The Hallinan directory, now online
Hallinan Elementary PTO has moved the family directory to Roost. It's private, built for families, and your family is already in it.
Don't see your student?
If you sign in and nothing comes up, the school most likely has a different email address for you. Try any other address your family uses.
Starting kindergarten?
Your student won't be there yet — this year's kindergarten class isn't in the directory. Add your student yourself and you're in: first name, last name, and grade.
New to Hallinan, or still nothing?
Same thing — add your student yourself with their name and grade, then pick their teacher from the list once you're in. If you'd rather someone just sorted it out for you, email the PTO and we will.
Getting in
Go to roost.directory/hallinan
Works in any browser, or download the Roost app for iPhone or Android.
Sign in with the email the school has on file
Your student and your family are already there. Use the same address the school uses to reach you, and you'll accept the terms the first time you sign in.
Add your teacher, your other guardians, and choose what you share
Pick your student's teacher from the list and their class list appears. Add an email for a co-parent, grandparent, or nanny and Roost will invite them. Then set your visibility — email, phone, and address each have their own switch, and you can change any of it later.
Questions? Email the PTO at hallinanpresident@gmail.com and we'll get you sorted.
Your student's class list
Look up the family behind the name your student keeps mentioning. Sort out a ride. Put together a birthday invite list without a chain of texts hunting for the right phone number.
This is the plain, boring thing a directory is for, and at elementary school it's most of what you'll use it for. Every Hallinan family is already in Roost — pick your student's teacher in your profile and their classroom appears alongside them.
Your student's class has its own discussion, just for the families in that class. Ask about the field trip, plan a playdate, find the lost jacket. Clubs, committees and shared circles get one too. School admins and the PTO can moderate, blocks carry over, and you can mute any discussion you don't want alerts from.
Circles — your own private groups
The carpool. The room parents. The birthday invite list. The four families you actually plan weekends with.
You create the group, you choose who's in it, and nobody else at the school can see it or ask to join. A Circle isn't a school group with a sign-up sheet — it's your list, and it stays yours.
Trusted Help — sitters and tutors from our own district
Babysitters, tutors, coaches, and mentors from inside the school community — recommended by parents you know rather than found on the internet.
And it reaches beyond our building. Other Lake Oswego schools are on Roost too, and their older students — the ones who actually babysit and tutor around here — can extend their listings to Hallinan families. Each arrives with a badge showing which school the family is from, so it's clearly a real family in your district.
Roost doesn't vet listings. Every entry is either self-submitted or recommended by another parent. Treat each one like an introduction from a friend: meet, ask questions, trust your judgment.
See who families trust. Every listing shows how many families are interested and how many recommend it, and anyone can see those counts. Recommending someone is one tap, including a teen whose parent listed them.
Talk it over. Trusted Help has its own discussion for Hallinan families, for asking each other who they use and what the going rate is. A vote in the room asks whether it should open up to families at the other Lake Oswego schools on Roost, and everyone can see the tally.
PTO announcements, without the reply-all
PTO email goes out through the directory's own privacy rules. Recipients are never exposed to each other, there is no reply-all thread to escape, and you can unsubscribe in one click.
The PTO can write to everyone, to a single grade, or to one class, without ever building a mailing list by hand or pasting addresses into a spreadsheet.
Your information, your call
Roost is only visible to signed-in Hallinan families. It is not public, not searchable on the web, and never sold or shared with advertisers.
Your family is included in the directory by default, the same as in past years. You accept the terms the first time you sign in, and from there you control what other families see — email, phone, and address each have their own switch. You can be visible to everyone at Hallinan, only to families in your student's grade, or not listed at all.
Privacy is enforced at the database, not just in the app.
One account, every year
Nothing resets in August. Your account isn't rebuilt every year. It carries from kindergarten to first grade to fifth, with no re-registering and no re-entering the same phone number every fall. When your student moves up, their Roost account moves with them.
Questions
Why can't I find my student?
Almost always because the school has a different email address for you than the one you tried — start there. Kindergarten families won't find a student yet either; this year's kindergarten class isn't in the directory. Either way you can add your student yourself with their name and grade, and it takes about a minute.
Will I end up in the directory twice?
No. Anyone added by hand is matched against the school roster by name and grade rather than being added a second time — that is exactly what happened to the families who joined before the roster loaded. Enter your student's name the way the school has it, their full first name rather than a nickname, and the two line up into one record.
Where do I set my student's teacher?
On your profile, under Your children. All fifteen Hallinan teachers are already loaded, so pick yours from the list and your student's class list appears. The roster the school gave us had last year's teachers on it, and everyone moved up a grade, so this is the one thing we'd ask you to fill in yourself. You can leave it blank and come back to it.
Is this replacing ParentSquare?
No. ParentSquare is still where the school and your student's teacher communicate with you — attendance, announcements from the office. Roost is the parent-to-parent and PTO-to-parent side: the directory, the carpool group, the sitter list. The two work side by side.
Am I automatically listed?
Yes — your family is included by default, the same as in past years. You choose what's shared once you sign in, and you can hide individual fields or opt out of being listed entirely.
I have kids at more than one school.
One Roost account covers your whole family. Each Lake Oswego school that uses Roost shows up under the same login.
Do I have to use the app?
No. Roost works in any browser at app.roost.directory. The app is just faster.
I have a question that isn't here.
Email the PTO at hallinanpresident@gmail.com.