Family Engagement Plan

 

School Level Family Engagement Plan

 

Each Title I school is required to establish a Family and Community Engagement Committee.  To the extent possible, the Family and Community Engagement Committee will be a demographic representation of the school.  The school-level Family and Community Engagement Committee will be responsible for:

●      Developing, implementing, and assessing the school-level Family Engagement Policy.

●      Determining what action needs to be taken, if any, to plan and increase participation in family engagement activities.

●      Identifying barriers to participation in family engagement activities.

●      When applicable, integrating parent involvement activities with existing community agencies such as Tennessee Early Intervention Services, HeadStart, preschools (public and private), etc.

●      The Family Engagement Coordinator for McPheeter's Bend Elementary is Melissa Markham.  The Parent Engagement Committee will meet two times this school year to discuss issues and make decisions.  Contact information: Melissa.markham@hck12.net

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Additionally, each school will:

●      Annually distribute the Home-School Compact to families at the beginning of each school year.  Discuss the Home-School Compact with parents and students at parent-teacher conferences.  The compact will also be posted online on the county and school-level websites.

●      Convene an annual parent meeting following State and Federal Guidelines.

●      Address the importance of communication between teachers and parents

●      provide at least two parent-teacher conference dates to address student progress

●      provide frequent child progress reports for parents

●      provide parents with reasonable access to staff through phone numbers, emails and scheduled meetings

●      opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child's class

●      opportunities to observe classroom activities following school procedures

●      Provide parents with materials to help parents work with their children to improve academic achievement

●      make the Parent Lending Library easily accessible to parents

●      promote the use of the Lending Library through newsletters, websites, and classroom communication.

●      Provide at least two parent training and activities designed to increase parents' capacity to help with learning at home.

●      Focus on strategies to improve homework, attendance, and discipline.

●      Convene at varying times to accommodate family schedules.

●      Invite all families to attend activities through written and verbal notice.

●      To the extent practicable, the school will provide full opportunities for participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities and parents of migratory child.

●      Back To School Bash August 3^rd, 2018

●      Parent Advisory Cmmittee Meeting

●      Continuation of Go Math Academy from last year and introducing parents to new grade level standards for this year and what children are already focusing on in class.  And Title 1 Annual Meeting with parents.

●      September  Math Night at Food Lion

●      TN Ready and State Standards meeting During Thanksgiving Dinner

●      Family Game night Reading and Math games with parents Date TBD

●      READ ACROSS AMERICA week, parents, teachers, and students coming together to make reading more fun.

 

●      Provide parents with a student handbook at the beginning of each year to provide information on

●      procedures to learn about the course of study for their child and have access to all learning materials.

●      the right to access their child's official records.

●      Utilize the Family Engagement Coordinator for technical assistance on policy development

●      Provide parents with written procedures on how to access the Parent Involvement Policy, the Hawkins County Schools Family Engagement Plan, and curriculum.

●      Increase parents' capacity to become involved in the educational process by presenting information in a timely manner and through various means to include information such as

●      a written 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.

●      State's academic content standards.

●      State student academic achievement standards.

●      State and local academic assessments, the requirements of parent involvement.

●      how to monitor a child's progress and work with educators to improve the achievement of their child.

●      MBES maintains a website that is updated frequently to keep parents informed about important happenings.

●      MBES will send a TN REady summary to each parent indicating their child's performance.  Students will be assessed three times per year through the use of Response to Intervention (RTI). RTI is an ongoing process of using student performance and other data to guide instruction and plan intervention.  Students are benchmark tested three times a year using AIMS WEB Plus. 

●      A newsletter entitled "Helping Children Learn" will be sent home monthly. This newsletter includes tips for parents to help their children perform better in school. 

●      Progress reports are sent home each mid-term.

●      Teachers will utilize e-mail, phone, and letter correspondence to communicate with parents about their child's performance. 

●      Kindergarten, first, second,  third, and fourth grade teachers provide each student with a daily communication folder that contains a newsletter, or weekly calendar note listing skills being covered and important dates coming up. 

●      School work is sent home to parents for them to see their child's progress in class. 

 

●      Set up meetings requested by parents to give suggestions and be part of the decision making about their child relating to the education of their child, and respond to the suggestions as soon as possible.

●      Coordinate parent involvement programs and activities with Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, Even Start, the Home Instruction Programs for Preschool Youngsters, the Parents as Teachers Program, and public preschool and other programs, and conduct other activities, such as parent resource centers.

●      Pre-K and Head Start will be invited to tour the school and meet with the Kindergarten teacher.

●      Flyers with information about Kindergarten registration will be sent to area pre-schools and Head Start programs. Dates of registration will be printed in local newspapers and will posted on the county and school website. 

●      Parents will be provided information explaining the materials available for check-out in our Parent Resource Center. 

●      All McPheeter's Bend Elementary fourth graders will visit Church Hill Intermediate School for an orientation program in the Spring to help with transistion to 5th grade. 

 

●      All information about school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to the parents in an understandable language.

●      Provide other reasonable support for parental involvement activities as parents may request.

●      Provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children, including providing information and school reports in a language such parents understand.