DavidHillElementary School

TitleIA: School Level Parent Involvement Policy

1. DavidHillElementary School will take the following actions to involve parents in the joint development of its parental involvement plan;

  • Hold a series of accessible meetings with parents and guardians to develop and review the parental involvement policy striving to include representation from those who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, are migratory, or are of any racial, cultural or ethnic minority background.

2. DavidHillElementary School will take the following actions to involve parents in the process of school review improvement:

  • Parents will be involved in the annual review and update of Title I Schoolwide plans
  • Actively recruit parents with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, are migratory, or are of any racial, cultural or ethnic minority background
  • ESL and migratory parents will be included in decision-making related to the needs of their children and the use of Title IC and/or Title III funds.

3. DavidHillElementary School will provide the following necessary coordination, technical assistance, and other support to assist in planning and implementing effective parental involvement activities to improve student academic achievement and school performance:

  • Utilize parent involvement coordinator, Juana Valadez Alvarez
  • Develop protocols for appropriate roles for community based organizations and businesses in parent involvement activities
  • Adopt a model for approaches to improve parent involvement at the school level

4. DavidHillElementary School will coordinate and integrate effective parental involvement strategies and programs. Programs offered at this school include Title I Schoolwide, Reading First, family literacy programs, H.I.P.P.Y programs by:

  • Coordinate written materials to parents regarding these programs
  • Coordinate or share parent involvement activities between Parent Teacher Association and school staff.

5. DavidHillElementary School will take the following actions to conduct, with the involvement of parents, an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of this parental involvement policy in improving the quality of the school’s educational program. The evaluation will include identifying barriers to greater participation by parents in parental involvement activities (with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, are migratory, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background). The school will use the findings of the evaluation about its parental involvement policy and activities to design strategies for more effective parental involvement, and to revise, if necessary (and with the involvement of parents) its parental involvement policies.

  • Use the district parent survey and input provided by the Hispanic Parent Outreach Coordinator to collaborate with school staff, including the Hispanic Parent Outreach Coordinator
  • Parent representatives will evaluate the content and effectiveness of the parent involvement policy and identify the barriers that interfere with participation in the activities provided for parents paying close attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, homeless, disabled, have limited English ability, with limited literacy, are migratory, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background
  • Design more effective strategies for parent involvement based on the results obtained by the evaluation.

6. DavidHillElementary School will build the school’s capacity for strong parental involvement. This will ensure effective involvement of parents and support a partnership among the school, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement. The school will provide assistance to parents in understanding topics such as:

  • Oregon’s academic content standards
  • Oregon’s student academic achievement standards
  • Oregon and local academic assessments including alternate assessments
  • The requirements of applicable federal Title programs
  • How to monitor their child’s progress, and
  • How to work with educators.

The activities to assist parents are described below:

  • Provide focused Title I/ESL parent nights
  • Provide information on district sponsored parent trainings to the David Hill parents
  • Coordinate efforts with the Hispanic Parent Outreach Coordinator

7. The school will provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s academic achievement, such as literacy training, and using technology, as appropriate, to foster parental involvement, by:

  • Provide necessary literacy training for parents from Title I/ESL at family nights
  • Invite presenters from community-based organizations and businesses, including faith-based organizations, in parental involvement activities following district adopted guidelines and curriculum.

8. 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, by:

  • Hispanic Parent Outreach coordinator could provide training for parents to enhance the involvement of other parents

9. The school will, to the extent feasible and appropriate, coordinate and integrate parental involvement programs and activities with Head Start, Reading First, Home Instruction Programs for Preschool Youngsters, and public preschool, and conduct other activities, such as parent resource centers, that encourage and support parents in more fully participating in the education of their children, by:

  • Coordinate written materials to parents regarding these programs
  • Coordinate or sharing parental involvement activities.

10. 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 the 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:

  • Translated printed materials, use of phone trees, providing information on local radio stations, bilingual newspapers, libraries
  • Written materials in understandable language
  • Parent involvement bulletin boards located where parents pick up their children
  • To maximize parental involvement and participation in their children’s education, arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conducting in-home conferences between teachers or other educators, who work directly with participating children, with parents who are unable to attend those conferences at school.

ADOPTION OF THE PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT POLICY

This Parental Involvement Policy has been developed jointly with, and agreed on by parent representatives of children of DavidHillElementary School.

This policy was adopted by DavidHillElementary School on Dec. 15, 2006 and will be in effect for the period of one year. The school will distribute this policy to all parents on or before Feb. 9, 2007.

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Signature Date

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Name: ______Grade: ______Teacher: ______

First Name Last Name

TitleIA: School-Parent-Student Compact

2006-2007

School Responsibilities:

DavidHillElementary School will:

1.) Involve parents in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s

parental involvement policy, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.

2.) Involve parents in the joint development of any schoolwide program plan, in

an organized, ongoing, and timely way.

3.) 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 requirements, and the

right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs. The school will

convene the meeting at a convenient time to parents, and will offer a flexible

number of additional parental involvement meetings, such as in the morning

or evening, so that as many parents as possible are able to attend. The school

will invite to this meeting all parents of children participating in Title I, Part A

programs (participating students), and will encourage them to attend.

4.) Provide information to parents of participating students in an understandable

and uniform format, including alternative formats upon the request of parents

with disabilities, and, to the extent practicable, in a language that parents can

understand.

5.) Provide to 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.

6.) On 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.

7.) Provide to each parent an individual student report about the performance of

their child on the State assessment in at least math, language arts and reading.

8.) Provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has

been taught for four (4) or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not

highly qualified within the meaning of the term in section 200.56 of the Title I

Final Regulations (67 Fed. Reg. 71710, December 2, 2002).

Parent Responsibilities:

We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:

[Describe the ways in which parents will support their children’s learning, such as:

• Monitoring attendance.

• Making sure that homework is completed.

• Monitoring the amount of television your children watch.

• Volunteering in my child’s classroom.

• Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my children’s education.

• Promoting positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.

• Staying informed about my child’s education and communicating with the school

by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either

received by my child or by mail and responding, as appropriate.

• Serving, to the extent possible, on policy advisory groups, such as being the Title

I, Part A parent representative on the school’s School Improvement Team, the

Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the District wide Policy Advisory Council, the

State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Support Team or other school

advisory or policy groups.

Student Responsibilities:

We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the State’s high standards. Specifically, we will:

[Describe the ways in which students will support their academic achievement, such as:

• Do my homework every day and ask for help when I need to.

• Read at least 30 minutes every day outside of school time.

• Give to my parents or the adult who is responsible for my welfare all notices

and information received by me from my school every day.

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School Parent(s) Student

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Date Date Date

(PLEASE NOTE THAT SIGNATURES ARE NOT REQUIRED, BUT APPRICIATED)

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