Orange County Public Schools County Public Schools TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL PLAN
Title I Requirements
1. Include parents in the development and implementation of the school’s Title I Plan.
Activities/Strategies PLC, SAC & PTSA Meetings
Participants Membership open to all parents
Time/Date PLC 4x’s per year SAC & PTSA meet monthly
Evidence of Compliance Agendas, Sign In Sheets, handouts & minutes of meetings
Amount Budgeted N/A
2. Convene an annual meeting, at a convenient time, to which all parents shall be invited and encouraged to attend. Inform parents of their school’s participation in Title I and explain the requirements of Title I, and the parent’s rights to be involved.
SAC, PLC & PTSA Meetings Open House Title I Meeting before Open House Parent conferences, Reading Parent Night, Science Parent Night, Math Parent Night, AVID Parent Night, PTSA, SAC, PLC, Team Social Night, Hispanic Heritage Event, Eighth Grade Parent Night. Child care will be offered at night events when possible.
Principal, Administration, Staff, Parents & Students
Same as above September 14, 2006
Sign In Sheets, Agenda, School/Parent Learning Compacts
N/A
3. Offer a flexible number of meetings, such as meetings in the morning or evening, and provide as needed, with Title I funding, transportation, childcare, or home visits and PTA membership. Highlight the Homeless Program.
All parents are invited to attend
Throughout School Year
Calendars, Newsletters, Sign In Sheets, Agendas, Flyers, Letters, Handouts, Pictures and Minutes of Meetings.
N/A
4. Provide parents of participating children:
• timely information about Title I programs and Homeless Education program. description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet. if requested by parents, opportunities for regular meetings to formulate suggestions
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Title I brochures, parenting pamphlets, flyers, student planners, weekly progress reports, newsletters, curriculum guides, marquee, Progress Reports, Parent notification letters
Throughout the school year
Copies of mail outs, brochures, flyers, pamphlets, newsletters, progress report and report card dates
$ 10,000 Printing costs Postage Student Planners
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and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children, and respond to any such suggestion as soon as practicably possible.
concerning failures mailed home, AIP, ANI, IEP, EPT, LEP, Attendance Conferences, Parent Information on Web Site, K-12 Planet, Title I and SWS Meetings
Activities/Strategies Participants Time/Date Evidence of Compliance Amount Budgeted
Title I Requirements
5. Submit unsatisfactory parent comments on the Parental Involvement Plan.
None at this time
6. Develop with parents a school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the state’s high standards. The compact shall: • describe the school’s responsibility to provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the children served under this part to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards, and the ways in which each parent will be responsible for supporting their children’s learning, such as monitoring attendance, volunteering in the child’s classroom, and participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children and positive use of extracurricular time. address the importance of communication between teachers and parents on an ongoing basis through, at a minimum: • VJB/jej/8/06 parent-teacher conferences in
Develop School/Parent Learning Compact
SAC, PLC and September PTSA
Parent/School Learning Compact
N/A
Utilize Sunshine State Standards, District CAAP, monitoring progress data and SIP
ADDitions, Throughout PIE, teachers, School Year administration,
Walker Curriculum Guide
$2,588 (Printing Cost)
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Student planners, homework hotline, weekly progress reports, newsletters, AIP, ANI, IEP, team
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elementary schools, at least annually, during which the compact relates to the individual child’s achievement. • frequent reports to parents on their children’s progress.
and attendance conferences, letters mailed to students in danger of failing quarterly, Renaissance academic recognition programs.
Title I Requirements
# 6 cont. o implement and coordinate parent programs, and build ties between parents and the school.
Activities/Strategies
Participants
Time/Date
Evidence of Compliance
Amount Budgeted
Curriculum Family Nights, FCAT Family Night, AVID Family Night, Eighth Grade Family Night, Multicultural and Evenings for the Fine Arts
Same as above
7. Ensure effective involvement of parents and support a partnership among the school, parents, and the community to improve students’ academic achievement. The school, assisted by the Special Projects/Title I Department will: • provide assistance to parents, in understanding the Sunshine State Standards and FCAT, monitoring children’s progress and working with educators to improve the achievement of their children. provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve their achievement and to foster parent involvement.
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Distribute Education Materials
All families Throughout are invited to school year attend, guidance, SAFE Coordinator, Resource and Subject Area Teachers, Administration All Parents On-going team meetings, parent conferences, Open House, Team Family Nights, Spring All parents Curriculum Fair, PTSA, SAC, PLC Attendance Meetings
Agendas, flyers, guidance contact sheets, invitations, brochures, purchase orders, letters
Same as above
$1,000 (Training and Workshop Materials/Trainer)
$500 (Cost of Printing)
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• educate teachers, pupil services personnel, principals, and other staff with the assistance of parents, in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how to reach out to communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners. coordinate and integrate, as appropriate, parental Involvement programs and activities with Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, Early Intervention and other Preschool Programs.
Staff Development
On Going
Sign In Sheets
$500 (Cost of materials)
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Invite interested parents as funding permits
Program brochures
Title I Requirements
Activities/Strategies
Participants
Time/Date
Evidence of Compliance
Amount Budgeted
# 7 cont.
• • • train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents. adopt and implement model approaches to improving parental involvement. develop appropriate roles for community based organizations and businesses in parent involvement activities.
Lion’s Club, Jeppeson Vision Quest, Junior Achievement Volunteers, ADDitions Walker Family Service Center Support Programs (Counseling and Healthcare) Same as above
PIE
As Needed
Same as above
N/A
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provide such other reasonable support for parental involvement activities under this section as parents may request.
Open to Eligible Families
As Needed
Same as above
N/A
8. Provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with disabilities, including providing information and school reports in a format and, to the extent practicable, in a language that parents understand. VJB/jej/8/06
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Attach Sign-in sheet
9. The District School parent Involvement Policy was reviewed by parents, staff and community and the group decided to: (Check One) Adopt the current district policy as is. Create our own school policy. Adopt the district policy and make changes.
Total Amount Budgeted:
$14,588
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