How does the PTA support staff and teachers at Northwood Elementary?

 

Teacher Enrichment Grants

 

The Mercer Island Schools Foundation and Northwood PTA collaborate each year to award our teachers enrichment grants! Teachers come up with innovative ideas to enrich their students' learning - visiting workshops, inclusive classroom materials and furniture, and field trips to name a few! Enrichment grants are awarded in late Fall. If you would like to participate in Northwood PTA's Enrichment Grants committee, please email vicepresident@northwoodowlspta.org.

 

Are you a teacher ready to give students the best educational opportunities this year? It all begins with teachers dreaming, brainstorming, and planning to make the learning leap off the page.  We can’t wait to see your innovative and creative ideas become a reality for Mercer Island students this year! 

 

Visit the MI Schools Foundation website for more information about the grant process and to download an application.  

 

Teacher & Staff Appreciation

 

Celebrate and thank our amazing Northwood staff at Teacher/Staff Appreciation luncheons and during Teacher/Staff Appreciation Month.  Sign up to decorate our Staff Lounge, bring in homemade goodies to share, and/or help serve lunch to our staff. It is a simple and fun way for us to say “thanks” to our teachers and staff for all they do. Northwood PTA provides 4 staff luncheons a year: a Welcome luncheon at the start of the school year, and others in November, February and during Teacher Appreciation Week in May. If you'd like to help with one of our staff luncheons, please sign up on our volunteer form (link coming soon), or email staffservices@northwoodowlspta.org.

 

Room Parents

Northwood PTA organizes a team of room parents for every classroom. Room parents support the work of our teachers by helping to communicate classroom needs with student families, organize class gifts for their staff, coordinate volunteer opportunities inside the classroom, and lastly, help create classroom celebrations for events such as Valentine's Day and the end of the year. Thank you Room Parents for all that you do! If you would like to volunteer as a room parent, please sign up here.