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The Situation
- Critical roles continue to go unfilled.
- TCPG can't continue without a Chair.
- TCPG functions include
- Fundraising to support the school, organizes volunteers to support school events.
- Leads Site Council meetings, where staff, admin and families come together.
- Supporting TC with committee activities.
How You Can Help
- Consider whether you or someone you know might be able to take on one of the critical roles listed below. Could you do it with a partner?
- Reimagine these roles that have become such large jobs. Could you do part of the job?
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Email chair@thorntoncreek.org or communications@thorntoncreek.org if you have any questions, or may be interested in taking, or sharing one of these roles.
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We Can't Continue Without a Chair |
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Thornton Creek Parent Group (TCPG) needs to fill critical director-level positions for next year. Without a chair to lead in 2022-23, it will be impossible to function as a non-profit, impeding our ability to fundraise, allocate resources, collaborate with staff, build community, and all the other ways we support TC.
You — the parents and caregivers! — are an integral part in both shaping the future and the day-to-day success of our school’s amazing programs, activities and classroom support. Our school has a long history of active, engaged parent volunteerism and partnership.
Don't let the term "Chair" scare you away - we're parent volunteers just like you!
You needn’t have experience, just curiosity! TCPG’s board are dedicated parent volunteers who work on everything from fundraising to community building, parent education to child enrichment, gardening to grant writing, and so much more. Join us!
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Critical Roles That Are Vacant |
Chair - MUST BE FILLED - CRITICAL
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Coordinates and facilitates meetings of TCPG and Site Council
- Performs additional acts and duties typical of a presiding officer
Vice-Chair - VERY IMPORTANT
- Supports the chair position, and in the absence or disability of the chair, performs the duties of the chair
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Incoming Board and Committee Leaders |
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Meet the parent volunteers who have stepped up and are ready to continue TCPG's mission - to support the programs and staff at Thornton Creek Elementary School. Show your appreciation by approving the board. Vote at the bottom of this email!
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Roddy Theobald is the parent of rising second grade and kindergarten students at Thornton Creek and served as TCPG treasurer during the 2021-22 school year. He does education policy research for American Institutes for Research in Seattle.
Roddy would appreciate a co-Treasurer. Please email him if you might be interested.
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Jessica Knaster Wasse is a parent of rising 1st and 5th graders. She has previously served on the Health and Safety committee and as a room parent. Jessica has honed her listening and minute taking skills during her career in homeless health care at Public Health. Weekends you will find her baking, attempting to stand up paddle board, taking long walks on the Burke with her dog, or bribing her children to hike.
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Megan and Lisa have co-chaired the After School Enrichment committee for the last 4 years. Next year, Megan will have children in 5th grade and kindergarten, while Lisa will have a 5th grader and a 3rd grader. They are both very excited to get the program up and running again after a long hiatus due to covid.
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Jana Dilley is the mom of two Thornton Creek kids in 2nd and 5th grade. She is a certified arborist and has been a professional urban forester for almost 20 years. She is deeply familiar with landscape restoration and maintenance. As Facilities co-chair since the 2019 / 2020 school year, she has been working with parent volunteers and the District over the past 3 years to renovate the Thornton Creek preschool / K / 1 courtyard and the rain garden / library patio area. She has run more volunteer landscape stewardship work parties than she can count. In her professional life she manages a pollution prevention community engagement team for Seattle Public Utilities, including the City of Seattle's residential urban forestry engagement program, Trees for Seattle, and the Rain Wise program to install rain gardens. She has a passion for getting kids outside and digging in dirt.
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This will be my second year as facilities co-chair. I have been so fortunate to learn and work with Jana Dilley in this facilities role! I have a rising 5th and kindergartener here at Thornton Creek. I appreciate having such amazing green space at school, and love how this work brings parents and families together to make connections and take care of our beautiful school!
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Sterling Maximo
Sterling is very excited to serve the TC community in a more active way this upcoming year! With a rising 3rd grader, a rising 1st grader and two younger kids who will one day walk the halls at TC, she's very invested in the long-term success of the school. Her goal is to do everything she can to support a truly exceptional learning environment for every student that is sustainable year after year. She loves to play outside in the garden, build things and goof around with her kids and chickens. This will be her first foray into fundraising and she'd love to have a co-chair!
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Christie is the parent of a kiddo entering their 6th year at Thornton Creek, and she has a 7th grader at home as well. She is passionate about equity and the inclusion and integration of kids with disabilities into our communities. She is starting a second year as co-secretary of the Seattle Special Education PTSA. Christie also loves traveling, exploring natural environments, and learning about just about anything. She has a background in molecular biology, and a husband who can identify nearly any mushroom you place in front of him.
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Show Your Support by Voting for
the Incoming Board
Thank You!
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Vote here by 6:30pm, or in person at the next Site Council Meeting*. Join us tonight at 6:30pm via Zoom.
*Because no positions are contested, this is a symbolic vote - a chance to show your support for these parent volunteers. We appreciate your vote!
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Find more information, including current contacts and additional openings here.
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Site Council Officers:
Chelsea Lin, Chair
(unfilled), Vice-Chair
Roddy Theobald, Treasurer
Jessica Prince, Secretary
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