones - CommunicationTeam@aveson.org
Technology -
To support and improve exciting campus technology.
To bring current/new technologies the students and campus.
Contact:
Brendan Heffernan - TechnologyTeam@aveson.org
Check out the Technology Team BLOG
Personalized Learning
Learning Differences -
To support Aveson’s model of personalized learning by developing and implementing support systems and programs to benefit all students.
Contact:
Jennifer King
- LearningTeam@aveson.org
ELD English Language Development -
Recruiting English Learners to attend Aveson
Contact:
Diane Simonson - ELDteam@aveson.org
Visual Art and Media
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The visual arts are essential to a high quality and balanced education.
Our Goal is to give our students more visual arts opportunities.
Contact: Lulu Vallee Escott - ArtTeam@aveson.org
Music-
Music is life. Our goal is to bring music to life at Aveson.
Contact:
Bill Burnett - MusicTeam@aveson.org
Healthy Living
Outdoor Education
P.E. and Playground-
To inspire, assist and facilitate special programs to keep our students fit and active. To share practical and creative solutions to bring fun & fitness to our playgrounds
Contact: OutdoorEdTeam@aveson.org
Culinary Arts-
To establish the next generation of the culinary arts program at Aveson. To encourage and educate our students about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle including nutritious eating. To break down cultural barriers through exploration of food.
Contact: Anna Schlobohm de cruder - CulinaryArtsTeam@aveson.org
Gardening-
Our mission is to provide educational resources to classrooms, maintain the health of the garden, and eventually grow food for the Aveson table.
Contact: Susan Piskura-Knight and Sybil Gray- GardeningTeam@aveson.org
http://avesongardening.wordpress.com/
Green Environment-
To create and support a green environment at Aveson.
To educate the students.
Contact:
Debra Lemattre - GreenTeam@aveson.org
Global Leadership
Student Travel-
To create and provide students with global travel opportunities (Facilitator Needed).
Contact: StudentTravelTeam@aveson.org
World Language-
To bring Language opportunities to Aveson Students.
Contact: WorldLanguageTeam@aveson.org
Here is more information on the 3-5 World Language Program.