6:250 Instruction
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Community Resource Persons and Volunteers
The School Board encourages the use of volunteers to: (1) increase students’ educational attainment, (2) provide enrichment experiences for students, (3) increase the effective utilization of staff time and skills, (4) give more individual attention to students, and (5) promote greater community involvement.

Volunteers may be used: 

  1. For non-teaching duties not requiring instructional judgment or evaluation of students; 

  2. For supervising study halls, long distance teaching reception areas used incident to instructional programs transmitted by electronic media (such as computers, video, and audio), detention and discipline areas, and school-sponsored extracurricular activities; 

  3. To assist with academic programs under a certificated teacher’s immediate supervision; 

  4. As a guest lecturer or resource person under a licensed teacher’s direction and with the administration’s approval;

  5. To assist in times of violence or other traumatic incidents within the District by providing crisis intervention services to lessen the effects of emotional trauma on staff, students, and the community, provided the volunteer meets the qualifications established by the Ill. School Crisis Assistance Steering Committee;

  6. As a guest lecturer or resource person under a licensed teacher’s direction and with the administration's approval;  or 

  7. As supervisors, chaperones, or sponsors for non-academic school activities. 


The Superintendent shall follow Board policy 4:175 Convicted Child Sex Offenders; Screening; Notifications, to establish procedures for securing and screening resource persons and volunteers.  A person who is a “sex offender,” as defined by the Sex Offender Registration Act or a “violent offender against youth,” as defined in the Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act, is prohibited from being a resource person or volunteer.   All volunteer coaches must comply with the requirement to report hazing in policy 5:90, Abused and Neglected Child Reporting.


LEGAL REF.: 105 ILCS 5/10-22.34, 5/10-22.34a, and 5/10-22.34b

720 ILCS 5/12C-50.1.Failure to Report Hazing.

730 ILCS 150/1 et seq., Sex Offender Registration Act.

730 ILCS 152/101 et seq.Sex Offender Community Notification Law.

730 ILCS 154/75 et seq., Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth

  Community Notification Law.

730 ILCS 154/101 et seq., Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth

  Registration Act.


CROSS REF.: 4:170 (Safety), 4:175 (Convicted Child Sex Offender; Screening; Notifications), 5:90 (Abused and Neglected Child Reporting), 5:280 (Duties and Qualifications), 8:30 (Conduct on School Property), 8:95 (Parental Involvement)

Reviewed: February 27, 2006, March 24, 2014, June 20, 2023

Adopted: May 15, 2006

Revisions Adopted: September 15, 2008, April 14, 2014, July 31, 2023