Eastwood Elementary School: Important Documents

Eastwood Elementary School Wide Title I Parent Compact

by Jill Miller

EASTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT

The Eastwood Elementary School and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (participating children), agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.

School Responsibilities

The Eastwood Elementary School will:

1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows:

The principal will:

• Provide a safe and supportive learning environment

• Provide an environment that allows for a positive atmosphere between teacher,

parent and student

• Encourages teachers to regularly provide homework assignments that will

reinforce classroom instruction

The teachers will:

• Provide core subject, researched based curriculum that is aligned to the Illinois

State Learning Standards, Performance Descriptors and Illinois Assessment

Frameworks.

• Provide innovative instruction in a variety of learning styles

• Provide homework that supplements daily concepts

• Provide necessary assistance to parents so that they can help with daily

assignments

School wide Title I funds provide push-in remedial services in reading. Screening, progress monitoring and outcome measure assessments will be utilized to provide flexible groups for instruction.

2. Hold parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will

be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement.

Specifically, these conferences will be held:

• Fall Conferences – November with flexible morning, afternoon and evening times

• Spring Conferences – April with flexible morning, afternoon and evening times

• On-Going Conferences – Feel free to contact your child’s teacher regarding

academic progress

3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress.

• Mid-Term Progress Reports

• Quarterly Report Cards

• Standardized Test Results such as Illinois Standards Achievement Test will be

disseminated yearly

• During fall and spring Parent Teacher Conferences, leveled reading

assessments will be discussed with parents

4. Provide parents reasonable access to staff.

• Additional Parent Teacher Conferences should be scheduled during teacher’s

planning period. Please call for an appointment.

• District voice-mail system allows access to teachers daily. Phone extensions will

be placed in Eastwood September Newsletter.

• District and School Website allows access to teacher’s e-mail.

• District Website will provide access to monthly calendar, newsletter, and lunch

menu. In addition, annual school report cards and School Improvement plans are

available.

• Homework and assignment notebooks allow daily journaling between teacher and

parent.

5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their

child’s class and to observe classroom activities, as follows:

• Scheduled classroom visits

• Monthly Parent Advisory Board Meetings

• Fall Meet the Teacher Night

• Book Bee

• Field Trips

• Fundraisers

• Extra Curricular Activities

• Young Author’s Program

• Parent Education Program

• Reading in the Classroom

• Room Parents

Parent Responsibilities

We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:

Parents will support their children’s learning, such as:

Monitor attendance.
Provide supplies necessary for learning
Attend Meet the Teacher Night, School wide Title I Open House, and Parent Teacher Conferences to bridge the gap between home and school.
Ensure that homework is completed.
Provide reading materials at home and read with their child
Establish a timeline and space for homework
Provide a library card and visit the local library
Monitor the amount of television children watch.
Volunteering in child’s classroom.
Participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’s education.
Promote positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
Stay informed about my child’s education and communicate with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and respond, as appropriate.
Serve, to the extent possible, on policy advisory groups, such as being the Title I, Part a parent representative on the school’s School Improvement Team, the Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the District-wide Policy Advisory Council, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Support Team or other school advisory or policy groups.