The Bernazzani PTO Executive Board meets monthly to plan events, coordinate fundraising, manage the budget, and address school-wide matters. These efforts are supported by the entire Bernazzani parent and caregiver community.
Below are the Board members for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Chair
Ellen Sirull
Co-Chair
Jodie Roper
Treasurer
Nicole Vermillion
Communications Coordinator
Candice Travers
Community Engagement
Jer Newman
Community Engagement
Leslie LaRocca
Citywide PTO Rep
Elisabata Gace
SEPAC Rep
Kathy Sheenan
Curriculum Enhancement
Colleen Doyle
Fundraising Coordinator
Lyndsay Monstur
Fundraising Coordinator
Kelly French
EDI Representative
Melissa Kovach
Fifth Grade Representative
Jill Sabin
Classroom Parent Coordinator
Maeghan Bateson
Website Coordinator
Amanda Alarie
To provide a forum where educational issues of concern to the Charles A. Bernazzani School can be openly discussed and information about curriculum, educational programs, and school goals can be shared.
To provide a structure in which a partnership relationship between parents and teachers can function to support education at the Charles A. Bernazzani School and to provide enrichment in education for its students.
To afford a representative assembly for the expression of the concerns of the Charles A. Bernazzani parents and teachers. This, it will do through the presentation of programs, proposals, and recommendation as well as through mediation. It will make these proposals and recommendations through its Executive Board; if necessary, to the Quincy School Department; and if necessary, to the Quincy School Committee.
To sponsor, support and assist in projects that enrich or contribute to the education, health and general welfare of the Charles A. Bernazzani students.
Meetings
Meeting dates are announced in the Bear Bulletins, on the Bernazzani Families Facebook and are in the calendar posted on this site. They generally occur once a month at 6:30 p.m. in the Bernazzani School Media Center. These meetings are open to any parent or teacher with a child attending the Charles A. Bernazzani School. There is no meeting in the month of December. If school is cancelled on the day that the PTO meeting is scheduled, the meeting is also cancelled.
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