Who Can Volunteer?
 
Welcome to the Volunteer Information page! We appreciate you looking into our volunteer program and are very excited about having such a program in our schools. Volunteering provides the opportunity to directly influence the educational environment of our children.
 
By volunteering, you can enrich a child's school experience and directly influence how they view school and learning. If you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, friend, neighbor, pastor, business person or retired employee from a school system and would like to help, this is your opportunity.
   

When Can I Volunteer?

After you have attended the orientation class and filled out your registration form and interest sheet,
you will be finger printed and a background check will be completed by our local SR Officer.

Background Check/Fingerprints

School Board Policy requires that each volunteer have a background check completed with Tennessee
Law Enforcement. Your name will also be checked against the Sexual Predator List.

Please remember that, as of this time, our district is paying for the fingerprints to be done. If feel that you
can't volunteer at this time, please do not have your fingerprints done. Also, if you are already on a substitute
list for Gibson County School System, you will not have to be fingerprinted, but will have to attend the
mandatory Orientation Class. 

 

 

Volunteer Procedures
Each and every volunteer is to attend a mandatory orientation meeting every year, no exception.

At the time of your orientation class, you will be asked to fill out a Volunteer Registration Form and an Interest Sheet
for each school that you are interested in volunteering. Orientation Class dates will be posted on the website as soon
as they become available.

During your orientation, you will learn of opportunities where you can serve, our policies, procedures, and guidelines. You are required to read the Volunteer handbook, and sign the Registration form verifying that you comply with the terms therein.

 

 

Guidelines and Procedures
included in Volunteering


A volunteer is under the direct authority
of the principal and teacher.

 

Volunteer's Speak:
impacting the community

Where can I volunteer?

Your school!  There are so many opportunities to help in the learning environment of our students.

During the Orientation Class, you will fill out an Interest Sheet and pick out areas where you would like to serve.  It will be up to your Principal to help decide where you will be needed the most.

 

How do I get started?

Contact your school principal or email Ms. Sarah Meals, Volunteer Coordinator


Sarah Meals
Volunteer Coordinator
smeals@k12tn.net


  Click here for your copy of the
     Volunteer Handbook

     Gibson County School District

 
 

To be an effective volunteer:

  •  Be familiar with all the rules, policies, and procedures of GCSSD
    and the Volunteer
    Program.

  • Follow GCSSD’s code of dress, behavior, and language. Remember you will be a role model to some student.

  • You need to arrive on time and only during your schedule time to volunteer.

  • Adhere to all the rules of confidentiality,.

  • Always exhibit positive, supportive and encouraging attitudes.

  • Volunteer to help a teacher with non-instructional tasks.

 


Volunteering is a resource that we are using to help our schools, but please remember that this is a learning environment and the workplace for school staff. Please be mindful of the need to minimize disruptions by:

  • Entering a classroom only if you are volunteering therein.

  • Turning off all cell phones and/or pagers. In case of emergency, give the school phone number to your family while you are volunteering.

  • Not socializing at the front desk or hallways.

  • Volunteering to help a teacher with non-instructional tasks.

  • Not engaging teacher(s) in a discussion regarding your child. Teachers will be happy to meet with you at a scheduled time

 

 
   
 

"Volunteers at my child's school was a very rewarding experience!"
                               - Rutherford mom




"Everyone should volunteer at their child's school; it's a great way to give back."
                       - Medina dad

 

Volunteering can enrich a child's school experience and directly influence how they view school and learning."
         - Robert Galloway, Superintendent