Leadership

President – Rebecca Kee rebeccakeepta@gmail.com


Vice President – David Stevenson dstevensonpta@gmail.com 


Secretary – TBD


Treasurer – Tim Kral timkralpta@gmail.com


Our 2023-24 PTA Vision: to create a strong sense of community by engaging everyone inclusively, increase our resources, and support our school staff, all while having fun along the way and training up new PTA leadership.


PTA Support Roles: we really need some volunteers for the following roles in order to make this school year a success! All of them are manageable and our team will support you with anything you need. Please email Rebecca if you can volunteer for one of these positions.

Volunteer Coordinator / Room Parent Liaison – Michal Ettinger – coordinates room parents and volunteers for events/tasks

*Being a room parent is a relatively easy job of just sending email reminders occasionally and checking in with the teacher about any needs, so sign up here!

Fundraising Chair – Tryphena Arthur – coordinates passive fundraising (amazon smile, etc) and active fundraising drives/events

Auction Chair – Sara Meskin – coordinates annual fundraising auction (Pasta Night)

ELAC Liaison – Ana Avilez – help keep the ELAC team and PTA team in communication about events and needs

Yearbook – Ana Avilez – collects photos throughout the year and designs yearbook 

Teacher Gifts – Deborah Thrope – December + May. Organize some meals for staff, manage grade levels collecting $, maybe coordinates a few appreciation activities (ex. posters for teachers)

Graduation – Sacha Xavier Reich – fifth grade parent coordinates a graduation ceremony and sweatshirts

Membership Chair – Jami Manning – manages PTA member sign-ups

Merch – Sally Sharrock – if we want to sell t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, etc. 

Lost & Found – Eric Bucsela – help keep it organized and get unclaimed items donated

Room Parents – one for each classroom serves as a relay between teacher/families about classroom-specific needs such as field trip chaperones, special projects, etc.


PTA Meetings will generally be monthly on the second Tuesday at 7pm on zoom and in-person occasionally if possible.


Communications: we will try to organize our email communications to keep them limited and to-the-point! 


Be an Owl: please support our school and our PTA by being a community-conscious, helpful team member! Remember that we are an all-volunteer team doing our best, so please give us the benefit of the doubt and try to reach out with questions before complaints. Find your ideal ways to contribute and do what you can whether it’s lending a hand at events, making donations, sharing new ideas, and/or taking on a support role!


Fundraising goal for this year: $250,000


Fundraising Calendar:


CALENDAR OF EVENTS


Regular in-person events are what enable us all to spend time together, have fun, and support our school. We have created a calendar of likely DW events this year, contingent on us having enough volunteers to support them, so we are counting on your help to bring this calendar to life! 


We also have a google calendar version of all of these dates available for you to add to your own here



Other events:


Informal coffee + bagel meet-ups on DW yard at drop-off occasionally 

NEED: Folks to volunteer to pick-up Coffee/Bagels in the morning


We have not listed a Book Fair or Taste of Potrero due to the high volunteer needs for those events. Taste of Potrero was a longtime DW fundraiser that involved running a city-class (open to the public, highly produced) restaurant/bar event in pre-pandemic times. For many reasons, including the recovery of the restaurant industry and a shift in everyone’s availability for volunteering, we haven’t brought back Taste of Potrero but we would be happy to discuss it with anyone interested in spearheading it!


We have also not yet listed two teacher-run events: the annual Talent Show and the 4th/5th Spring Play. We hope to support our teachers in organizing those, so stay tuned.


If you have other ideas for events, please let us know!