HiCap Parents Council: Intro to the Council - Group Norms and Expectations

The HiCap Parents Council is a Non-profit organization
- Advocate for community rather than self
- Fiduciary responsibility
- May not advocate for political campaigns
What do we do?
- Create, maintain and/or facilitate Class lists
- Join the PTA and Attend PTA meetings for our designated school
- Attend events such as Info nights, back to school socials, etc at our school
- Send email to class parent reps or to teachers to send info to all parents
- Get to know the principal and front office staff. Useful to get tables at events
- HiCap people can sit on interview process for HiCap Schools
Group Norms
- Do not deal with personal kid issues in district meetings
- Do not lose your temper in district meetings
- Do not schedule a meeting with admins just to vent
- Do not bad mouth admins to the public
- Be aware that all info given to us at district meetings is not always ready to be communicated to public.
Elected officers
- President
- VP
- Secretary
- Treasurer
Committee Heads
- Diversity Committee
  - Work toward a representative population in our district in HiCap
  - Multi language testing
- Webmaster
  - Post Events on website
  - Take Meeting Minutes then post on website when confidentiality has expired (when district announces it, it's public and can be posted)
  - Other relevant docs
- Speaker Organizer
- Election Coordinator
Name tags: about $3 each person
Surveys

Paper lists of attendees at Open houses
Summer events
- EAP Events – EAP reps to organize together or individually
- AAP Events – AAP reps to organize
Technology

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