2024-2025 Open Chair Positions
If you would like more information, or see an opportunity you are interested in, please contact our H&SC Co-Vice President Emma Jebara.
OPEN CHAIR POSITIONS:
Bingo Night
Bingo Night will happen once a year during the spring semester. Responsibilities include: MCing the event, logistics/facilities planning, marketing, recruiting volunteers, food offerings/pricing and collecting prize donations. This is a fun event to plan, so grab a friend or two and co- chair the event together.
Carnival
The end of the year just wouldn't be the same without Carnival! Phone calls at the beginning of the year, and then things ramp up toward the end of the school year. You'll line up the volunteers, games, food, and logistics. Works together with Talent show chair.
Champions of Math
Champions of Math is a program that resembles Math Olympiad, the international program designed to stimulate enthusiasm for math by teaching different problem-solving skills and creative approaches to finding solutions. The chair is responsible for all aspects of the program including preparing the materials for each week's class, introducing new problem-solving skills, teaching the class, administering monthly tests, updating the website, and communicating with parents. The classes meet weekly on an afternoon after school and run from October through March. This program is open to all 4th and 5th-grade students.
Cinelux Theater Movie Event
Organize and help promote/fundraise ticket sales for this school wide event in the in the Fall or beginning of the New Year.
Clay Program Co-Chair
Organize and drive the clay program. Coordinate the parent volunteers and train them, help plan projects, order clay, run the kiln. This job requires creativity and patience! A great way to spend time with the kids in class and get to know several parents! You’ll be responsible for several projects/grades throughout the school year.
Cool Cat Auction
Our annual spring fundraiser for adults only. Starting in late fall with a kick-off meeting, it will really ramp up right after the Holiday Break. With a solid team of volunteers (and this one usually isn't hard to recruit for), you can make this fundraiser a huge success! This involves all aspects of a big event – marketing, auction solicitation and management, volunteer recruitment, venue procurement, food selection, decorating... Lots of time involved on this one – but a very fun event to plan!
Corporate Matching
Track people who have donated and the companies that they work for and encourage parents to ask for matching funds as appropriate. This is a great one for someone who works or wants to do something behind the scenes.
Family Movie Night
Soon after school is back in session, we have a family fun night – dinner, socializing, and an outdoor movie. Lots of fun for all! You’ll be responsible for selecting the movie, renting the equipment, ordering food, getting popcorn machines, candy, event marketing... This one is really straightforward and is just a few weeks of work in the fall (in addition to ordering, renting, and setting a date during the spring).
5th Grade Party
Plan a day of fun for the 5th graders at the end of the school year. You’ll select a date and place (traditionally at Saratoga Springs), pre-order food, ensure that the games are all set, handle logistics and communications. Not much work until the end of the school year!
FREE2ME
This position promotes and works with a variety of companies and programs (including eScript and Amazon) to help raise money for Daves. This is a position that can be done at home and on your own time. If you want to help raise FREE money for Daves, this is the job for you.
Fun Run
The kids love this event and parents too! You are responsible for logistics, t-shirts, water bottles, marketing, volunteer recruitment, set-up, snacks for after... it’s a bit of work and it pays off!
Fun Visors
These parents recruit and manage the volunteers that donate their time during our children’s lunch periods. You’re responsible for scheduling, training, monitoring parents, as well as working with school staff to help make lunch safe and fun for our kids. You will also organize fun events throughout the year - Clay Days, Halloween Scavenger Hunt, Thanksgiving Games, Spell for Fun, and The Amazing Daves. This is a year-round program that has a fabulous impact on our kids.
Green Team
The Daves Green Team is a group of students who take a leadership role in identifying and implementing solutions to make Daves a “greener” school. They encourage awareness in students regarding choices they make and how they may impact the environment. You lead the kids in this program. In addition, plan events, projects, and/or activities that will encourage awareness regarding Earth Day/Week.
Hospitality
This team is responsible for coordinating the beverages for the monthly Home & School Club Meetings. They work collaboratively with the Club Secretary on the annual Back-to- School Coffee. They coordinate their efforts with the Teacher/Staff Appreciation Coordinator to plan the annual staff Holiday and End-of-Year Luncheons.
LGEF Captain
This person is our liaison to the Los Gatos Education Foundation. S/he sits on their Board and is highly involved in the LGEF.
Mom’s Night Out
Once a year (twice a year if you want to plan it), moms have the chance to go out and hang with other moms! Plan the menu, procure the venue, get sign-ups, manage the RSVP... Work on this one is minimal and it’s super fun!
Parenting Continuum
As the Daves Avenue liaison to the Los Gatos Continuum Community Alliance (whose mission is to empower parents and to bring awareness and education to help meet the challenges of parenting) you will be organizing parenting education and other resources to our Daves Ave families.
Project Cornerstone
Project Cornerstone is committed to helping all children and teens in Silicon Valley feel valued, respected, and known. Our programs and services help individuals and communities build a web of support around young people so that they grow into healthy, caring, and responsible adults. As a coordinator, you will get training, then implement and continue the asset-building program at our school. There are also opportunities to be ABC readers – volunteers that work in the classroom with the kids.
Room Parent Coordinator Co-Chair
Coordinate and manage the school Room Parents and all communications that should go to them and our children's parents. Manage the program that’s used for calendaring and parent communication.
Safe-Routes-2-School Coordinators
Promoting safety and safety education to our kids and our community. The SR2S Coordinator will attend monthly scheduled SR2S meetings and recruit volunteers to help with events, encouragement, education, and evaluations, such as...student travel tallies, walking and biking assessments, Bike Rodeo event, Walk and Roll to school week, Take it to the streets week, Kindergarten and second-grade traffic safety presentation, helmet giveaways, and more. This is a big job and an important one!
School Play
Fearless play producers! Creative, organized parents run this one. You’ll coordinate with the Blossom Hill committee to produce our school 4th & 5th-grade play – one that’s Broadway-worthy. Lots of work and very fulfilling.
Science Fair
Sparking curiosity in all of our kids! You will work with your committee to promote and plan all of the Daves Avenue Science Fair logistics. From sign-ups to take-down. This is a great way to teach learning can be fun!
Spirit Team
Do you have school spirit? Do you want to see everyone else wearing spirit? This job is for you! You’ll be determining items selected for sale, monitoring orders, possibly updating the website or form, ensuring delivery of items, and presenting/selling the items at school and select events.
Staff Wish List
Work with the staff to help create “wish lists” of items they need/want to help our school go above and beyond. Also, work with other chairs to promote the wish lists at H&SC events; including the Cool Cat Auction.
Talent Show
Don’t forget the Talent Show! It's pretty straightforward and a lot of fun – and a committee makes it easier! The Talent Show chair can be a co-chair of Carnival and will manage the talent show portion including the schedule, the audio and stage setup, emceeing the event, and managing the contestants. Works together with Carnival chair.
Teacher/Staff Appreciation Co-Chair
Coordinate the Home & School Club efforts to show our appreciation to everyone that helps make Daves Avenue a wonderful place to learn. Activities include 1. Staff birthdays (Make sure that the Room Parents know when their teacher’s birthday is coming up or for the non- teaching staff, track their birthdays, and do something special for them.) 2. Appreciation Days: Teacher Appreciation Day (Make sure Room Parents remember this day. Suggest possible ideas to show appreciation from the students) and Administrative Professional’s Day (Do something special on behalf of the H&SC). 3. Appreciation Luncheons – There are generally two of these. One in December and one in May. Coordinate with the hospitality team to provide a fun luncheon.
Yearbook
The yearbook coordinator is a great opportunity to harness your creativity! Plan, design, and implement our hardbound, full-color yearbook. You will work with parents and teachers to take the book from concept to reality. This job involves attending meetings, working with the online memory book program, taking photos, designing the cover and pages, and helping the memory book class reps produce their pages as needed.
FILLED POSITIONS:
Display Boards
This parent helps design and facilitate the creation of display boards for various events throughout the year. If you are creative and have an eye for design, this is a fun way to volunteer!