Engaging Families: HomeSchool Connections Module III

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Engaging FamiliesHome-School ConnectionsModule
III

• No Child Left Behind
• Parents as Consumers

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• Engaging Families Home-School Connections
• United Federation of Teachers Teacher Center
• New York City Regional School Support Center
• New York State Education Department
• Developed and written by
• Miriam Beverly, Karen Butler-Brock, Tisha Hinds,
• Mary Madden, Karen Millard, Esta Newman, UFT
  Teacher Center
• Jan Atwell,
• United Parents Associations of New York City,
  Inc.
• Edited by Bea Carson
• Coordinated by
• Theresa Mehrer and Carol Haupt
• A UFT Teacher Center PowerPoint Publication

Aminda Gentile Director
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Engaging Families Home-School Connections
Core Belief
All parents care about their children.
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No Child Left BehindAgenda

• Read Aloud
• What is No Child Left Behind?
• Activity I Index Cards
• Activity II Alphabet Soup
• Lecturette
• Journal Writing

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No Child Left Behind

• Read Aloud
• Read a selection appropriate to the subject.

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No Child Left Behind

• What is No Child Left Behind?
• The No Child Left Behind law adds a new
• direction to the role of parents-as-consumers
• in Title I - Schools in Need of Improvement/
• Corrective Action Schools.

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No Child Left Behind

• What is No Child Left Behind? (continued)
• School Choice and Supplemental
• Educational Services are meant to
• empower parents. Parents have access to
• information regarding the credentials of
• teachers and paraprofessionals and
• the achievement of their childs school.

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• Activity I Index Card Activity
• (Each participant receives 5 index cards.)
• Write one or two different words on each index
  card, describing who you are (for example,
  teacher, musician). Place cards face down.
• 2. Choose 3 cards without looking, tear them
  up and throw them away.
• Turn up the remaining 2 cards. These represent
  who you are now.
• 4. How does this change affect you?

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• Activity II Alphabet Soup and Discussion
• Using the handout sheet, identify what the
  acronyms stand for.

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• Activity II Alphabet Soup and Discussion
  (continued)
• Lecturette Schools in Need of Improvement and
  Corrective Action Schools

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• Alphabet Soup Unscrambled
• AYP - Adequate Yearly Progress
• S.E.S. - Supplemental Educational Service
• CA - Corrective Action
• NCLB - No Child Left Behind
• SINI - School in Need of Improvement
• HQT - Highly Qualified Teacher
• ASRC - Annual School Report Card
• SURR - School Under Registration Review

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NCLB Fact Sheet Corrective Action (CA) (1 of
4) When schools fail to make adequate yearly
progress (AYP) for 2 years, they are designated
Corrective Action Schools. When schools fail to
make AYP for 4 years they are designated Schools
in Need of Improvement (SINI), and - School
Choice must be provided. - School receives
Technical Assistance (T.A.). - Supplemental
educational services (S.E.S.) must be provided.
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• NCLB Fact Sheet Corrective Action (CA)- (2 of 4)
• One of the following actions must be taken
• Replace relevant staff.
• Institute new curriculum and professional
  development for staff.
• Significantly increase management authority at
  school.
• Appoint outside expert to advise school.
• Extend school day or year.
• Restructure school.

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NCLB Fact Sheet Corrective Action (CA) (3 of
4) After 2 years of Corrective Action (5 years of
not making AYP), the school goes into
restructuring. School choice, supplemental
educational services and T.A. continue. One of
the following actions must be taken - Reopen as
a charter school. - Replace all or most of the
school staff relevant to making AYP. - Contact
private management company to operate the public
school. - Turn over the school to the state. -
Take another major school restructuring action
(governance).
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NCLB Fact Sheet Corrective Action (CA) - (4 of
4) If/when a school makes AYP for 2 consecutive
years, the school is no longer subject to
improvement. If/when a school meets the State
Standard, it is no longer subject to improvement.
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No Child Left Behind

• School Report Card Activity
• Review your schools report card, looking for
• the information requested on the worksheet.
• Discuss the implications of this information.

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• Annual School Report Notes
• Performance on State tests- Students Receiving
• General Education Services
• Performance on State tests- Students Receiving
  Special education
• Services
• Performance on State tests- English Language
  Learners

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• Annual School Report Notes, 2
• Principals Statement
• Teachers
• Student

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• Journal Writing
• If you had to create a list of multiple lines of
• communication between home and school, what
• networking structures would be included?

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Engaging Families Home-School Connections
Core Belief
All parents care about their children.
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No Child Left Behind

• Journals for Parents
• Parents of Exceptional Children
• Kappan
• Educational Leadership ASCD

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• Schools in Need of Improvement (SINI)
• Year 1 and Year 2
• (Notes pages)

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• Schools in Need of Improvement (SINI)
• become Corrective Action after 2 years failing
• AYP, (also see slides 11-14 and Notes page).

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• Timeline
• (See Notes page)

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• School Choice
• After 1 year of SINI status, mandatory school
  choice MUST be provided. District MUST provide
  transportation. Lack of capacity is not an
  exception. Funds that may be used are
• Title I.
• Title V.
• - Non-Federal funds.

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• Supplemental Educational Services (S.E.S.)
• If a Title I School fails to make AYP by the end
  of the first full
• school year after being identified for school
  improvement, then
• provisions must be arranged for supplemental
  services for eligible
• students who attend that school. These are to be
  in addition to the
• instruction provided during the school day and
  must be of high
• quality, research-based and specifically designed
  to increase the
• academic achievement of the eligible students on
  state
• assessments. Eligibility status Students are
  eligible for
• S.E.S. is based on low achievement and low income
  (i.e., students
• Are eligible for free or reduced-fee lunch).

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• Terms Defined
• Accountability System
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• Assessment
• Corrective Action
• Disaggregated Data (also see Notes page)

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• Terms Defined
• Supplemental Educational Services
• Teacher Quality
• Highly Qualified Teacher
• Paraprofessional (See Notes page)