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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

SECTION 1118STRATEGIES / BEST PRACTICESPARENTAL NOTIFICATION UNDER NCLBFEDERAL MONITORING FINDINGS

Liz Roper, Project Director

SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT DISTRICT LEVEL POLICY

WRITTEN POLICY ON PARENT INVOLVEMENT, SCHOOL REVIEW AND IMPROVEMENT

DEVELOPED WITH PARENTS & DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS PROVIDES SUPPORT/ T.A. TO SCHOOLS TO PLAN EFFECTIVE

PARENT ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVMENT/ SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

BUILDS SCHOOLS’/PARENTS’ CAPACITY FOR STRONG INVOLVEMENT

INTEGRATES HEAD START, READING FIRST, EVEN START, PARENTS AS TEACHER,PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS

ANNUAL POLICY EVALUATION LEAS ALLOCATED $500,000 +, PARENTS INVOLVED ABOUT HOW

1% USED IN PARENT INVOLVMENT ACTIVITIES, LITERACY, PARENTING SKILLS

SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL LEVEL POLICY

WRITTEN POLICY IN UNDERSTANDABLE FORMAT DEVELOPED WITH PARENTS AND DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS IN A LANGUAGE PARENTS CAN UNDERSTAND

ANNUAL MEETING AT CONVENIENT TIME PARENTS CAN ATTEND TO DISCUSS TITLE I, PARENT POLICY, AND RIGHT TO BE INVOLVED

OFFER FLEXIBLE NUMBER OF MEETINGS- AM and PM INVOLVE PARENTS IN PLANNING/ REVIEW OF THIS POLICY REGULAR MEETINGS IF REQUESTED BY PARENTS SCHOOL COMPACT DESCRIBING HOW STUDENTS,

PARENTS, AND STAFF WILL SHARE IMPROVED STUDENT ACHIEVMENT AND WAYS PARTNERSHIP IS BUILT BETWEEN PARENTS/SCHOOLS TO HELP CHILDREN ACHIEVE

SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL LEVEL POLICY

DESCRIBE SCHOOL’S RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN SUPPORTIVE AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

ANNUAL PARENT- TEACHER CONFERENCES ONGOING COMMUNICATION AND TIMELY INFORMATION: AT LEAST ANNUAL PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE IN

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FREQUENT PROGRESS REPORTS REASONABLE ACCESS TO STAFF OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER AND PARTICIPATE

SECTION 1118 TITLE I BUILDING CAPACITY FOR INVOLVEMENT

EXPLAIN TO PARENTS: CURRICULUM, ASSESSMENTS, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS, PROFICIENCY LEVELS STUDENTS EXPECTED TO MEET, HOW TO MONITOR A CHILD’S WORK, HOW TO WORK WITH EDUCATORS

PROVIDE MATERIALS AND TRAINING TO HELP PARENTS WORK WITH CHILDREN IN LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY

EDUCATE SCHOOL STAFF HOW TO COMMUNICATE AND WORK WITH PARENTS AS EQUAL PARTNERS

INTEGRATES HEAD START, READING FIRST, EVEN START, PARENTS AS TEACHER, PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS

SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

1 PARENTING: Assist families with parenting and child rearing skills,

understanding child and adolescent development, and setting home conditions that support children as students at each age and grade level. Assist schools in understanding families.

PRACTICES:• Parent education and training (GED, college credit, family

literacy, computer workshops, child development, language classes, cultural diversity).

• Family support programs to assist families with health, nutrition, and other services.

• Home visits.


2 COMMUNICATING: Communicate with families about school programs and

student progress through effective school to home and home to school communications.

PRACTICES:• Ongoing communication resources -email, website,

telecommunications system, electronic language translation, student management software, brochures, mail outs

• Information on learning standards, assessments, child progress reports, school performance, school programs, reading and math tips, homework tips


3 VOLUNTEERING:

Improve recruitment, training, and schedules to involve families as volunteers and audiences in other locations to support students and school programs.

PRACTICES:• Include parent and community volunteers in the

classroom, as reading and math mentors, for cafeteria and bus duty, in sports events, as hall monitors, as language translators, and for fundraisers.

• Enlist parents and community to mentor English Language Learners, special needs, new families.


4 LEARNING AT HOME: Involve families with their children in learning activities at

home, including homework and other curriculum-related activities and decisions.

PRACTICES AT HOME:• Read to your child every day and your child takes turns

reading to you. Ask your child questions about the story and characters, predict the outcome.

• Play a rhyming game. Parent says a word like rat and child rhymes with bat, sat, hat,…

• Homework hotline, place on homework sheet for parent comments


5 DECISION MAKING: Include families as participants in school decisions,

governance, and advocacy through PTA/PTO, school councils, committees, action teams, and other parent organizations.

PRACTICES:• Parents participating on the School Improvement

Committee, Parent Advisory, and Leadership Team• Design school strategies with parents for academic,

attendance, and behaviors.• Use surveys to identify needs.


6 COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY:

Coordinate resources and services for students, families, and the school with businesses, agencies, and other groups, and provide services to the community.

PRACTICES:• Integrate academic and childcare resources such as:

Head Start, Reading First, Family Literacy Programs • Provide information on community resources to help

the child or family with health, housing, food, clothing, employment

CREATE PRACTICES TO ADDRESS

• Fathers actively involved in their child’s education, especially in the middle and high school grades

• Teachers guiding parents to monitor and discuss homework with their children

• District leaders and principals organizing committees that focus on the six type of involvement and conducting evaluations on the activities, and providing workshops on creating partnerships,

SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES

• Bledsoe County- Language translation www.freetranslation.com

• Cleveland City Schools- Key Communicators Network to respond to emails

• Crockett County- Hispanic interpreter • Metropolitan Nashville -Customer Service Center• Grundy County- Grandparent’s Day• Hawkins County- TCAP TIPOFF• Haywood County- AYP on billboards


• Henderson County Schools and Lexington City Schools- annual “A Family Affair”

• Jackson- Madison County- “Jackson Parent” and “Ms. Tennessee Parents and Families” magazine published monthly

• Lebanon Special School District- ELL literacy program• Marion County- Compiles parent/community data• McMinn County- restaurant owners present food

coupons• Clarksville-Montgomery County- The Learning Center


• Putnam County- 1.5 family engagement coordinators• Rutherford County- system wide Parent Advisory

Committee & School Messenger System • Sevier County- TransAct language translation

technology for over 20 languages• Tullahoma City Schools- Sinkways Program” to email

student grades electronically • Warren County- Sales tax holiday collaboration• Wilson County- Parents as Teachers Birth to

Kindergarten Program

TITLE I PARENTAL NOTIFICATION UNDER NCLB

State Report Card Teacher Qualification Child’s achievement on state

assessment Limited English proficiency

programs Schools identified for

improvement, corrective action or restructuring

Supplemental educational services

Parental involvement policy

Safe and drug-free schools programs

National Assessment of Education Progress

Military recruiter access to student information

Homeless children Student privacy Waiver request 21st Century Community

Learning Centers Schoolwide programs

USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY

District and School- Level Parental Involvement Policies

Policies were not current Policies did not include required elements Schools did not create and disseminate school-parent

compacts School- parent compacts did not include required

elements Parents not involved in annually reviewing parent

involvement policies and school-parent compacts, and revising as needed


Parental Notifications and Parents Right to Know

Letters to parents did not include all required components

Insufficient time for parents to make decisions about public school choice or SES

No letters sent to parents about public school choice and SES options


Information not provided to parents in other languages, as appropriate

Parents were not notified about the qualifications of paraprofessionals

Parents were not notified when their child had

been assigned to or taught by a teacher who is not highly qualified for four or more consecutive weeks


Parents not aware of district level and/or school level written parent involvement policies

Principals and/or staff not aware of requirement of written parent involvement policies

Charter schools not aware of all Title I requirements for parent policies and school - parent compacts

SEAs had not reviewed LEA parent involvement policies and practices to determine if requirements have been met


Required annual meeting did not include information about the school’s Title I program, the nature of the Title I program (schoolwide or targeted assistance), and information about AYP, school choice, and supplemental education services

Schools depended on the annual meeting as the only source to share information with parents about the Title I program, even when small numbers of parents attend the meetings


Parents not included in the development, review, and implementation of school improvement plans

Parents not involved in decisions on use of funds reserved for parent involvement activities

Lack of district focus on building capacity of parents

RESOURCES

Title I Parental Involvement Policy Section 1118 Regulations http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg

Parental Involvement: Title, Part A Non-Regulatory Guidance http://www.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/parentinvguid.doc

Tennessee Department of Education Family and Community Engagement http://www.tennessee.gov/education/fedprog/fpparentinvolve.shtml

CONTACT INFORMATION

Liz Roper, Family and Community Engagement Project Director

Office of Federal Programs

Tennessee Department of Education

[email protected]

615-253-0047

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