The Baker Parent Organization provides numerous opportunities to volunteer throughout the school year. Volunteering just two hours over the course of the year makes a tremendous difference to Baker. Contact volunteer coordinator Elisa Goldsmith to share your interest and availability.

The following committees meet throughout the year to manage their particular interests. Each requires a chairperson and committee members.

Admissions
These activities, coordinated by the Director of Admission, occur throughout the year. Baker Open Houses need parents who enjoy sharing the best about the school and feel comfortable fielding a variety of questions from prospective parents. If you wish, you could also lead an individual tour for families who cannot make Open House days.

Booster Club
This group supports the sports-related activities of our older students (fourth through eighth grades). Its work includes running the spring sports banquets, coaching teams, managing the sports bulletin board, and photographing and reporting on events.

Diversity
This committee celebrates the diversity of Baker and its extended communities through year-round activities and an annual diversity potluck.

Environmental Awareness
Through education and outreach to the Baker community, this group cultivates greater understanding of our impact on, and relationship with, the environment.

Integrated Arts
This parent/teacher group arranges various arts opportunities that are integrated into core curriculum studies. It sponsors a number of specific programs throughout the year, including the artist-in-residence program that allows Baker students to work with professional artists.

Library Committee
This committee supports the school library (and the librarians) and organizes the spring children's book drive, book swaps, and other literacy events.

Throughout the year, the Baker Parent Organization sponsors gatherings that bring the entire Baker community together. These events require parental involvement to ensure their success:

Parent Coffees
Parents gather in the morning after children are settled into their classrooms. See old friends and meet new Baker families. Volunteers are always needed to help with set-up and clean-up.

Ice Cream Social
The BPO welcomes families to the new school year in mid-September with an afternoon filled with cool treats and fun. Volunteers are needed to help with set-up and clean-up, ice cream scooping, and student activities.

Parent Socials
Traditionally held at parents' homes, these October gatherings allow parents to get to know each other better during an adults-only evening. Volunteers provide hors d'oeuvres and dessert; the BPO provides drinks.

Baker "Spirit Wear" Clothing Sales
What better way to support the school than by proudly wearing the Baker logo? A Coordinator for clothing sales is needed, as is help with inventory selection. Volunteers are needed to staff tables on the dates clothing is sold.

Pancake Breakfast
In January, the BPO hosts one of the signature events of the year. Enjoy pancakes and fellowship in the Baker cafeteria. The Pancake Breakfast needs an event chair, help with set-up and clean-up, and pancake flippers.

Teacher Appreciation Week
This committee ensures that our faculty and staff receive a luncheon and gifts that show how much we Baker families appreciate them. A coordinator for the week's events is needed, as are parents to provide lunch dishes, breakfast treats, assistance with set-up and clean up, and to perform various tasks during the luncheons.

End-of-Year Picnic
This end-of-year event brings together families to have a good time in the early summer. This event needs a coordinator for the coming school year.

Faculty Meeting Refreshment Committee
The coordinator organizes volunteers to deliver treats for faculty meetings throughout the school year. Treat providers can select one or more specific Mondays and deliver treats for 35-40, homemade or purchased, to the school by the end of the school day (3:15).

Room Parents
Make an ongoing commitment to your child's classroom by being a room parent. Room parents volunteer to help their classroom teacher and to work on the class art project for the Baker Benefit in the spring. A room parent coordinator is also needed to ensure that all room parents act on requests for help made by teachers and administration.

Book Fair
This late-Fall week of book sales supplies much-needed extra funding for our school library. The Book Fair needs a coordinator, help with set-up and clean-up, and volunteers to work shifts at the check-out table.

Greenraising Sale
The BPO kicks off the school year with this sale of eco-conscious household and gift items. The sale needs a coordinator and help tabulating and distributing orders.