Parent Involvement Plan

Milan Elementary School

Under the school principal, Milan Elementary, as a school wide Title I school, shall assess needs, plan, provide coordination and 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 (Those strategies may include use of technology,

differentiated instruction, professional development,etc.)

• 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
• Organized, informed and timely consultation of parents in relation to decisions about the academic program

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
• Provide all parents with progress reports at least 8 times each year
• Conduct, to the extent possible, a 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 or 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 parents with a copy of the school parent involvement plan as well as timely information about activities
• 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 reasonable support for family involvement activities in classrooms
• Coordinate, to the extent possible, family involvement activities and strategies
• Develop 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, to the extent possible, information on programs and activities in a language and form that parents can understand
• Provide information through newsletters, agendas and 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
• Access 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)