No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

• SEC. 1118.
• PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
• Angela Hewlett-Bloch, District B
• 10/02

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School Parental Involvement Policy

• Jointly develop with and distribute to parents of
  participating children
• Notify parents of the policy in an understandable
  and uniform format
• Make policy available to the local community
• Update policy periodically to meet the changing
  needs of parents and school (yearly)

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School Parental Involvement Policy

• School may amend current policy to meet NCLB
  requirements
• LAUSD Parental Involvement Policy may be amended
  to meet NCLB requirements

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Policy Involvement

• Convene and annual meeting for all parents of
  participating children
• Convenient time
• Encouraged to attend
• Inform parents of schools participation
• Explain requirements
• Explain rights of parents

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Policy Involvement

• Offer flexible number of meetings
• Morning or evening
• Title I funds may provide for
• Transportation
• Childcare
• Home visits, such as services relating to
  parental involvement

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Policy Involvement

• Involve parents in an organized, and timely way
  in planning, review, and improvement of
• Programs
• School parental involvement policy
• Involve parents in the development of schoolwide
  program plan

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Policy Involvement

• Provide parents of participating children
• Timely information about programs funded by
  Title I
• School performance profiles and their childs
  individual assessment results
• A description and explanation of curriculum in
  use at the school
• Forms of academic assessment
• Proficiency levels students are expected to meet

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Policy Involvement

• Opportunities for regular meetings to
• Formulate suggestions
• Participate, as appropriate, in decisions
  relating to the education of their children
• Respond to any suggestions as soon as possible

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Shared Responsibilities for High Student Academic
Achievement

• Develop a School-Parent Compact that outlines
  how
• Parents
• Entire school staff
• Students
• Share in the responsibility for improved student
  academic achievement .

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Shared Responsibilities for High Student Academic
Achievement

• The School-Parent Compact shall describe
• The schools responsibility to provide
  high-quality curriculum and instruction
• The supportive and effective learning environment
  
• How children are enabled to meet the States
  standards
• How each parent will be responsible for
  supporting their childrens learning
• How parents participate in decisions relating to
  the education of their children

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Shared Responsibilities for High Student Academic
Achievement

• The School-Parent Compact shall address the
  importance of communication between teachers and
  parents on an ongoing basis through, at a
  minimum
• Parent-teacher conferences in elementary schools
  at least annually during which the compact shall
  be discussed as it relates to the individual
  childs achievement.

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Shared Responsibilities for High Student Academic
Achievement

• The School-Parent Compact shall address the
  importance of communication between teachers and
  parents on an ongoing basis through, at a
  minimum
• Frequent reports to parents on their childrens
  progress
• Reasonable access to staff
• Opportunities to volunteer, participate, observe
  in their childs class.

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Building Capacity for Involvement

• Provide assistance to parents in understanding
• State academic content standards
• State student academic achievement standards
• State and local assessments
• How to monitor a childs progress
• How to work with educators to improve the
  achievement of their children

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Building Capacity for Involvement

• Provide materials and training to help parents to
  work with their children to improve their
  students achievement to foster parental
  involvement i.e
• Literacy training
• Using technology

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Building Capacity for Involvement

• Educate teachers, support personnel,
  administrators, and other staff with the
  assistance of parents in
• The value and utility of contributions of parents
• How to reach out to, communicate with, work with
  parents as equal partners
• Implement and coordinate parent programs
• Build ties between parents and the school

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Building Capacity for Involvement

• Coordinate and integrate parent involvement
  programs and activities with public preschool and
  other programs (Head Start, Even Start)
• Conduct parent resource centers
• To encourage and support parents in more fully
  participating in the education of their children

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Building Capacity for Involvement

• Ensure that information is sent to parents in a
  format in a language the parents understand.
• May involve parents in the development of
  training for teachers, principals, and other
  educators
• May provide literacy training if the local
  education agency (LEA) has exhausted all other
  reasonably available sources of funding for such
  training

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Building Capacity for Involvement

• May pay reasonable expenses (transportation,
  child care) to enable participation
• May train parents to enhance involvement of other
  parents
• May arrange meetings at a variety of times
• May adopt model approaches to improve parental
  involvement
• May develop roles for community-based
  organizations and businesses

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Accessibility

• Provide full opportunities for the participation
  of parents with
• Limited English proficiency
• Disabilities
• Migratory children
• Including information and reports in a language
  parents understand

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Role of Coordinator?

• Facilitate the writing process
• Breakdown components of the policy into workable
  units to be completed over the course of the
  school year
• Include a component as an agenda item for each
  monthly school council meeting

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Three areas to cover

• Policy Involvement
• Shared Responsibilities
• Building Capacity

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Workable Units for Review

• Policy Involvement
• Meetings
• Communication/Accessibility
• Involvement in educational program
• Shared Responsibilities
• Parent-School Compact

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Workable Units for Review

• Building Capacity
• Assistance in understanding standards and
  expectations
• Materials and training to help parents improve
  their students achievement
• Professional development for staff in working
  with parents as partners
• Coordinate community resources
• Involving parents in staff professional
  development (as appropriate)

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How to Achieve Compliance

• Align parental involvement to federal guidelines.

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How to Achieve Compliance

• Maintain evidence that
• Parents were involved in the planning, review,
  and improvement of programs for educationally
  disadvantaged students.
• Verifies the policy has been distributed to
  parents of Title I students.
• An annual meeting of parents of Title I
  participants has been held.
• Parents of Title I participants have been
  informed of their childs participation in the
  Title I program and provided an explanation of
  program req.

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What is the Evidence?

• Meeting Announcements/Flyers
• Agendas
• Minutes
• Sign-ins
• Newsletters
• Bulletins

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Fastest route to noncompliance?WRITE THE POLICY
BY YOURSELF!