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Parent and Community Involvement Plan
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Priority Addressed: Parent, Family and Community Involvement
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Goal: To increase the perception of family friendliness among families and
community members by 10% per year at each school as measured by the District
Family Friendly Survey beginning with the 2005-2006 school year.
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Action Steps:
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Timeline
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Persons Responsible
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Required Resources
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Funding Source(s)
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Develop procedures for obtaining input from parents/community on board and
school policies
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2005-2006
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Systemwide Leadership Team, Principal, Parent and Teacher Advisory boards
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Administrators time, existing policy manuals, system web site
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None
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Each school will develop an annual plan for parental engagement that includes
opportunities for volunteering, parent education, home support for the child's
education, teacher/parent conferences, parent participation in school decision
making, etc.
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July 2005-December 2005 and ongoing yearly.
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Principal, Teachers, school staff, parents and community
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Time
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None
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Include parents and community stakeholders on all appropriate system- wide and
school committees
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2005-2006 and ongoing
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Director and Assistant
Director of Schools, principals
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None
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None
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Increase opportunities for parents and the public to become informed about
issues in education
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2005-2006 and reviewed annually
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Director of Schools, public relations coordinator
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None
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None
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Begin updating, redesigning, and developing existing web site for the school.
Include a parent link that contains strategies to improve homework.
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2005-2006 and reviewed annually
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Director of Technology, Leadership Team, Technology Coordinators,
Communications Coordinator, web master
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District and School webmasters, Time
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Regular Budget, Technology
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Appoint Systemwide FACET (Family and Community Engagement Team) composed of
representatives from each school, school board, central office and community
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September 2005 and each year thereafter in August or September
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Director of Schools, Assistant Director of Schools, School Board, Leadership
Team with input from staff
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None
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None
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Action Steps:
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Timeline
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Persons Responsible
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Required Resources
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Funding Source(s)
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Establish responsibilities of the FACET.
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September 2005 and each year thereafter
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Director of Schools, Assistant Director of Schools, School Board, Leadership
Team with input from staff and school advisory boards
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None
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NA
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Develop and communicate written procedures so that parents may learn about the
course of study for their children and have access to all learning materials
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Fall 2005 and each year thereafter
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Director of Schools, Assistant Director of Schools, Leadership Team with input
from staff and school advisory boards
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E-mail, school and system newsletters, school and system websites
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School system funds for duplicating, paper, and postage.
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Develop and communicate written procedures for parents to access the School
District Parent Involvement Policy, The School District Parent Involvement
Plan, and the curriculum.
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Fall 2005 and each year thereafter
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Director of Schools, Assistant Director of Schools, Leadership Team with input
from staff and school advisory boards
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E-mail, school and system newsletters, school and system websites
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School system funds for duplicating, paper, and postage.
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Improve the appearance of schools to increase the “family friendliness” level
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Fall 2005 and each year thereafter
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Assistant Director of Schools, Leadership Team with input from staff and
school advisory boards
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Maintenance
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Regular Budget
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Professional Development Plan (Steps or Strategies) to Support Action
Steps: The Team who attended the Family
Friendly Schools institute will disseminate the information learned and
present it to the principals at Leadership Team meetings.
Each principal will then conduct meetings to analyze their current parent,
family, community involvement and provide staff development for teachers to
increase the involvement of parents/ guardians in the educational process.
Staff development opportunities will also be provided to enable educators and
families to work together effectively as partners in the educational process.
Parent & Community Involvement (Steps or Strategies) to Support Action
Steps: System wide parent advisory board
will provide ideas, suggestions for increasing parent involvement and help
developing procedures for obtaining input on policies.
Parents will provide input on each school’s annual parental engagement plans.
This information will be used to improve the effectiveness of family
involvement plans and activities.
EVALUATION PLAN
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GOAL: To increase the perception of family friendliness among families and
community members by 10% per year at each school as measured by the District
Family Friendly Survey beginning with the 2005-2006 school year.
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Action Steps
(from Action Plan)
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Data Source
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Procedures:
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Timeframe
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Responsibility
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Results:
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Develop procedures for obtaining input from parents/community on board and
school policies
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Board members, parent advisory group
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Develop procedures
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2005-2006
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Systemwide Leadership
Team, Principal, parent and teacher advisory boards
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x Used
x Shared
Share procedures with school staff and families
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Each school will develop an annual plan for parental engagement that includes
opportunities for volunteering, parent education, home support for the child's
education, teacher/parent conferences, parent participation in school decision
making, etc.
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Listing of current opportunities
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Develop an annual plan Collect all data sources including current
opportunities. Analyze Family Friendly Schools survey -
Communication and Involvement domains
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July 2005-Dec. 2005
Summer 2005
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Principals, teachers, school staff, parents and community,
Director of Schools,
Leadership Team
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~ Used
~ Shared
Share plans with Leadership Team and school staff
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Include parents and community stakeholders on all appropriate system-wide and
school committees
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List of current involvement
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Collect all data sources
Analyze results
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2005-2006
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Leadership team
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~ Used
~ Shared
Share lists of committees
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Increase opportunities for parents and the public to become informed about
issues in education
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Newspaper articles, system wide newsletter, school newsletters, TV station,
radio
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Develop a public relations plan
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2005-2006
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Director of Schools,
Coordinator of
Communication
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~ Used
~ Shared
Share list of opportunities with parents
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Action Steps
(from Action Plan)
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Data Source
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Procedures:
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Timeframe
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Responsibility
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Results:
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Increase number of parent involvement workshop opportunities for parents/
guardians of all students but especially focus on the at- risk students and
families.
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Listing of current opportunities Survey of parents to determine needs
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Develop listing of possible parent involvement opportunities or needs of
parents for workshops. Collect information about current opportunities Analyze
surveys and current data
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2005-2006
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Director of Schools.,
Leadership Team, school staff, parent advisory groups,
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~ Used
~ Shared
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Begin updating, redesigning and developing existing web site for the school.
Include a parent link that contains strategies to improve homework.
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Web pages, other school systems web pages
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N/A
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December 2005
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Assistant Director of Schools,
Communications
Coordinator, principals
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X Share results with parents and community and notify through newsletters and
TV that web site is updated.
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Appoint Systemwide Parent, Family and Community Advisory council composed of
representatives from each school, school board, central office and community
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List of parents on committee
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Input will be obtained from each school for possible members for this
committee. Director and Assistant Director of Schools will review list and a
diverse group of parents, school personnel and community members will be
selected. The board will unofficially approve this committee list. This
committee membership will change each school year.
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Fall 2005
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Director of Schools. Assistant Director of Schools,
principals and teachers
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Shared
List of committee members will be shared with the schools
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Action Steps
(from Action Plan)
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Data Source
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Procedures:
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Timeframe
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Responsibility
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Results:
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Establish responsibilities of the Parent, Family, and Community Advisory
council.
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Family Friendly
Schools training information,
State Dept. list of requirements for Parent Involvement
Plan, List of responsibilities produced
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Information from the
Family Friendly Schools training and the rubric from the State Dept. of
Education will be used to establish some basic responsibilities of the
Parent, Family, Community
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August and September 2005
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Assistant Director of Schools, Director of Schools, School Board, Leadership
Team
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Shared
Responsibilities will be shared with the school board, school leadership team,
Parent, Family, Advisory committee and with interested parents at all the
schools.
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Develop and communicate written procedures so that parents may learn about the
course of study for their children and have access to all learning materials
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System leadership team, school leadership teams and teachers, state department
of education
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Discussion will be held at all school campuses on various ways parents may
learn about the students course of study and access to all learning materials.
These ways will be communicated to the parents in a variety of ways.
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September
2005 and ongoing throughout the school year.
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System leadership team, principals and school leadership teams, teachers
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Shared
Written procedures will be shared with the parents and community.
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Develop and communicate written procedures for parents to access the School
District Parent Involvement
Policy, The School District Parent Involvement Plan and the curriculum.
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List of current procedures
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Discussion will be held with the leadership team and the Systemwide Parent
Advisory Committee. Procedures will be developed.
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October 2005 and ongoing through the year.
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Director of Schools, Assistant Director of Schools, Leadership
Team, Systemwide
Parent Advisory
Committee,
Communications
Coordinator
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Shared
Share list of procedures with parents through newsletters and e-mail.
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Improve the appearance of schools to increase the “family friendliness” level
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Results from survey and team suggestions
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Discussion will be held with the leadership team and the Systemwide Parent
Advisory Committee
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Summer 2005 and ongoing
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Regular Budget
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X Share results with parents and community and notify through newsletters and
TV that web site is updated.
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