Parental Involvement Title I, Section 1118

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Parental InvolvementTitle I, Section 1118
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Definition

• Parental Involvement
• Participation
• of parents of Title I students
• in a regular, two-way and meaningful
  communication concerning student academic
  learning.

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Definition (continued)

• Parental Involvement
• Activities that improve student achievement and
  
• school performance.

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Title I Parental Involvement

• Local school districts receiving Title I funds
  must
• Develop a jointly agreed upon written policy
  which establishes the districts expectations for
  parental involvement
• Ensure that each participating school develops a
  written policy that describes the means for
  carrying out the districts policy
• Convene annual meeting
• Conduct annual evaluations of parental
  involvement policy
• Communicate a policy for promoting parental
  involvement in program implementation, school
  review, and development of improvement plans

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Reservation of Funds for Parental Involvement

• Local school districts must ensure that Title I
  schools
• Reserve at least one percent of the districts
  total Title I, Part A, allocation to carry out
  parental involvement activities for districts
  receiving 500,000 or more
• Set aside at least 95 percent of the reserved
  funds to be distributed to participating schools

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Title I Parental Involvement

• Schools receiving Title I funds are REQUIRED to
• Jointly develop with, agree upon, and distribute
  to, parents of participating children a written
  parental involvement policy.
• Notify parents of the policy in an understandable
  and uniform format, and to the extent
  practicable, in a language that the parents can
  understand.
• Hold an annual meeting, at a convenient time, to
  which all parents shall be invited and encouraged
  to attend.

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Title I Parental Involvement (continued)

• Local school districts must ensure that Title I
  schools
• Provide parents with information about the
  programs, a description and explanation of the
  curriculum, forms of academic assessment and, if
  requested, opportunities for regular meetings to
  discuss the education of their children
• Offer a flexible number of meetings, such as
  meetings in the morning or evening, and may
  provide, with funds provided under this part,
  transportation, child care, or home visits, as
  such services relate to parental involvement.
• Develop a written school-parent compact that
  outlines the responsibilities of each party for
  improved student academic achievement

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Title I School-Parent Compact

• The School-Parent Compact describes
• Schools responsibility to meet the states
  student academic achievement standards
• Ways in which parents will be responsible for
  supporting their childrens learning
• monitoring attendance, homework completion, and
  television watching
• volunteering in their childrens classrooms
• participating, as appropriate, in decisions
  relating to the education of their children and
  positive use of extracurricular time

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Title I School-Parent Compact(continued)

• The School-Parent Compact addresses the
  importance of communication between teachers and
  parents on an ongoing basis of
• Parent/teacher conferences (discuss compact)
• Frequent reports to parents on childrens
  progress
• Reasonable access to staff
• Opportunities to volunteer/participate in
  childrens
• classes
• Observational classroom activities

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Parental Notifications Under the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001
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A Parents Right-to-Know Teacher
Qualifications

• Local school districts receiving Title I funds
  must notify parents at the beginning of each
  school year that they may request and obtain
  information from the district about
  qualifications of staff instructing their
  children in Title I schools.

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A Parents Right-to-Know Teacher
Qualifications (continued)

• Information must include
• Whether the teacher has met state qualification
  and licensing criteria for the grade levels and
  subject areas taught
• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency
  or other provisional status
• The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and
  any other graduate certification
• Whether their children are provided services by
  paraprofessionals and, if so, their
  qualifications

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Parental NotificationNot Highly Qualified

• The local school district must ensure that Title
  I schools give timely notice to parents that
  their children have been assigned or have been
  taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a
  teacher who is not highly qualified.

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Parental NotificationIndividual Student
Achievement

• The local school district must ensure that Title
  I schools provide parents with information on the
  achievement level of their children on the
  statewide assessments as soon as is practicably
  possible after tests are taken.

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Parental Notification LEP Programs

• Under Title I and Title III parental notification
  requirements, local school districts must ensure
  that LEP parents are notified no later than 30
  days after the beginning of each school year or
  within two weeks of placement in a language
  instruction educational program.
• LEP parents must be notified of
• The reason their child has been identified as LEP
• Their childs level of English proficiency and
  how the level was assessed
• Their childs academic level
• The method of instruction that will be used
• The program exit requirements
• Their rights to remove child from program or
• refuse services

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Keys to Success

• A family involvement program can serve as a
  forum for discussion and a conduit for change.
  Based on information from ongoing
  family-involvement programs, its important to
  keep in mind the following points
• Remember there is no one size fits all answer
  to partnerships
• Set clear and measurable goals based on family
  and community input.
• Develop a variety of outreach mechanisms
• Provide a varied menu of opportunities for
  participation

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Contact Information

• Pamela Payton-Curry
• Mississippi Department of Education
• Office of Innovative Support
• Phone[phone] Fax [phone]
• E-mail pcurry_at_mde.k12.ms.us