Volunteering

Hi parents!  Here is an email we recieved today about volunteers in our classrooms.  I thought it might clear up some questions you may have.  Thanks!



Teachers,




Please, please, please make sure that your parents who are volunteering are CLEARED to volunteer. And this is NOT just for Field Trips. This goes for volunteering in the classroom, in ANY capacity. We cannot stress this enough. If they are NOT cleared by HISD, they are not able to volunteer.

This is a policy coming from the district.



If parents have volunteered in previous years, they will still need to present their ID’s to reactivate their status. And please note that it takes at least a week to verify.



For parents that are new, or have never registered they must do the following:



Go to www.houstonisd.org

Click on Community

VIPS Login

“I have never used this program. Please register me as a new user.”

Disclaimer : YES

It’s a two web page application.



Once registered, parents must immediately present their id’s so that we may complete the process. Again, it takes at least a week to verify once we’ve entered the information from their driver license and/or passport(whichever ID they have).