Hi all - during our current complete-school renovation (YEAH!) our new principal found an extra room that she would like us to turn into a Parent/Family Center. We LOVED the idea! Maybe a place for moms to hang out if they are having trouble disconnecting with their new student. Place for PTO "stuff"! Sign-ups for upcoming PTO events. Copies of textbooks for parents to review, etc... Does anyone have something like this? How does it work? Any ideas?!?
Mary

Hey MaryBerry!! Most of the elementary schools in our district have a Parent Resource Center that is part of the Title I Program. We also have a parent/teacher liason who runs the PRC three days a week. There are computers, games, puzzles, videos, books and all sorts of other cool things available to the parents to borrow. Of course, the computers have to stay there, but parents can check out the other stuff just like in a library. This is also where we hold our executive board meetings during the school day. We love our PRC!!

Mary Berry - sounds just like our school - we are finally almost done with 4 new classrooms to our school and our principal would like to give us one of the free rooms next year as a Parent Volunteer / PTSO room...we are so excited about it. We hope to have a small play area for the preschoolers which will allow many parents with ounger children to come in and help...maybe our laminator in the room along with our die cuts so that we can do projects for teachers all while letting the younger ones run around without bothering anyone...the ideas are endless...we might have a teacher drop off sport for things to be copied, stapeled, etc...there are never ending tasks to be done