Blog About It
Create a private class blog that has a running list of specific classroom volunteer activities. Whether you post the list at the top of your blog’s sidebar or pin it to the top as a lead article, your parents should be able to quickly and easily find the information without having to search. Remove as many barriers for them as possible to ensure a higher success rate of acquiring volunteers. Encourage parents to sign-up for your blog’s daily RSS feed, as well. This way when you publish a new story, article, or announcement, it will be pushed to their email inboxes, as well.
Tongass Teacher says
A while ago I blogged about how I use your book bags to send home work for parent volunteers that can’t make it into the classroom. I had one parent volunteer that put together book orders for me and that saved me a lot of time! I plan on sending home a volunteer bag every year now 🙂
Tes Macpherson says
Great tips! I’d like to add that we offer a great-value tool for PTAs to publish events and detailed tasks lists, and grow their community organically into a private and secure social network with parent-to-parent messaging and interactive volunteer management. Great for increasing parental involvement, fundraising and community building. Please check us out 🙂 http://www.ptasocial.com
Brandi Jordan says
Great resource! Thanks, Tes!