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Announcements!
PTA Needs You:
To complete the Leadership Team for the next school year, the PTA is hoping a LO parent can step-up for one of these key roles:
* EVP - support the PTA President
* VP of Programs - coordinate events at Live Oak
* Parliamentarian - help with bylaws
* Historian - records activities and achievements of the PTA and collects volunteer hours for PTA meetings and events
If you’re interested in any of these impactful opportunities, contact PTA Nominations Chair at (415) 378-4309
Lunch assistance:
Live Oak is looking for Volunteers to help with Lunch support. If you are available to help, please sign up here
Talent Show
Feb 17 2025
A huge shout-out to everyone who made our recent Live Oak PTA Talent Show a resounding success! All the performances were truly amazing and were filled with creativity and confidence! We're grateful to our wonderful school community for this opportunity!
Special thanks to Mr. Fong, Mr. Shui, the LO staff, and all the volunteers who helped with the planning and execution of this event - Shalini Kosgi, Arthi Vijayakumar, Sri Sudha Pandrangi, Anum Bashir, Suchita Ghosh, Dharshana Eswaran, Shyamala Jayaraman, Sapna Ramanan, Madhvi Owen, Sindhya Govind, Kaushik Rana, Lynette Gomez, Erin Lopez, Neetu Malhotra, Swarnali Basak, Amisha Rai, Arpna Bhola, Akshatha Mahale, Neeta Morankar, Divya Jonnavittula, Sitima Otta, Diane Pham, Shravanthi Mora, Shefali Patel, Shikhamani Das, Ekta Madan, and Lakshmi Thalla.
Fall Book Club
Sept-Dec, 2024
We had a successful fall book club thanks to all the parent volunteers and everyone who participated in the book club. Everyone participated and enjoyed their early morning breakfast. The groups were engaged and had great in-depth discussions with parent volunteers. It was great to hear their feedback on the books as well as what they enjoyed reading this fall book club and their preferences for spring book club. It was a great way for the students to see why it's important to read a variety of books to help them discover new interests and find their favorite book genre,
Many thanks to our librarian Ms LeGate for picking these great books for the students.
A special thanks to our amazing parent volunteers; Madhvi Owen, Dave Maino, Shyamala Jayaraman, and Priyanka Kumari, for their time and dedication to the book club discussions. Thank you Wendy Sanchez for guiding our new team.
Lastly, thank you Nazish Yousuf and Shilpy Kapoor for chairing the event, coordinating the book sessions and arranging the breakfast this season.
Staff Holiday Luncheon
Dec 16, 2024
Thank you for your overwhelming support towards the Teachers and Staff Holiday luncheon! We were able to show our immense appreciation for our teachers and staff due to your contributions. Food was catered from 'The Kebab Shop' restaurant, and holiday treats were also on order. The staff lounge was decorated to usher in the holiday spirit. Thank you to all who volunteered to make this a successful celebration. PTA will be restocking the Teachers Lounge with the remaining funds.
Thank you Shravanthi Mora for chairing the event. Thank you PTA volunteers Sudha Pandrangi, Sapna Ramanan and Suchita Ghosh for helping with the teachers lounge decoration, food pick up and set up.
SRV Council PTA Statement on Inclusive Event Planning
“PTAs everywhere must understand and embrace the uniqueness of all individuals, appreciating that each contributes a diversity of views, experiences, cultural heritage/traditions, skills/abilities, values and preferences. When PTAs respect differences yet acknowledge shared commonalities uniting their communities, and then develop meaningful priorities based upon their knowledge, they genuinely represent their communities. When PTAs represent their communities, they gain strength and effectiveness through increased volunteer and resource support.” CAPTA Inclusion & Diversity
The San Ramon Valley Council of PTAs (“Council”) is committed to supporting our units in their efforts to continue to develop effective family engagement opportunities that are inclusive. PTA leadership, as community representatives, should collaborate with school administration to identify and eliminate barriers to family engagement related to race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, family structure, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and religion.
Council strongly encourages units to offer inclusive events. We value inclusion and diversity of our various communities. Culture, family structure, gender and sexual orientation should not deter participation in PTA events. Families and students should not need to call out their differences to feel included.
Gender-neutral events are more welcoming and culturally inclusive. A majority of units in the SRVUSD have replaced gender-specific events with gender-neutral ones. Parent-child events need not be cancelled; rather, the nomenclature is changing with the times. Units have received positive responses to events such as “Pastries with Parents,” “Family Dance,” “Sweetheart Dance” or “VIP Dance”. These are just a few creative ways to use language to foster inclusion.
PTA stands for “All Children, All Families” and our motto is “Every Child, One Voice.” National and California PTA have long encouraged PTA units to plan events that are inclusive. Inclusive events more effectively serve all children and all families and lead to greater parental and community engagement, which benefits every child. We recommend that unit Presidents collaborate with their principal on inclusive language and events so that students and families are always welcome to events sponsored by the PTA.