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2024-25 Family Engagement Policy
WELLFORD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
2024-2025
TITLE I PARENT AND FAMILY POLICY
This Policy was approved at the School’s May 16, 2024 Title One Meeting
It is the policy of the administration, faculty and staff of your child’s school to:
● Involve parents, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the planning, review, and improvement of
programs. This will be accomplished through meetings, newsletters, surveys, and periodic updates.
● Hold an Annual Title I Meeting to inform parents of their school’s participation in Title I and to explain
its requirement. This annual meeting will be held at parent breakfasts/open house in the fall.
● Provide information to parents in a timely manner through newsletters and parent conferences.
● Provide opportunities for parents to volunteer.
● Provide parents with explanations of the school’s overall student achievement and their child’s individual
student test results. Individual student’s progress will be shared through parent conferences, and the
school’s overall achievement will be shared through the school report card and through school
newsletters.
● Provide parents a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the assessments used to measure
student progress, and the ability levels students are expected to meet.
● Offer regular and flexibly scheduled meetings for parents to make suggestions, share experiences, and
participate in decisions relating to the education of their child.
● Provide timely responses to parents’ suggestions.
● Develop and distribute a School-Parent compact.
● Provide parent involvement programs that provide materials and training to help parents work with
educators as partners to monitor and improve their child’s achievement as follows:
1) Parent Educator
2) Parent / Teacher Conferences
3) Frequent Reports on Students’ Progress
4) Parent Workshops
5) Family Nights
● Make sure that information related to school and parent programs is sent to the parents in a format and
language that parents can understand.
● Provide other practical support for parental involvement activities as parents may request and as follows:
1) Parent meetings
2) Family meals and breakfasts with class sharing time
3) Volunteer Opportunities
4) Parent training opportunities
5) Family Nights
Parent Signature: ______________________________________________
Student name: _________________________________________________
Administrative Signature: ________________________________________
Wellford Academy of Science and Technology
Title I School – Parent Compact
2024-2025
Under No Child Left Behind, each Title I school jointly develops with parents a school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the way in which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State’s high standards.
As a school, we will:
Provide a high-quality effective learning environment that is safe and that enables the student to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards
Provide ongoing two-way communication between teachers and parents through parent-teacher-student conferences and frequent reports to parents
Provide reasonable access to staff through an “open door” policy
Provide opportunities for parents to volunteer and participate in their child’s class and observe classroom activities
Provide a mutually respectful relationship between all parties (students, parents, teachers, and volunteers)
As a parent, I will:
Support my child’s learning by ensuring that he/she has proper rest and nutrition and attends school on time and on a regular basis
Support my child’s learning by reading with him/her
Help set a positive tone for learning with my child
Strive to make positive use of my time with my child (“quality” one on one time)
Participate in decisions relating to the education of my child through a mutually respectful relationship with school staff
Provide a mutually respectful relationship between all parties (students, parents, teachers, and volunteers)
Provide “protected” time for homework completion (Make sure that recreational activities don’t interfere with school work.)
Support my child’s class/school (i.e. helping in class/school, volunteering in my child’s classroom/school, communicating with my child’s teachers, attending school events when possible, etc.)
As a student, I will:
Proudly follow the behavioral expectations taught at our school.
Ask questions when I am not sure about a lesson or an assignment
Make good choices like paying attention in class, staying on task, doing my best, and working hard at my schoolwork
Be the very best that I can be each and every day
Parent Signature: ____________________________________
Student Signature: ____________________________________
Teacher Signature; _____________________________________
2024-25 D5 Parent Engagement Policy
Parents/Staff, please review the District Title I Parent and Family Involvement Policy and let us know if you think it meets our needs as we work together in educating our children.
Send your comments/suggestions to Spartanburg District Five Schools
Attn: Karen McMakin
P.O. Box 307, Duncan, SC 29334
Or email
karen.mcmakin@spart5.net
Parent and Family Engagement - LEA Written Policy for 2024-2025 (English Version)
In order to meet the requirements regarding parent and family engagement, Spartanburg District Five Schools will:
1. Involve parents in the joint development of the LEA plans and the process of school review and improvement by:
a. Including parents on the School Improvement Councils to review the policy. b. Convening annual meetings to inform parents of the schools’ participation under the Title I, requirements, programs, and their right to be involved.
c. Recording observations and comments in the minutes of annual school meetings. d. Providing opportunity for parents to review the federal regulations by making them available at the annual meetings and at the schools.
2. Provide coordination, technical assistance, and support to schools for effective parent involvement by:
a. Providing parent educators and employees who will provide coordination, technical assistance, and support to schools for effective parental involvement. b. Providing a parent/family literacy program which strongly supports the Title I program through collaboration with district office staff, PTO’s, school improvement councils, and ACT 135 committees.
c. Providing ongoing in-service for all school parent educators on programs and means of effectively involving parents.
d. Ensuring that parent/family educators have been trained in a program like Parents as Teachers and Born to Learn from the PAT Foundation or Triple P (Principles for Positive Parenting).
3. Build the schools’ parents’ capacity for strong parent/family involvement by:
a. Working directly with families, teachers, administrators, and support staff in helping students reach the goals established by the district.
b. Encouraging volunteering, PTO attendance, workshop attendance, and participation in surveys.
c. Providing opportunities for program planning for teachers and principals through meetings and/or questionnaires.
d. Using findings from needs assessments to assist schools in planning for parent/family engagement.
e. Conducting needs assessments to determine services needed by parents to facilitate engagement.
4. Coordinate and integrate parent/family engagement under this program with parent involvement under other programs as determined by the schools.
a. Using parent educators in helping families in need of services provided by the district and/or other county and state agencies.
5. Conduct, with the involvement of parents, an annual evaluation of the content effectiveness of the parent and family engagement policy to determine:
a. The effectiveness as to increasing parent participation; and
b. Barriers to participation as noted in section 1118 of the law:
Use parent surveys and parental attendance at meetings and workshops as a means to determine effectiveness and barriers to parent participation. Use parent survey and SIC review of parental involvement policy to determine how to
increase the involvement.
Involve parents in the activities of the school served under this part by:
♦ Conducting annual Title I meetings.
♦ Conducting Family Nights.
♦ Conducting Parent/Teacher conferences that address test results, the district annual report and the school report card.
♦ Providing parenting classes.
♦ Keeping records, such as minutes of SIC Meetings and responses from parents on surveys.
♦ Providing feedback to parents on findings at the annual meeting and/or by newsletter.
6. Use such finding to design strategies for school improvement and revise, if necessary, the LEA and school parent and family engagement policies by:
a. Meeting with schools to share information and making revisions as necessary. b. Providing feedback to parents on findings at the annual meeting and/or newsletter. c. Analyzing information, suggestions, etc. from parents to determine if revisions are necessary.