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Family Engagement Plan 2018-2019 School Year
School Level Family Engagement
Plan
Each Title I school is required to establish a Family and
Community Engagement Committee. To the extent possible, the Family
and Community Engagement Committee will be a demographic
representation of the school. The school-level Family and Community
Engagement Committee will be responsible for:
- Developing, implementing, and assessing the school-level Family
Engagement Policy.
- Determining what action needs to be taken, if any, to plan and
increase participation in family engagement activities.
- Identifying barriers to participation in family engagement
activities.
- When applicable, integrating parent involvement activities with
existing community agencies such as Tennessee Early Intervention
Services, HeadStart, preschools (public and private), etc.
- The committee will meet twice a year. The Title One Coordinator
at CHMS is Rhonda Richards (rhonda.richards@hck12.net) and the
Family Engagement Coordinator is Autumn Spencer(
autumn.spencer@hck12.net).
Additionally, each school will:
- Annually distribute the Home-School Compact to families at the
beginning of each school year. Discuss the Home-School Compact with
parents and students at parent-teacher conferences. The compact
will also be posted online on the county and school-level
websites.
- Convene an annual parent meeting following State and Federal
Guidelines.
- Address the importance of communication between teachers and
parents
- provide at least two parent-teacher conference dates to address
student progress
- provide frequent child progress reports for parents
- provide parents with reasonable access to staff through phone
numbers, emails and scheduled meetings
- opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child's
class
- opportunities to observe classroom activities following school
procedures
- Provide parents with materials to help parents work with their
children to improve academic achievement
- make the Parent Lending Library easily accessible to
parents
- promote the use of the Lending Library through newsletters,
websites, and classroom communication.
- Provide at least two parent training and activities designed to
increase parents' capacity to help with learning at home.
- Focus on strategies to improve homework, attendance, and
discipline.
- Convene at varying times to accommodate family schedules.
- Invite all families to attend activities through written and
verbal notice.
- To the extent practicable, the school will provide full
opportunities for participation of parents with limited English
proficiency, parents with disabilities and parents of migratory
child.
- Back to School Bash: Parents and students will visit
their new teachers and discuss the upcoming
year.
- (Fall) Sept 18th - Tailgate party: Bring a
parent/guardian and get a free hotdog. Have nearby colleges and
maybe a few other businesses to come hand out info. We plan to have
games for parents and students to play.
- October 26th Halloween Festival Family Games and
Project Display: Along with our haunted house, parents are invited
to attend a display of their child's work this semester. Hand out
information to parents. Provide Math and Literacy related games for
students to play with parent outside.
- Support group for Grandparents and other alternate
parents. We plan to meet twice a semester to give support to those
alternate parents who have questions or seek help with supporting
their students in school.
- Thanksgiving Parent Lunch: Invite parents for the day
we serve the Thanksgiving meal. Hand out information on importance
of test scores or meet with them briefly at an alternate location
as they are leaving.
- Parent Teacher Conferences: School Information and tips
sheets will be provided to parents.
- Science Night: Parents and students will work together
to solve science problems. We will incorporate literacy and math
skills with the problems.
- Provide parents with a student handbook at the beginning of
each year to provide information on
- procedures to learn about the course of study for their child
and have access to all learning materials.
- the right to access their child's official records.
- Utilize the Family Engagement Coordinator for technical
assistance on policy development
- Provide parents with written procedures on how to access the
Parent Involvement Policy, the Hawkins County Schools Family
Engagement Plan, and curriculum.
- Increase parents' capacity to become involved in the
educational process by presenting information in a timely manner
and through various means to include information such as
- a written 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.
- State's academic content standards.
- State student academic achievement standards.
- State and local academic assessments, the requirements of
parent involvement.
- how to monitor a child's progress and work with educators to
improve the achievement of their child.
- CHMS sends out information on REMIND about upcoming
school events, standards, and testing
information.
- CHMS has a TV screen at the front entrance that scrolls
through all school events, reminders, and
schedules,
- Most teachers use REMIND to send out updates about
classroom assignments, test, etc.
- Teachers have individual wesbite pages with a class
syllabus and calendars of class events.
- The school sign in the drop off parking lot advertises
school events.
- Set up meetings requested by parents to give suggestions and be
part of the decision making about their child relating to the
education of their child, and respond to the suggestions as soon as
possible.
- Coordinate parent involvement programs and activities with Head
Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, Even Start, the Home
Instruction Programs for Preschool Youngsters, the Parents as
Teachers Program, and public preschool and other programs, and
conduct other activities, such as parent resource centers.
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- We coordinate with CHIS for transition to middle
school. The 6th graders play sports with our school. At the end of
the year, the 6th graders with their parents are invited for a tour
of our school.
- Our school will work to prepare a Parent Library to
provide parents with helpful literature concerning their child's
success.
- All information about school and parent programs, meetings, and
other activities is sent to the parents in an understandable
language.
- Provide other reasonable support for parental involvement
activities as parents may request.
- Provide full opportunities for the participation of parents
with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and
parents of migratory children, including providing information and
school reports in a language such parents understand.
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100% of the faculty/staff at Church Hill Middle School are Highly Qualified as defined by NCLB.
It is the policy of the Hawkins County School System not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability in its educational programs or employment policies as required by Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title IX (1972 Educational Amendments), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Wes Smith, Title VI Coordinator, ext.2025 • Lori Allen, Title IX, ext. 2021 • Angela Jackson, Section 504 Coordinator ext. 2404.
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