Argillite Elementary School

Argillite Elementary School

Policy # 2.32Policy Review Date: December 4, 2014

Required Policy(School Culture Component Committee)

KRS 160.345 NCLB Policy Review Date: December 18, 2014

Title 1, Part A Section 1118Policy Review Date w/Parents Date: March

Policy First Reading Date: 199017, 2015

Policy Second Reading Date: 1990Policy Revision Date: June 23, 2015

Policy Review w/Parents Date: Parent Policy Review Date: April 19, 2016

April 29, 2014

Policy Review Date: June 24, 2014

This policy is reviewed and revised with the help of Parents and Guardians at our annual Title 1 Parent Involvement Meeting!

ARGILLITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SCHOOLWIDE PARENT INVOLVEMENT POLICY

Mission Statement: The mission of Argillite Elementary School is to provide all students with a dynamic, quality education in partnership with families and communities to empower students to excel in a global society.

This policy and the plan to implement it have been developed jointly and in agreement with parents/guardians of students enrolled at Argillite Elementary School. It will be distributed to all parents/guardians at the beginning of each school year.

Policies

Argillite Elementary has thirty three school policies and a set of by laws. These are reviewed every year.

Annual Meeting

Argillite Elementary shall convene an annual meeting at a time convenient for parents/guardians/grandparents that are ALL invited and encouraged to attend. At this meeting, parents will be informed about the school programs and their right to be involved in these programs.

Design Team

Argillite Elementary School will have an action team involving parents, teachers, school staff, the principal, FRYSC, and community members to identify and address parental involvement needs. Program Review committees and Site Based Council have parent members. Letters for comments or suggestions are sent home, asked for at the meeting, and on the web site.

Parent Meetings

Argillite Elementary School will provide parents with information and opportunities to attend parent meetings throughout the school year, beginning with Argillite’s Back to School Picnic withan information booth and teacher booths. The FRYSC Volunteer meeting, AR Family Nights, Annual Title 1 Spring meeting, SBDM meetings, and PTO meetings are examples. Efforts to involve and inform parents include providing parents with resources that enhance parenting skills and understanding of school curriculum and policy.

Policy #2.32 cont.

Parent – Teacher Communication

Argillite Elementary School will address curriculum and school performance profiles that show school progress toward meeting state standards and provide individual student results and interpretation of these results to parents. Parents will be informed of students’ performance by report cards, Map Scores, Star Reading Scores, letters, phone conversations, mid-term progress reports, and agenda books. There are invitations to recognition assemblies, home visits, calendars, and other means. Parent comments, suggestions, and ideas will be requested and encouraged.

Newsletter

Argillite Elementary School will publish a monthly newsletter to provide parents with a constant flow of interesting and timely information about upcoming events and activities, ways to help your child, etc. School-wide activities will be published in the newsletter. Counselor blurbs and Principal notes will be added to this newsletter. Each teacher will send a weekly newsletter home to parents explaining activities, assignments, etc. that are taking place in their classroom. These newsletters will also be posted on the website.

Activities

Argillite Elementary School will encourage parents to become a vital part of the School-wide program several ways. Becoming a school volunteer, active participation in our Parent-Teacher Organization, attending trainings and meetings open to parents, assisting with review and/or revisions on the Parent Involvement Policy and Home School Learning Compact, membership on advisory committees for the SBDM Council, and the Council, itself, are excellent examples.

Student Involvement

Argillite Elementary School will involve students in generating parents’ interest by student participation in school programs. (Examples: projects, subject area fairs, performing in plays or singing, Student Council, Academic Team, AR Family Night, Sharpen the Saw clubs, Leader in Me activities, etc.)

Community Involvement

Argillite Elementary School will involve community members in the School-wide program by inviting community experts to discuss pertinent “topics of interest” and encouraging participation in school programs.Some of these include Grandparents’ Day, Career Day, Spirit Week, Dance Instruction, musical programs, KDMC, Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital,Imel’s Greenhouse, Farm Bureau Insurance, Little Sandy Fire Department, the Woodland Group, and 4H are some examples of community involvement.

School-Home Compact

Argillite Elementary School will jointly develop and revise with parents a Home - School Learning Compact that describes the responsibilities of the school and of the home to assist children to reach high standards.

Argillite Elementary School

Home-School Learning Compact 2016 – 2017

Mission Statement: the mission of Argillite Elementary School is to provide all students with a dynamic, quality education in partnership with families and communities to empower students to excel in a global society. Hence, communication between parents and teachers should be ongoing through:

Parent-teacher conferences/communication
Frequent reports to parents on their child’s progress
Reasonable access to staff, opportunities to volunteer and observe classroom.

Parent/Guardian

I want my child to learn; therefore, I will encourage my child by doing the following:

See that my child has regular attendance at school.
Teach my child to respect self and other people.
Frequently ask my child questions that can’t be answered by yes or no.
Review progress reports with my child and check my child’s assignments.
Use instructional materials the school sends home and online that will enhance my child’s strengths and weaknesses, and check Infinite Campus for my Intermediate student.

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Signature of ParentDate

Student

It is important that I work to the best of my abilities; therefore, I will strive to do the following:

Attend school regularly and care about my school, other people, and myself.
Let my teacher and family know I need help.

Do my best to be proactive.
Work independently, do my assignments and homework, and turn them

in when due.

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Signature of Student Date

Teacher

It is important that students achieve; therefore, I will strive to do the following:

Provide high quality instruction with extra emphasis on greatest needs.
Synergize with parents, students, school personnel, and community.
Monitor and share reports of student progress.
Present the parents with a survey asking for child’s strengths and

weaknesses to better provide for them.

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Signature of TeacherDate

Principal

I support this compact for parent involvement; therefore, I will strive to do the following:

Provide an environment that allows for positive communication between home and school as well as a safe locale for learning.
See that teachers and students are daily using the 7 habits from Leader in Me.
Encourage teachers to assist parents with ideas and materials to use when working with their children.
Provide professional learning for novel research based ways to work on instruction in last year’s problem areas: Math, Writing Process, On Demand writing, and Language Mechanics.

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Signature of Principal