And so it goes...

Our Vision
Piedmont Pines will be a scenically beautiful, diverse community dedicated to quality schools, neighborhood safety and living in harmony with our natural environment.

Support For Public Schools

Goal: Support our neighborhood’s public schools
Objectives

• Seek and publicize meaningful ways that residents who do not have children attending Joaquin Miller, Montera or Skyline can help support stronger public schools.
• Increase awareness of the quality educational opportunities available at our public schools to stem the tide of parents opting for private schools for their children.
• Reduce vandalism caused by teenagers during school vacations.

Background
Residents have raised questions about this goal: What role can a neighborhood association play in improving schools? Aren’t parent/teacher associations and school administrators already doing this?
Because the entire community reaps the benefit of top rated schools--or suffers the devastation of poor school performance--then the responsibility to improve our schools rests with each one of us.
To learn more about helping a particular school, e-mail our or  click on the website for a school:

Joaquin Miller Elementary School
Montera Middle School
Skyline High School

Easy ways to support public schools

Sign up for e-scrip
Register your grocery loyalty cards for automatic donations. You can designate a split in your contribution among participating schools

Support school fundraisers & events
Auctions, walk-athons, clean-up days, yard sales--all great ways to get two-way benefit for you and our schools.

Clip your box tops coupons
Every dime counts! Clip off 'Box Tops' coupons from General Mills Products and mail or drop off at Joaquin Miller school office. JM redeems these coupons for 10 cents each. Look for the pink 'box top' coupons on packages of participating General Mills Big G cereals, Betty Crocker® products, Yoplait® products, Lloyd’s® barbeque buckets, Gold Medal® flour, Progresso® soups, Green Giant® frozen meal kits and frozen sides, Old El Paso® products, Totino’s® frozen pizzas and snacks, Pillsbury® refrigerated and frozen products, Pop Secret® popcorn, Gardetto’s® and Chex Mix® snack mixes, Bugles® corn snacks, Cascadian Farms™ cereals.

Participate in Montera's magazine drive
Renew your existing magazine subscriptions at Montera’s office, or say “Yes!” when a Montera student knocks on your door during the fall magazine drive. Montera raises nearly $40,000 a year through its magazine drive because 40% of every subscription dollar goes back to the school.

Volunteer your time and talents
Help out in classrooms, beautify schools, or work behind the scene on administrative tasks or special projects.

Contribute a Wish List item
You might be amazed at the match between what’s in your closets and items a teacher can put to good use: glue gun, colored pencils, markers , or copier paper.