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Come Grow with Us!Hill City Elementary Parent Involvement
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Research
• Active parent involvement has a direct correlation to student achievement
• Research suggests that schools would need to add $1000.00 per student to have the same impact as active parent involvement.
• Students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the community benefit from family involvement.
• Parent involvement in early childhood help children succeed in Kindergarten and elementary school.
• Parents may need guidance and assistance on how to effectively help their children at home with school work.
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Research
• Parent involvement will differ based on cultural or ethic groups. This must be considered when planning parent involvement activities.
• School programs must be individualized to meet the specific needs of students, parents, and the community.
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How does parent involvement impact achievement
• Earn higher grades and test scores, and enroll in higher-level programs
• Be promoted, pass their classes, and earn credits
• Attend school regularly
• Have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school
• Graduate and go on to postsecondary education (see A New Wave of Evidence, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 2002)
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How does parent involvement benefit parents?
• Learning ways to be more supportive of the children and their education
• More positive view of teachers and school in general
• Learning how education programs work and how schools work
• Becoming empowered for education.
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How does parent involvement benefit staff?
• Higher expectations of students by parents
• Becoming more effective teachers
• Learning how to understand family views
• Improved morale
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Hill City Elementary View of Parents
• The faculty and staff of HCES believe that the parent is the central contributor to a child’s education. We further believe that parent involvement must be a legitimate element of education and should receive strong focus in the school program.
• The faculty and staff of HCES believe that parent involvement is a process, not a program of activities. We further believe that it requires ongoing energy and effort.
• The faculty and staff of HCES believe that most barriers to parent involvement are found within school practices. They are not found with parents.
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Hill City Elementary View of Parents
• The faculty and staff of HCES believe that parents must be identified and approached individually. Parents are not defined by gender, ethnicity, family situation, education, or income.
• The faculty and staff of HCES believe that successful parent involvement strengthens the bonds between home and school, parent and teacher, parent and school, school and community.
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Pickens County and HCES Vision for Education
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Demographics
• Serves approximately 545 students
• 59.4% students are economically disadvantaged
• School wide Title I school
• Serves a population of 76 students with disabilities including: Autism, Other Health Impaired, Emotional Behavior Disorder, Specific Learning Disability, Visually Impaired, Mildly Mentally Handicapped
• 36 Full time teachers including: Counselor, Learning support specialist, 3 special education, speech language therapist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, Art/Music, Physical Education
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Our families (One size does not fit all)
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Our families (One size does not fit all)
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Road blocks to successful parent involvement programs• Lack of school support for parents involved in the school
• Practices that do not accept the diversity of the modern family and their needs
• Child care issues
• Negative personal experiences with schools in the past
• Hierarchy of personal needs taking over: food, shelter, etc.
• Feeling inadequate in the school environment
• Lack of time
• Unsure of what to do?
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Make the school a family affair
• Calls to new families welcoming them to the school
• Make EVERYONE feel they are part of the school
• Home visits to families (not just those in crisis)
• Encourage families and community to have breakfast and lunch at school
• Increase volunteer opportunities in the school
• Have family events at night and on the weekend
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HCES and how we grow with parents and community
• Hawk Academy
• Hawk Volunteers
• Caterpillar Kids
• Home Visits
• Team 2026
• Feed our Family Project
• C.I.A. (Community in Action)
• Parents as Teammates in the School
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Hawk Academy
• Meets once per nine week grading period
• Teachers provide instruction to parents on CCGPS standards that will taught during the nine weeks.
• Parents participate in a framework activity that is typical of what their student will be assigned during the grading period
• Parents are invited to attend class with their student to observe teaching in the classroom.
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Hawk Volunteers
• Volunteer classes are offered throughout the school year in both day and evening sessions.
• Volunteer class is approximately 30 minutes in length
• Volunteers are required to take part in a “no charge” background check before volunteering in the classroom
• Volunteer opportunities are tailored to the expertise of parents and community members.
• Examples: tutoring, garden, bulletin boards, media center, CAMP, yearbook, etc.
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Caterpillar Kids
• Meets once per nine week grading period
• Parents and students come to school in the evening for dinner and training.
• Kindergarten staff volunteer their time to assess the pre-kindergarten students and provide a learning opportunity
• Free materials are provided for the students based on their areas of need to take home: flashcards, maniuplatives, etc.
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Home Visits
• Home visits are done on as needed basis by principal and counselor• Welcome to the community
• Provide resources to the family (clothing, food, etc.)
• Welfare checks on students
• Help with paperwork (SPED, enrollment, RTI, Free and Reduced Lunch, etc)
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Team 2026
• Identify at risk kindergarten students
• Match these students with a mentor that will work with them throughout elementary school
• Provide mentoring sessions on a bi-weekly basis
• Provide materials to the family (computer, software, etc)
• Provide community resources as needed to the family
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Feed our Family, GA project
• Began by faculty and staff in 2010
• Provides a free Thanksgiving meal to any community member that wants to participate (not based on financial need)
• Provided at the school with Santa, live music, and door prizes
• Traditionally serves over 1200 meals per year
• Extra food is donated to families in need throughout the school year via our school food pantry.
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C.I.A. (Community in Action)
• Seeks to actively involve community in our school
• Not only a venue for monetary donations
• Service orientated
• Speakers, volunteers
• Good and services to the school
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Parents at Teammates of the School
• Open to parents throughout the school day
• Parents and grandparents are encouraged to have breakfast and/or lunch with their student at school
• Fun family events at school in the evening(movie night, bingo, family dances, family meals, pictures with Santa, craft evenings, Writing fair, Social Studies/Science fair, STEM evening, Fair Arts night)
• Parents are encouraged to call the principal outside of school hours on personal cell to insure open lines of communication.
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Come Grow with Us!Together we can make a difference for every child