Creed Collins Elementary School-Parent Compact
The Creed Collins Elementary School, and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (participating children), agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the 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 that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.
This school-parent compact is in effect during school 2011-12.
REQUIRED SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT PROVISIONS:
School Responsibilities:
Creed Collins Elementary School will:
1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows:
- Blooms Taxonomy (Higher Level Thinking Skills)
- 3 Tier Reading Intervention Model
- IAC (Instructional Assessment Coach) Assessment Grades 3-5
- DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) Assessment Grades K-2; Focus in Reading, Writing and Math
- University of Kansas Writing Strategies
- Focus on Reading, Writing and Math
- Preschool ~ Creative Curriculum ECERS-R Environmental Rating Scale for Preschool
2. Hold parent-teacher conferences (at least annually in elementary schools) during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement.
3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress. Specifically, the school will provide reports as follows: ·
- Report cards: sent six times per year.
- Summary reports to provide feedback to parents regarding DIBELS assessments for children in grades K-2.
- Summary reports to provide feedback to parents regarding MAP assessment results for children in grades K-5.
4. Provide parents reasonable access to staff. Specifically, staff will be available for consultation. This is in addition to parent teacher conferences. Our teachers make themselves available during planning periods and before and after school. We also make telephone conferences and communicate through e-mail when parents are employed and unavailable during business hours.
5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and to observe classroom activities.
6. Parents are provided with up to date information on the Creed Collins Elementary website, through a monthly school newsletter, through weekly classroom newsletters and through the Parent Teacher Organization.
7. General volunteer information:
- Volunteer sign-up forms are sent home at the beginning of year. Parents indicate how they would like to volunteer.
- Confidentiality Training
- Parent partner coordinates other parent volunteers
- Parents help with a variety of special programs such as
- Office volunteers
- Special classroom activities/parties
- Cardinal of the 6 weeks luncheon
- Responsible Student rewards events
- Field trips
- Fall Festival
- Christmas program
- COSI on Wheels
- Snakes Alive
- Picture Day
- Yearbook Staff
- Website www.creedcollins.com
Parent Responsibilities:
We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:
- Monitoring attendance.
- Making sure that homework is completed.
- Monitoring amount of television their 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:
- 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.
- Access Reading and Math Textbooks Online as needed
- Data Folders setting goals and monitoring learning
Additional Required School Responsibilities:
Creed Collins Elementary School will:
- Involve parents in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s parental involvement policy, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.
- Involve parents in the joint development of any school wide program plan, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
Optional School Responsibilities:
To help build and develop a partnership with parents to help their children achieve the State’s high academic standards, Creed Collins Elementary School will:
- Recommend to the local educational agency (LEA), the names of parents of participating children of Title I, Part A programs who are interested in serving on the State’s Committee of Practitioners and School Support Teams.
- Notify parents of the school’s participation in Early Reading First, Reading First and Even Start Family Literacy Programs operating within the school, the district and the contact information.
- Work with the LEA in addressing problems, if any, in implementing parental involvement activities in section 1118 of Title I, Part A.
- Work with the LEA to ensure that a copy of the SEA’s written complaint procedures for resolving any issue of violation(s) of a Federal statute or regulation of Title I, Part A programs is provided to parents of students and to appropriate private school officials or representatives.
Handbook Purpose and Acknowledgement: The student-parent handbook will provide you with useful information and give you a better understanding of expectations of students at Creed Collins Elementary School. Read the handbook and there will be fewer misunderstandings. A better relationship with students, parents, and staff will result from the utilization of this handbook. Parents and students are expected to be familiar with the handbook. Much information is provided concerning school policies as well as dates when school will not be in session and dates when reports cards will be sent home.
Statement of Non-discrimination: As required by federal laws and regulations, the Ritchie County board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, handicapping condition, political affiliation, or marital status, in employment or education programs and activities. An equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Inquiries may be referred to the United States Department of Education Director of the Office for Civil Rights or Director of Instructional Services, 217 West Penn Ave., Harrisville, WV, 26362, Phone: 304-643-2991
