Parent-School Compact

Goals of the Compact:

1. The parents and school will work together to help children achieve the Missouri Show-Me Standards and the mandates of No Child Left Behind.

2. The school will seek parent support in providing an effective learning environment for high-quality curriculum and instruction.

3. Parents will be provided opportunities to learn how to support their child’s academic success.

4. Parents will be provided information of their child’s instructional programs, learning expectations, and all local, state, and federal mandates.

Steps and procedures to meet the goals:

• Parents will be part of the CSIP committee, Reading Plan Committee, and other related planning processes, such as developing tutoring criteria.
• Parent questionnaires will assist in the development of new programs, grant proposals, the Federal LEA plan, and the CSIP plan
• Annual Parent workshops will provide parents with curriculum goals and classroom expectations. Parents will be informed about the school’s complaint procedure, state and federal regulations, and the district’s academic performance at fall meetings. This will include AYP and APR reports.
• Parents will be provided student performance data on their child and have it explained in understandable terms.
• Parents will receive quarterly reports of their child’s academic progress. Parents will be informed of their child’s reading level a minimum of three times a year.
• Parent information nights will be held to educate parents about effective reading instruction, their roll in their child’s reading and math abilities, assessments and their purposes, homework, and other educational decisions and laws that impact their families.
• Students show responsibility by taking home “The Green Folder” as the Friday folder each week. This includes notes and homework reports. Students are to have a parent sign and return the folders on Monday.

Parent School Compact Meeting

Feb. 1, 2005

Pam Crooks

Lois Easley

Connie Charles

Met at 3:30 to review Parent School Compact

Committee discussed putting in the handbook and posting on the web site for the remaining school year.

Feel plan is weak about addressing the responsibilities of the children. Talked a lot about how this is an issue with a lot of children. Policies in place but hard to enforce without parental support. Work with this a lot.

There are steps in place in the handbook and a parent workshop on homework was given this fall.

Should parents have more input on the workshops? There may be better attendance.

Spring parent teacher conferences, when parents evaluate the programs, include questions about workshop interest. Would you rather have a hands on activity with your child or lecture type workshops?

Do surveys in the spring but not at parent teacher conferences. Not enough time and not the right climate to do it in.