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Teacher Appreciation Week Sign-Up Sheet

A theme and a crew for each day, plus the setup and cleanup shifts that decide whether the week actually works.

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Teacher appreciation week is five days of small events run by volunteers who mostly sign up for one of them. It fails in two predictable places: nobody signs up for cleanup, and somebody forgets that a school has forty staff members who are not classroom teachers.

This sheet fixes both by writing them down. Every day has a setup line and a cleanup line, and the head count at the top is for staff, not for teachers.

The sheet

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Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week

Week of ______________ Chair ______________ Staff count ______ Dietary needs ______________

Monday — breakfast

Setup 7:00 · cleanup 9:00

Monday — breakfast sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Tuesday — treat cart

Roams classrooms during planning periods

Tuesday — treat cart sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Wednesday — luncheon

The big one · setup 10:30 · cleanup 1:30

Wednesday — luncheon sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Thursday — coffee bar

Morning · needs an urn and someone to run it

Thursday — coffee bar sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Friday — flowers and notes

Student notes collected in advance

Friday — flowers and notes sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Setup crew

Any day · 45 minutes before

Setup crew sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Cleanup crew

Any day · the shift nobody claims

Cleanup crew sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Decorations and signage

Sunday before

Decorations and signage sign-up lines
Line	Volunteer name	Bringing / doing	Phone	Done
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Appreciation week is for every staff member, not only classroom teachers. Confirm the count with the front office before ordering.

Free printable sheet from shiftsteward.com — volunteer scheduling for schools and churches.

Getting it filled

Four things that decide whether it works.

Count staff, not teachers

Custodians, office staff, aides, cafeteria, bus drivers, the nurse, the librarian. Get the real number from the office before you plan quantities — it is usually a third higher than people guess.

Every day gets a setup and a cleanup line

The reason the week feels exhausting to the chair is that they personally did all ten of those shifts. Put them on the sheet as jobs and they get taken.

Ask for specific dishes, not "a dish"

An open call produces nine desserts and no plates. List what the day needs — main, side, drinks, ice, serving spoons — and let people claim a line.

Check dietary needs once, at the top

One line on the sheet, filled in by the office, saves five separate conversations during the week.

When paper stops being enough

Five days, eight crews, and a chair who ends up texting everyone on Sunday night. Online, each day is its own shift with its own minimum, volunteers get a reminder the day before, and the chair can see on Thursday that Friday's cleanup is still empty.

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Keep the sheet. Lose the Thursday phone calls.

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