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Volunteering at Innovations Academy
We love and welcome volunteers! Volunteering is one way to contribute to the improvement of education for the children of San Diego. Innovations Academy welcomes volunteers who can help in many different ways.
Over the years, the state has increased the requirements on volunteers. We are sorry when this gets in the way of supportive adults who want to give their time to children, especially when they are the parents of our students. Fortunately, humans are resilient. Please let us know how we can help.
Volunteer ideas include but are not limited to:
- Volunteer to work with a specific grade level for a few hours, a day, two days…per week.
- Office support: volunteer to help out in the front office
- Custodial support: volunteer to help maintain our campus
- Lunch Duty: volunteer to work creating a supportive lunch time
Volunteer Requirement Information for Parents
If you are interested in levels 2-4, please email documents to records@innovationsacademy.org or turn in to the front office.
Note: It does not count as volunteering to attend whole school events such as Exhibition Nights, Open House, the school dance, Carnival etc. Therefore, nothing is needed to attend our school events.
Volunteer Requirements
1) Visitors or guests who enter the school for a one-day visit as a guest speaker or class reader.
Requirements:
§ Sign in at the front office.
2) Volunteers on campus who have little or no direct unsupervised exposure or contact with children, and volunteers with classroom exposure who work with children under the direct supervision of school staff.
Requirements:
§ Sign in at the front office.
§ Present a tuberculosis clearance card (good for 4 years)
§ Provide a copy of your California Driver’s License or California ID for identification and to be checked against the California Department of Justice, Sexual Offender (Megan’s Law) website (www.meganslaw.ca.gov).
3) Volunteers, such as chaperones on field trips (not driving children), who work with small groups of children under minimal direct supervision.
§ Sign in at the front office.
§ Present a tuberculosis clearance card (good for 4 years)
§ File a copy of your driver’s license to be checked against the California Department of Justice, Sexual Offender (Megan’s Law) website (www.meganslaw.ca.gov).
§ Present a certificate of completion of the mandated reporter training. There is a free training for volunteers at this link: https://mandatedreportertraining.com/california/ and selecting “JOIN FOR FREE” (black oval)
4) Field Trip Drivers: Volunteers who drive on field trips but do not spend the night.
Requirements:
§ Sign in at the front office.
§ Present a tuberculosis clearance card (good for 4 years)
§ File a copy of your automobile insurance in the front office.
§ File a copy of your driver’s license in the front office for driving and to be checked against the California Department of Justice, Sexual Offender (Megan’s Law) website (www.meganslaw.ca.gov).
§ Provide copy of DMV record obtained at DMV or on their website (search Driver’s Record Request)
§ Present a certificate of completion of the mandated reporter training. There is a free training for volunteers at this link: https://mandatedreportertraining.com/california/ and selecting “JOIN FOR FREE” (black oval)
5) Overnight Volunteers (who work with students unsupervised or who assist on overnight field trips.)
Requirements:
§ Sign in at the front office.
§ Present a tuberculosis clearance card (good for 4 years).
§ Present a fingerprint clearance from the SD County Office of Education.
§ Provide a copy of your California Driver’s License or California ID for identification and to be checked against the California Department of Justice, Sexual Offender (Megan’s Law) website (www.meganslaw.ca.gov).
§ Present a certificate of completion of the mandated reporter training. There is a free training for volunteers at this link: https://mandatedreportertraining.com/california/ and selecting “JOIN FOR FREE” (black oval)
Volunteer Opportunities
If you can volunteer and want to connect, please email IAParents@innovationsacademy.org