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How to Become a Volunteer
All volunteers working with students must have a background check completed and cleared before they can begin.
Please submit this background check form at least two weeks prior to your first day of volunteering and contact your school. Your school must receive confirmation that your background check has been cleared before you may volunteer.
At RPS, we expect our volunteers to be positive role models, set appropriate boundaries, and maintain the privacy of students.
Summer Volunteer Opportunities
Youth and adults can sign up to volunteer in school gardens using the buttons below.
The school garden at the Rochester Alternative Learning Center fuels experiential learning year round and produces hundreds of pounds of food for students, families and community members. It is one of several school gardens that need community volunteers this summer.
Multiple Schools
May 18-22: Trail making, planting flowers and trees, weeding, and landscaping
Join us in celebrating School Garden week at Dakota, John Adams, John Marshall, Willow Creek, and the Rochester Alternative Learning Center.
Franklin Elementary School
May: Planting vegetables
June, July, August: Watering plants and maintaining garden
Franklin Elementary is looking for volunteers with a green thumb to support students as they plant vegetable seedlings in our community garden.
Gage Elementary School
May, June, July, August: Watering plants and maintaining garden
Gage Elementary is seeking dedicated volunteers to help provide our community garden with ongoing care throughout the summer.
Alternative Learning Center
May: Moving rocks, weeding, and spreading mulch
June, July, August: Watering, weeding, spreading mulch, pruning, and harvesting
Help us prepare the ALC school garden, one of our favorite learning spaces where students learn and grow throughout the year.