The administration, faculty, and staff of Jacksonwald Elementary School recognize the importance of parental involvement in the goal of academic excellence for every child. We realize that our students’ parents or guardians are the most important people in their lives. Without the involvement of parents, our students will not reach their fullest potential. This policy will serve as a guide for the involvement of parents. Working together as a team, parents and the school staff will help students achieve to their fullest potential, becoming lifelong readers and learners.

The Title I Parent Involvement section of the Every Student Succeeds Act, Section 1116 requires each Title I school to develop a written parental involvement policy that describes the means for carrying out the requirements of ESSA, Section 1116.

The Jacksonwald Elementary School will:

• Convene an annual fall meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in the Title I program and to explain the requirements of the program and the parent’s right to be involved.
• Schedule parent meetings, including parent conferences, at different times during the day, to the extent practicable in a language that family members can understand.
• Pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with parent involvement activities, including transportation, child care, or home visit expenses to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions.
• Schedule regular meetings, if requested by parents, to formulate suggestions and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of their children, and respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible.
• Provide a jointly developed with parents school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff and students will share in the responsibility for improved student achievement.
• Take the following actions to involve parents in the joint development of its school parental involvement plan.
  • Solicit input from parents at teacher-parent conferences, the annual meeting and through written communications, phone conversations, and email communications.
  • Provide copies of the policy to parents and provide information for checking the policy online.
  • Inform parents about the policy and the website in the Title I introduction letter and Title I informational brochure.
• Take the following actions to involve parents in the process of school review and improvement.
  • Survey parents at the end of each school year with a parent evaluation form.
  • Ask for verbal feedback from parents at conferences and parent activities.
• Provide parents of participating students with information about the Title I program.
  • An informational letter explaining their child’s involvement in the Title I program is sent to the parents of all Title I students at the beginning of the school year.
  • A brochure describing the Title I program is distributed to all Title I parents at the beginning of the school year, or when students are added to Title I.
  • The Title I program is explained at the annual meeting or when a child is added to the Title I program.
• Provide parents of participating children with a description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, the forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.
  • The district website provides parents with the curriculum presented at each grade level.
  • The student handbook provides parents with information about assessment.
  • Skyward, an online grading system, is available for parents to check their child’s academic progress at any time.
  • District Parent Forum meetings provide parents with information about curriculum.
  • The district newsletter contains curriculum and assessment information.
  • Phone conferences to further explain assessments and proficiency level are held, if requested by parents.
• Assist parents in understanding the State’s academic content standards and student achievement standards, local assessments and how to monitor a child’s progress and work with teachers to improve the achievement of their children.
  • Parent teacher conferences are held twice a year and anytime a parent requests a conference.
  • Skyward, an online grading system, is available for parents to monitor a student’s progress on a daily basis.
  • Report cards are distributed three times a year and Title I progress reports are distributed in January and June.
  • Parent forum meetings provide parents with varied information about standards, assessment.
• Provide materials and training to help parents work their children to improve their children’s achievement.
  • Parents are invited to activities held at the school. These activities provide the opportunity for parents to interact with their children in a positive environment of success.
  • Parents who attend the Annual Title I meeting are presented with suggested activities for working with their child at home. 
  • Workshops are provided to provide parents with strategies to help their children improve their reading skills.