Volunteer

Be part of the Renaissance community — volunteer!

Renaissance Academy asks that each family volunteer 40 hours.

Volunteer hours can be hours that you spend at the school in classrooms, doing prep-work for teachers, chaperoning field trips, taking work home for teachers, with the FEC programs, on the school board, or when you watch children so another parent can volunteer at the school. We have many ways for you to volunteer, please come join us! 

Signing In

All volunteers must sign in at the front office and receive a visitor badge. 

Background Check

All volunteers must sign in at the front office and receive a visitor badge. For the safety of our children, parents and others wishing to volunteer must complete a background check. The background check form can be found on the Policies & Procedures page under "Forms" and at the front office. Please turn in completed forms to the front office prior to the first day of school. Background checks will be valid for 3 years from the date approved.

Background checks are free.

Volunteer Opportunities

In order to fulfill our vision for education, many adults are needed to help in classrooms, serve as after-school volunteers in our after-school programs, work with leadership, etc. At Renaissance Academy, parent (or other family adult) participation is essential. Parents sign and agree to the terms outlined in the Parent Participation Agreement, which brings them to the classroom at least every other week, asks that they serve on a school committee (most with the Family Engagement Committee), and chaperone at least one field trip per child per year. Individual circumstances may change how this agreement is fulfilled. In fulfilling volunteer requests, parents bolster the education process and make experiential learning possible.

Many of the opportunities for involvement will be communicated to parents through the school web site, postings at school and/or school newsletters. Any parents wishing to volunteer in a role that involves significant, unsupervised contact with students will be required to pass a background check. Parents will be encouraged to volunteer in a variety of ways that can include, but are not limited to:

• Classroom Helper
• Tutor/mentor
• Grading Papers
• Field Trips
• School Parties
• Room Parents
• Photocopying
• Lunch Coordinator or Lunch Room Bulletin Board
• Play Ground
• Assemblies
• Library
• Special Productions
• Technology Committee 
• Office Help
• Fundraising
• Parent Organization
• Safety Patrol
• Extra Curricular Activities