Magellan Partners for Education – MaP

Alumni Relations – Facilitates communications with Magellan alumni, including through Magellan Alumni Instagram and Facebook accounts, designs and updates bulletin board, and plans the senior meet-up.

Book Fair – Organizes volunteers and vendor for annual book fair.

Bulletin Boards – Assists guidance department with bulletin boards promoting topics to encourage positive character traits.

Carpool Coordinator – Recruits and trains parent volunteers to help with carpool duty.

Community Service – Coordinates with community organizations like Note in the Pocket, Purple Stride and StepUp Ministry to engage Magellan students and families in activities throughout the year, including each grade’s community service project as well as holiday giving and non-profit volunteering.

Cultural Arts – Attends United Arts Council events to view and select artists for enrichment activities. Schedules and promotes artistic enrichment activities throughout the year. Applies for United Arts Council grants and coordinates payments to artists.

Dances – Coordinates dance themes, entertainment, refreshments and volunteers for middle school dances.

Dine Out Nights – Schedules monthly family nights at area restaurants that donate a portion of the proceeds to Magellan.

Directory – Creates and sends school directory to school communications representative to post on the website.

Grade Representatives – Coordinate grade level email ist and send out communications to parents. Create sign up geniuses as needed for monthly celebrations, supplies, volunteers and activities. Collect holiday and end of year gift giving. Send monthly email updates to parents with important grade information.

Hospitality – Provides tangible appreciation to teachers and staff throughout the year by coordinating early release lunches, Teacher Appreciation Week, weekly morning treats, staff meeting snacks, coordinating the restocking of the teacher’s lounge, and other events.

Landscaping/Beautification – Manages supplies and volunteers needed at the beginning of the year and in the spring for activities to make the school grounds attractive.

My Hot Lunch Box – Trains vendors at the start of the year (come to the school for deliveries for the first 3 weeks) to make sure vendors and staff understand the process. Create any communication that needs to go out to parents about the MHLB process. Create instructions that need to be posted on the wall for vendor deliveries and parent volunteers. Monitor hot bags and let MaP VP know if new ones are needed. Restock the containers with chick-fil-a sauce
(every other Friday).

MaP Membership/Meet the Teacher – Plans Meet the Teacher (what is included, etc), secures any materials/signage, coordinates set up for Meet the Teacher, recruits volunteers for MaP tables at Meet the Teacher, facilitates MaP membership at Meet the Teacher event, and orders calendar magnets as a MaP gift.

MaP Recruiting – Recruits parents for MaP committees.

Nominating – Develops a slate of officers for the MaP executive board.

Paint – Coordinates volunteers and supplies needed to paint school hallways and rooms after the end of the school year.

Passive Fundraising – Attend Meet the Teacher to pass out flyer with information on how to link school funding programs to Magellan Charter School. Follow up with flyer included in Tuesday folders a few weeks into the year. Coordinate with Magellan Communications Specialists on social media reminders.

Pictures – Supports staff during student picture days.

School Supplies – Coordinates grade-level school supply lists with 1st Day School Supplies, and communicates the sale of school supply-boxes to the Magellan community.

School-Wide Picnic – Arranges the Back to School potluck/picnic for the Magellan community.

Spiritwear – Coordinates buying and selling of school apparel to promote unity and school spirit among Magellan families.

Yearbook – Designs publication, creates publication including collecting pictures, etc as well as coordinates and manages the distribution of yearbooks and collection of funds.

8th Grade Community Meal – Works with teachers and staff to plan the 8th-grade community meal. Includes coordination of the planning committee, parent volunteers, and vendors (food, tables, etc..). Preferably, includes 7th grade parents for longevity.

Helpful Forms

Need to grab a check request form, or want to take a look at the MaP bylaws? Here are a few forms you might need as you work with MaP:

• MaP Bylaws
• MaP Check Request
• MaP Funds Received
• EduTrak

Passive Fundraising

Passive fundraisers are another way to support Magellan Partners in Education (MaP) and the Magellan Charter School. They often ask families to register and designate what school or non-profit organization they would like to support, and do not cost any extra money on behalf of Mariner families. Below are passive fundraising opportunities for MaP and Magellan in which we currently participate.

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• Box Tops for Education
  The Box Tops program is changing to an online program where Box Tops are scanned through their mobile app. You can download the Box Tops app (listed as Box Tops for Education) from the App Store, shop as you normally would, then simply scan your store receipts to find participating products. The app will automatically calculate MaP’s Box Tops earnings online and will send the school a check twice a year! There are still Box Tops to be clipped from products! Box Tops can be turned in at the front office. Please include your student’s grade for the Box Tops grade level contest.

Click here for Box Tops information.

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• AmazonSmile
  Did you know that when you shop on AmazonSmile, you can generate money for the Magellan Charter School? Simply shop with your existing Amazon account through AmazonSmile and designate Magellan Charter School as your charitable organization. Then whenever you shop Amazon through AmazonSmile, Magellan will receive 0.5% of your eligible purchase dollars.

Click here to designate Magellan as your AmazonSmile recipient. 

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• Harris Teeter VIC Card
  Harris Teeter’s Together In Education program gives schools a chance to earn funds when you link your VIC card and shop Harris Teeter brands. When you shop Harris Teeter brands, a percentage of your purchase is donated to MaP. Link your Harris Teeter VIC card to Magellan Charter School (our code is 2090). Friends and family can link to Magellan too. All VIC cards must be relinked each year (August 1).

Click here to link your Harris Teeter VIC card.

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• Lowes Foods Fresh Rewards Card
  Do you shop at Lowes Foods? Link your Fresh Rewards card to Magellan Charter School, and help earn money for MaP while you shop!

Click here to link your Lowes Food card.

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• Publix Partners
  Calling all Publix shoppers! Sign up for Publix Partners through your Publix.com account (if you don’t already have one) and select Magellan Charter School. Then, enter your phone number at checkout each time you make an eligible purchase.

Click here to sign up for Publix Partners.

 

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