Part I. General Expectations
Each Title I school agrees to implement the following statutory requirements:
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Consistent with ESSA, the school will work to ensure that the required school level parental involvement policies/plans meet the requirements of ESSA, and each include, as a component, a school-parent compact consistent with the provisions of ESSA.
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School will notify parents of the policy/plan in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand. The policy/plan will be made available to the local community and updated periodically to meet the changing needs of parents and the school.
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In carrying out Title I, Part A, parental involvement requirements, to the extent practicable, the school will provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children, including providing information and school reports required under ESSA in an understandable and uniform format and including alternative formats upon request and, to the extent practicable, in language parents understand.
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If the school-wide program plan for Title I, Part A, developed under ESSA, is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children, the school will submit any parent comments with the plan when the school submits the plan to the local educational agency (school district).
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The school will involve the parents of children served in Title I, Part A schools in decisions about how the one percent of Title I, Part A funds reserved for parental involvement is spent, and will ensure that not less than 95 percent of the 1 percent reserved goes directly to the schools.
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The school will build its own and parents’ capacity for strong parental involvement, in order to ensure effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership among the school, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement.
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The school will provide other reasonable support for parental involvement activities under ESSA as the parents may request.
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The school will be governed by the following statutory definition of parental involvement, and will carry out programs, activities, and procedures in accordance with this definition:
Parental involvement means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving students academic learning and other activities, including ensuring -
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that parents play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning;
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that parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school;
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that parents are full partners in their child’s education and are included, as appropriate, in decision-making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child;
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the carrying out of other activities, such as those described in ESSA.
Part II. Description of how schools will implement required school parent involvement policy/components
1. The school will take the following actions to involve parents in the joint
development of its school parental involvement plan under ESSA:
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Seat parents on the BLTs at the elementary buildings where possible so that they may have input on the plan.
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Involve the School Community Liaison in the planning stages so that he/she can reach out to parents for input.
2. The school will take the following actions to involve parents in the process of school review and improvement under ESSA:
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Hold an annual Title I meeting during the conference period in the Fall of the school year. Due to COVID, the annual Title I meeting will be held virtually and housed on the school website.
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Provide a representative from the school to answer questions about the Title I program.
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Provide parents an opportunity to respond to a survey on the academic programs and climate at the end of each school year. These survey results will be utilized to inform decisions for the following school year.
3. The school will hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in Title I, Part A programs, and to explain the Title I, Part A requirement and the right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs. The school will convene the meeting at a time convenient for parents and will offer a flexible number of additional parent involvement meetings, such as in the morning or evening, so that as many parents as possible are able to attend. The school will invite all parents of children participating in Title I, Part A programs to this meeting, and will encourage them to attend, by:
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Holding the meeting in conjunction with Parent-Teacher Conferences
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Advertising on the school website
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Inviting parents to attend in the school’s digital newsletter
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Housing the meeting on the school website to be viewed by the parents at their convenience
4. The school will provide parents of participating children information in a timely manner about Title I, Part A programs that includes a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure children’s progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.
5. The school will at the request of parents, provide opportunities for regular meetings for parents to formulate suggestions and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions about the education of their children. The school will respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible.
6. The school will provide each parent an individual student report about the performance of the child on the State assessment given during the school year.
7. The school will take the following actions to provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified within the meaning of the term of the Title I Final Regulation by:
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Qualified Teacher status to be monitored by Central Office personnel
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A letter will be sent home to the parents through Central Office if ever a student is taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified
8. The school will provide assistance to parents of children served by the school as appropriate, in understanding topics by undertaking the action described in the following:
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the state’s academic content standards,
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the state’s student academic achievement standards,
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the state and local academic assessments including alternate assessments,
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the requirements of Part A,
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how to monitor their child’s progress, and
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how to work with educators.
9. The school will provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s academic achievements, such as literacy training and using technology, as appropriate, to foster parental involvement.
10. The school will, with the assistance of its parents, educate its teachers, pupil services personnel, principals and other staff in how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how to implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between parents and schools.
11. The school will take the following actions to ensure that information related to the school and parent-programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to parents of participating children in an understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon request, and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand:
PART III. Adoption
This policy/plan was adopted in the fall of each school year and will be in effect for the period of one year.
