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
●
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
3rd, 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.