Hillsboro Elementary School endorses the concept that parental involvement in the affairs of schools is essential if the school system and parents are to maintain mutual confidence and respect and work together to improve the quality of education for all students. It therefore will exert efforts to identify the desires of parents and to be responsible through its actions, to those desires.

The faculty and staff at Hillsboro Elementary School encourages and has established expectations for the involvement of parents, both as individuals and as groups, to act as advisors and resource people in the following ways:

1.  With specific talents to complement and extend the instructional services of the classroom teacher;

    2.    To serve as advisors on curriculum development projects;

    3.    To express ideas and concerns by responding to surveys and other information gathering devices;

    4.     Be actively involved in parent-teacher groups; and

    5.     Serve on citizens’ advisory committees.

To ensure parents of participating children have an adequate opportunity to participate in planning, designing and implementing of the Title I Parent Involvement Program, the school system shall:

    1.   Convene an annual meeting during the fall semester, inviting all parents/guardians of participating children 

           to explain the program, its requirements, activities and parental rights available under Title I. Invitation

           via local radio, newspaper, website, and/or personal flyers sent home with students;

    2.   Regularly provide parents of participating children reports and explanations of their child’s progress by    

          way of mid-term progress reports, nine week report cards, individual teacher reports, phone calls,

          and school agendas.

    3.   Provide the opportunity for a parent/teacher conference with the parents of each participating child to  

          discuss the child’s progress, placement, and training in methods the parents can use to complement

          the child’s instruction.

    4.    Make educational personnel under the Title I Program, including student services personnel, readily    

           accessible to parents;

    5.    Provide parents of participating children opportunities to observe Title I program activities;

    6.    Provide opportunities for regular and flexible meetings with parents to formulate parental input into the

           program; Opportunities are as follows:

    7.    Provide parents of participating children with a copy of the parental

           involvement policy as well as timely information about the program;

    8.    Make parents aware of parental involvement requirements and other relevant

           provisions of the program;

    9.    Provide reasonable support for parental involvement activities as parents may request;

   10.   Coordinate, to the extent possible, parental involvement activities and strategies under other programs;

   11.   During Open House/Orientation, develop a school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire 

           school staff and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means

           by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve high 

           standards;

   12.   Provide information, to the extent practicable, on programs and activities in a language and form that

           parents understand;

   13.  Annually assess, through consultation with parents, the effectiveness of the parental involvement program 

          and determine what action needs to be taken, if any, to increase parental participation.

   14.  Provide parents a description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, forms of academic

          assessment, expected proficiency levels via beginning of the year "Parent Memo" and district website.

   15.  Organized, systematic, ongoing, informed and timely consultation/information in the planning, review, and

          improvement of parent involvement to decisions about the program; and

• Quarterly newsletters

• Weekly newspaper publications regarding upcoming events

• Annual school calendar

• School wide memos

• Parent reps meet every 6-8 weeks on the district Parent/Family Advisory Council

• School level Parent Advisory Council

• Publication of school profile

• Updated school website

• Title I parent surveys

• School agendas w/policies, procedures, requirements, important dates, grading scale, homework assignments, daily review and signature of parent required.

We, the undersigned, have jointly developed the Hillsboro Elementary Parental Involvement Plan. In order to meet the changing needs of parents and Hillsboro School, the parental plan will be reviewed and revised periodically. This review will occur at least once annually.

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Principal _____________________________________________________________

Parent Volunteer Coordinator _____________________________________________

Local Businessman _____________________________________________________

CC Edu. Foundation/Community Businessman _________________________________

Teacher ______________________________________________________________

Teacher ______________________________________________________________
 

Instructional Coordinator _________________________________________________

Local Businessman ______________________________________________________

PTO - President ________________________________________________________

Parent Advisory Member __________________________________________________
 

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