FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTTITLE I PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT

• SECTION 1118
• STRATEGIES / BEST PRACTICES
• PARENTAL NOTIFICATION UNDER NCLB
• FEDERAL MONITORING FINDINGS
• Liz Roper, Project Director

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SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
DISTRICT LEVEL POLICY

• WRITTEN POLICY ON PARENT INVOLVEMENT, SCHOOL
  REVIEW AND IMPROVEMENT
• DEVELOPED WITH PARENTS DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS
• PROVIDES SUPPORT/ T.A. TO SCHOOLS TO PLAN
  EFFECTIVE PARENT ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENT
  ACHIEVMENT/ SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
• BUILDS SCHOOLS/PARENTS CAPACITY FOR STRONG
  INVOLVEMENT
• INTEGRATES HEAD START, READING FIRST, EVEN START,
  PARENTS AS TEACHER,PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS
• ANNUAL POLICY EVALUATION
• LEAS ALLOCATED 500,000 , PARENTS INVOLVED ABOUT
  HOW 1 USED IN PARENT INVOLVMENT ACTIVITIES,
  LITERACY, PARENTING SKILLS

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SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL
LEVEL POLICY

• WRITTEN POLICY IN UNDERSTANDABLE FORMAT DEVELOPED
  WITH PARENTS AND DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS IN A
  LANGUAGE PARENTS CAN UNDERSTAND
• ANNUAL MEETING AT CONVENIENT TIME PARENTS CAN
  ATTEND TO DISCUSS TITLE I, PARENT POLICY, AND
  RIGHT TO BE INVOLVED
• OFFER FLEXIBLE NUMBER OF MEETINGS- AM and PM
• INVOLVE PARENTS IN PLANNING/ REVIEW OF THIS
  POLICY
• REGULAR MEETINGS IF REQUESTED BY PARENTS
• SCHOOL COMPACT DESCRIBING HOW STUDENTS, PARENTS,
  AND STAFF WILL SHARE IMPROVED STUDENT ACHIEVMENT
  AND WAYS PARTNERSHIP IS BUILT BETWEEN
  PARENTS/SCHOOLS TO HELP CHILDREN ACHIEVE

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SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL
LEVEL POLICY

• DESCRIBE SCHOOLS RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE HIGH
  QUALITY CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN SUPPORTIVE
  AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
• ANNUAL PARENT- TEACHER CONFERENCES
• ONGOING COMMUNICATION AND TIMELY INFORMATION
• AT LEAST ANNUAL PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE IN
  ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• FREQUENT PROGRESS REPORTS
• REASONABLE ACCESS TO STAFF
• OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER AND PARTICIPATE

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SECTION 1118 TITLE I BUILDING CAPACITY FOR
INVOLVEMENT

• EXPLAIN TO PARENTS CURRICULUM, ASSESSMENTS,
  ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS, PROFICIENCY
  LEVELS STUDENTS EXPECTED TO MEET, HOW TO MONITOR
  A CHILDS WORK, HOW TO WORK WITH EDUCATORS
• PROVIDE MATERIALS AND TRAINING TO HELP PARENTS
  WORK WITH CHILDREN IN LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY
• EDUCATE SCHOOL STAFF HOW TO COMMUNICATE AND WORK
  WITH PARENTS AS EQUAL PARTNERS
• INTEGRATES HEAD START, READING FIRST, EVEN START,
  PARENTS AS TEACHER, PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS

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SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

• 1 PARENTING
• Assist families with parenting and child rearing
  skills, understanding child and adolescent
  development, and setting home conditions that
  support children as students at each age and
  grade level.  Assist schools in understanding
  families.
• PRACTICES
• Parent education and training (GED, college
  credit, family literacy, computer workshops,
  child development, language classes, cultural
  diversity).
• Family support programs to assist families with
  health, nutrition, and other services.
• Home visits.

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SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

• 2 COMMUNICATING
• Communicate with families about school programs
  and student progress through effective school to
  home and home to school communications.
• PRACTICES
• Ongoing communication resources -email, website,
  telecommunications system, electronic language
  translation, student management software,
  brochures, mail outs
• Information on learning standards, assessments,
  child progress reports, school performance,
  school programs, reading and math tips, homework
  tips

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SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

• 3 VOLUNTEERING
• Improve recruitment, training, and schedules to
  involve families as volunteers and audiences in
  other locations to support students and school
  programs.
• PRACTICES
• Include parent and community volunteers in the
  classroom, as reading and math mentors, for
  cafeteria and bus duty, in sports events, as hall
  monitors, as language translators, and for
  fundraisers.
• Enlist parents and community to mentor English
  Language Learners, special needs, new families.

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SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

• 4 LEARNING AT HOME
•  Involve families with their children in learning
  activities at home, including homework and other
  curriculum-related activities and decisions.
• PRACTICES AT HOME
• Read to your child every day and your child takes
  turns reading to you. Ask your child questions
  about the story and characters, predict the
  outcome.
• Play a rhyming game. Parent says a word like rat
  and child rhymes with bat, sat, hat,
• Homework hotline, place on homework sheet for
  parent comments

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SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

• 5 DECISION MAKING
• Include families as participants in school
  decisions, governance, and advocacy through
  PTA/PTO, school councils, committees, action
  teams, and other parent organizations.
• PRACTICES
• Parents participating on the School Improvement
  Committee, Parent Advisory, and Leadership Team
• Design school strategies with parents for
  academic, attendance, and behaviors.
• Use surveys to identify needs.

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SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES

• 6 COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY
• Coordinate resources and services for students,
  families, and the school with businesses,
  agencies, and other groups, and provide services
  to the community.
• PRACTICES
• Integrate academic and childcare resources such
  as Head Start, Reading First, Family Literacy
  Programs
• Provide information on community resources to
  help the child or family with health, housing,
  food, clothing, employment

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CREATE PRACTICES TO ADDRESS

• Fathers actively involved in their childs
  education, especially in the middle and high
  school grades
• Teachers guiding parents to monitor and discuss
  homework with their children
• District leaders and principals organizing
  committees that focus on the six type of
  involvement and conducting evaluations on the
  activities, and providing workshops on creating
  partnerships,

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SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES

• Bledsoe County- Language translation
  www.freetranslation.com
• Cleveland City Schools- Key Communicators Network
  to respond to emails
• Crockett County- Hispanic interpreter
• Metropolitan Nashville -Customer Service Center
• Grundy County- Grandparents Day
• Hawkins County- TCAP TIPOFF
• Haywood County- AYP on billboards

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SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES

• Henderson County Schools and Lexington City
  Schools- annual A Family Affair
• Jackson- Madison County- Jackson Parent and
  Ms. Tennessee Parents and Families magazine
  published monthly
• Lebanon Special School District- ELL literacy
  program
• Marion County- Compiles parent/community data
• McMinn County- restaurant owners present food
  coupons
• Clarksville-Montgomery County- The Learning
  Center

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SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES

• Putnam County- 1.5 family engagement coordinators
• Rutherford County- system wide Parent Advisory
  Committee School Messenger System
• Sevier County- TransAct language translation
  technology for over 20 languages
• Tullahoma City Schools- Sinkways Program to
  email student grades electronically
• Warren County- Sales tax holiday collaboration
• Wilson County- Parents as Teachers Birth to
  Kindergarten Program

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TITLE I PARENTAL NOTIFICATION UNDER NCLB

• State Report Card
• Teacher Qualification
• Childs achievement on state assessment
• Limited English proficiency programs
• Schools identified for improvement, corrective
  action or restructuring
• Supplemental educational services
• Parental involvement policy

• Safe and drug-free schools programs
• National Assessment of Education Progress
• Military recruiter access to student information
• Homeless children
• Student privacy
• Waiver request
• 21st Century Community Learning Centers
• Schoolwide programs

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USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING
SUMMARY

• Parental Notifications and Parents Right to Know
• Letters to parents did not include all required
  components
• Insufficient time for parents to make decisions
  about public school choice or SES
•  No letters sent to parents about public school
  choice and SES options

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USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING
SUMMARY

• Information not provided to parents in other
  languages, as appropriate
• Parents were not notified about the
  qualifications of paraprofessionals
• Parents were not notified when their child had
  been assigned to or taught by a teacher who is
  not highly qualified for four
• or more consecutive weeks

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USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING
SUMMARY

• District and School- Level Parental Involvement
  Policies
•  Policies were not current
• Policies did not include required elements
• Schools did not create and disseminate
  school-parent compacts
• School- parent compacts did not include required
  elements
• Parents not involved in annually reviewing parent
  involvement policies and school-parent compacts,
  and revising as needed

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USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING
SUMMARY

• Parents not aware of district level and/or school
  level written parent involvement policies
• Principals and/or staff not aware of requirement
  of written parent involvement policies
• Charter schools not aware of all Title I
  requirements for parent policies and school -
  parent compacts
•  SEAs had not reviewed LEA parent involvement
  policies and practices to determine if
  requirements have been met

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USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING
SUMMARY

• Required annual meeting did not include
  information about the schools Title I program,
  the nature of the Title I program (schoolwide or
  targeted assistance), and information about AYP,
  school choice, and supplemental education
  services
• Schools depended on the annual meeting as the
  only source to share information with parents
  about the Title I program, even when small
  numbers of parents attend the meetings

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USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING
SUMMARY

• Parents not included in the development, review,
  and implementation of school improvement plans
• Parents not involved in decisions on use of funds
  reserved for parent involvement activities
• Lack of district focus on building capacity of
  parents

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RESOURCES

• Title I Parental Involvement Policy Section 1118
  Regulations http//www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/ese
  a02/pg
• Parental Involvement Title, Part A
  Non-Regulatory Guidance http//www.ed.gov/programs
  /titleiparta/parentinvguid.doc
• Tennessee Department of Education Family and
  Community Engagement http//www.tennessee.gov/educ
  ation/fedprog/fpparentinvolve.shtml

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Liz Roper, Family and Community Engagement
  Project Director
• Office of Federal Programs
• Tennessee Department of Education
• Elizabeth.Roper_at_state.tn.us
• 615-253-0047