School Engagement Team: Creating, sustaining, and supporting programs and activities functioning within our school community.

• School Leadership Team

  1. Represent the PTO as a family representative

  2. Be present at all school, county, state, or federal activities that require a family representative

• Classroom Representative

  1. Parents who help inform and connect their class families to the PTO

  2. Advocate on behalf of your classroom

  3. Motivate class families to engage in the learning environment

• Grade Representative

  1. Represent classes without a classroom representative

  2. Support school-wide initiatives/events that are grade specific

• Yearbook

  1. Help design, promote, and sell yearbooks

  2. Collect photos and content for yearbooks

  3. partner with the school's efforts to make yearbook successful

• Teacher and Faculty Appreciation

  1. Cultivate a culture of appreciation

  2. Institute activities and movements around appreciation

  3. Manage appreciation through PTO efforts

Events Team: Plan, promote, and execute events sponsored by the PTO or done in partnership with the PTO.

• PTO Standard Events

  1. Grade Dances

  2. Spring Fling

  3. BESt Fall FESt

  4. Family Nights

• Responsibilities

  1. Submit budgets and plan according to approved budgets

  2. Coordinate Vendors

  3. Marketing

  4. Recruit support

  5. Manage/Assign Volunteers

• Create Innovative Events

Finance Team: Accrue, collect, and manage finances, budgets, and tools needed to sustain PTO function.

• • Fundraising Partnership

    1. Finance does not have to run fundraising but partner with each fundraiser to ensure money exchanges, collection, and reporting is done appropriately

  • Accountability and Authority

    1. Ensure ethical and appropriate financial engagement

    2. Follow and create policies that ensure clean audits

  • Reporting

    1. Monthly Balances

    2. Yearly reviews

    3. Provide balances and financial dynamics when asked by any team or entity

  • Taxes

    1. Keep all appropriate documentation needed for accountability

    2. submit taxes on behalf of the PTO

  • Banking

    1. Manage bank-produced checks, debit, and credit cards

    2. Ensure appropriate banking relationships are in place and requirements met

  • Budgeting

    1. Create budgets for each PTO Team

    2. Create a budget for each school year

    3. Govern financial distributions and spending

NCPS Engagement Team : Represent and advocate for the school while being informed about district level dynamics.

• • District Meetings

    1. Attend the School Board Meetings and be prepared to inform the PTO board about what was covered

  • Inform the PTO

    1. Know about district level policies

    2. Understand movements, adjustments, policies, etc

    3. Be prepared to give synopsis about school-impacting information

  • Be an Ambassador and Represent BES/PTO

    1. Be a BES representative for district parent voice positions

    2. Attend special events which require family presence

    3. Speak on behalf of the school when needed

Drive Team: Drive families, the school, and community towards volunteerism, fund raising, engagement, and resource support.

• • Fundraising

    1. Organizing the standard fundraisers

    2. Developing organizational fundraisers

    3. Creating ongoing sources of income

  • Volunteerism

    1. Helping recruit volunteers for PTO

    2. Find volunteer support for school based efforts

    3. Make connections for volunteers and school needs

    4. Lunch Buddies

    5. Teacher Duty Relief and Support

  • Community Connections

    1. Arrange school "adoptions" by businesses and institutions

    2. Establish partnerships for various reasons

  • Resource Support

    1. Discovering available and beneficial resources within our school community

    2. Find, collect, and engage resources