Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Parent Involvement Plan PDF Print E-mail
2011-2012

 

1.     The expectations for parent involvement activities, how these activities will be implemented and evaluated.

Parents will be expected to read to children, provide space for homework, monitor TV and bedtimes, and encourage proper eating habits.

2.    How parents will participate in the development of strategies.

In a small community such as Alachua, parents are in constant contact with both each other and school staff. ALC administration and faculty are consciously and deliberately available to parents.  

 3.     How parents will participate in an annual evaluation of the content and effectiveness of the parent involvement program. 

Parents will meet with the Title I team in March 2009 to evaluate 2008-2009 success and provide input into 2009-2010 funding priorities.

4.     How timely responses to parents’ suggestions will be addressed.

Parent suggestions are always welcomed. ALC provides time and space for frank and open discussions of any ideas that may impact the children.

5.     Shared responsibility of parents and educators for high student performance.

This is to be implemented through a school-parent compact for each child served by Title I under which the two parties agree on how they will work together to help the child achieve the state’s standard (include a copy of the actual compact). See attached brochure for the current compact.

6.     Provisions for an annual school meeting at a convenient time, to which all parents of participating children shall be invited and encouraged to attend, to inform parents of their school’s participating in Title I and their right to be involved.

Parents’ night is scheduled in mid-September every year. Parents are informed of general programs and interested parents are recruited.

7.     Provision for a flexible number of meetings, such as meeting in the morning or evening, and how funds provided under this part, transportation, childcare, or home visits as such services relate to parental involvement activities.

Board Meetings (Tuesdays at 3:00pm), and weekly  Staff Meetings (Wednesdays at 2:00).  

8.     How parents will be provided timely information about parent involvement activities.

Primarily through communications sent home with pupils. Also web based software, currently under development. Occasionally US Mail

9.     How parents will be provided with school performance profiles and their child’s individual student assessment results, including an interpretation of those results.

Comprehensive Annual Report (January) and Florida SPAR Report (November) widely distributed.

10.    How parents will be provided a description and explanation of the curriculum used at the school, the National Education Goals, the State’s content standards and student performance standards, the form of assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet. (Ex. School improvement plan)

Charter Schools provide annual reports (which detail ALC’s financial and academic performance), maintain a web site, maintain an interactive web driven forum (achieve.com), and distribute ALC and District information.   

11.    Provisions for materials and training such as:

Coordinating necessary literacy training from other sources to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s achievement:

ALC makes a special effort to team up ESOL children with native speakers out side of school.

Training to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s achievement:

Frequent meetings with parents allow ALC to coach parents on a case-by-case basis.   

12.     Provisions for educating teachers, pupil services personnel, principals, and other staff, with the assistance of parents, in value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners, implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between home and school.

As with all Charter Schools, parental involvement is enthusiastic and wide spread. Several parents volunteer as school staff.

13.    To the extent feasible and appropriate, provisions for coordinating and integrating parent involvement programs and activities with Head Start, Even Start, the Home Instructions Program for Preschool Youngsters, the Parents as Teachers Program, and public preschool programs.

Since ALC begins at Kindergarten, we have not actively pursued cooperative relationships with pre-Kindergarten programs.

14.     Plans for developing partnership between elementary schools and local businesses that include a role for parents.

Many employers of parents have taken an active role in the ALC experiment.

15.     To the extent feasible and appropriate, provisions for parent resource centers. 

16.     To the extent possible information relating to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to the homes of participating children in the language used in the home.

All correspondence is sent in English; however, ALC has Portuguese, Spanish, and Hindi (the three largest groups of ESOL families) speakers on its staff that can explain and clarify policies and procedures.

17.  Distribute parent’s rights booklet.
 
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