Communication

The Dover PTO facilitates communication within the Chickering community as well as with the broader Dover community. Our current communication strategy includes:

• Authoring a monthly PTO Newsletter
• Participating in weekly Chickering emails
  Each week, the Chickering administration updates families on school-related announcements.  The Dover PTO uses these emails to remind families of upcoming events and deadlines.  Less paper copies and more "green" communication. 

• Seeking external press coverage
• Posting the minutes of monthly PTO Executive Board meetings
• Creating the Chickering School Directory
  Each year, the School Directory Committee works with Chickering administrators to publish student classroom, bus and contact information as a benefit to the Chickering Community. The Committee works closely with the administrators to ensure accuracy as well as privacy. In 2007, the Committee started running a contest for the Cover of the Directory. Students were asked to illustrate their favorite thing about Chickering. The winning entry becomes the cover for the following year. FAQ
  
• Facilitating communication with working parents
  The Dover PTO strives to be an inclusive organization, one that represents all constituents equally. To facilitate communications with working parents, the PTO established a Parent Liaison.
• Working with Dover Mothers Association and Dover Dads Group
  Dover PTO is fortunate to work with two great organizations to reach parents in town.  The Dover Mothers Association is a critical link to incoming Chickering parents.  The Dover Dads Group maintains an email list to facilitate communications with fathers.
• Creating templates for consistent PTO communications
  To better identify communications and activities of the Dover PTO, a logo and common look-and-feel were developed in 2005. All communications from the PTO now include the logo, and templates were created for our letterhead, memo/flyers in Color and BW versions, and check request form.