Milan Middle School

Parent Involvement Plan

Milan Middle School

Under the school principal and assistant principals, Milan Middle, as a school wide Title I school, shall assess needs, plan, provide coordination, technical assistance, and implement an educational program to ensure that all children will meet and exceed the state academic content standards. The school program will operate according to NCLB guidelines which include, but are not limited to the following:

• Strategies to increase parental/family involvement and enhance family literacy services (use of technology, differentiated instruction, professional development, etc.)
• Organized, informed and timely consultation of parents in relation to decisions about the academic program
• Parent input into the planning, design, and implementation of educational activities
• The involvement of parents through activities and procedures which are of sufficient size, scope, and quality to give reasonable promise of substantial progress toward achieving the required goals

To ensure that parents, both English speaking and non-English speaking, have an adequate opportunity to participate in the planning, designing and implementing of the educational program, the school shall:

• Convene an annual meeting to discuss Title I and Parental Involvement in the fall of each year, to which all parents must be invited, to explain the educational program, activities, and materials available
• Make parents aware of parental involvement requirements and other relevant provisions of NCLB to include, but not be limited to, the use of materials to help their child at home
• Provide parents with a copy of the school parent involvement plan, and timely information about activities
• Utilize a school/parent/student compact that outlines how parents, teachers and students will share the responsibility for improving student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help students achieve high standards
• Provide all parents with progress reports at least 12 times each year (mid-grading period and with report cards)
• Provide information through newsletters, agendas, and a school website about programs, activities, curriculum, assessment and trainings held several times a year and at various times of the day in order to accommodate families
• Conduct at least one parent/teacher conference each fall to discuss the child’s progress and ways parents can complement the child’s ability to meet and/or exceed state and national standards
• Make educational personnel readily accessible to parents by providing times in each day for conferences, emails, or phone calls
• Provide opportunities, through the Parent Advisory Council (PAC), which is open to all parents, for regular meetings to formulate parental input into school activities
• Provide reasonable support for family involvement activities in classrooms
• Coordinate, to the extent possible, family involvement activities and strategies
• Provide, to the extent possible, information on programs and activities in a language and form that parents can understand
• Assess annually, through consultation with parents, the effectiveness of the family involvement program and determine needed actions to increase family involvement
• Provide access to parents and include their input in the development and implementation of the TCSPP (Tennessee Comprehensive System wide Planning Process) and the TSIP (Tennessee School Improvement Plan)