|  | Community Family and School Together Welcome to Family and School Together - a partnership at Cambridge Montessori School. The FAST Program was created by the school and parents to enhance our sense of community and support our children and school. This flexible committee structure allows you to get involved as much as you want, when you want.
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Welcoming New Families
Host Families welcome new families into the CMS community and serve as a wonderful resource for families and students throughout the year. Being a host is a great way to meet other parents and children.
Volunteer activities take place throughout the year. Involvement requires making a phone call in the spring to your new family and attendance at the new family picnic in the spring.
Administrative Liaison:
Tracy Kukkonen, Director of Admissions
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Family Activities
Community building events for children and parents to enjoy. In recent years, families have gone apple picking, bowling, ice skating and have put on such events as the Valentines party. This year, we are looking to expand the events and incorporate older children in more service oriented projects.
Takes place throughout the school year. Volunteer activity increases as events approach. Time commitments will be determined as committee decides on calendar of events. You are not required to participate in all events.
Administrative Liaison:
Sara Smith, Assistant Director of Passport
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Financial Aid Fundraiser
This committee will work closely together, along with the development office to brainstorm, procure, and package donations to insure the best possible auction items. Many items are from long-standing donors; every year the Auction Chairs also try to obtain new and exciting items to keep the Auctions fresh.
Details: The Auction takes place in March. Volunteer activity increases from January up until event. Much of this work may be done from home.
Administrative Liaison:
Sarah Mayer Corry, Director of Institutional Advancement
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Diversity Issues
Our Diversity Forum is open to the school community and provides an opportunity to discuss diversity topics which affect us all. The most important goal of the Forum is to foster a more inclusive community. The exploration of issues in an open and honest dialogue enables us to create a sense of belonging to a larger shared community and can also provide us perspectives from many different individuals. Our diversity initiative allows us to celebrate our enormous group diversity as well as heighten our conscious awareness of the similarities that unite us and the differences that define us as individuals.
Meetings of the Diversity Forum take place throughout the school year. Volunteers will help organize and plan meetings and events focused on topics of interest to the CMS community.
Administrative Liaisons:
Lisa Szafir, Assistant Director of Passport
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Parent/Guardian Education Events
Surveys the parent community for current needs and interests related to parent education. Steers the parent community to parenting education opportunities in the area, and coordinates with other schools to plan and sponsor evening events on topics of interest to parents/guardians and, occasionally, the broader community.
Events will take place throughout the school year. Volunteer activity will increase as each event approaches. You are not required to help with all events.
Administrative Liaisons:
Jennifer Haines Butler, Director of Elementary/Middle Schools
Martha Torrence, Director of Toddler/Primary Programs
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Sustainability
This committee addresses sustainability issues and ways to further our education about becoming a “green school.” This committee will also work closely with the Green Streets organization supporting and spreading their message throughout the CMS community.
Monthly meetings will occur throughout the school year. Volunteer activity will be determined based on the committee’s direction.
Administrative Liaison:
Kyla Graves, Assistant Director of Admissions
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