Family Engagement Policy and Parent Compact
Leaphart Elemenatary School
STEAM Magnet
School-Family-Student Compact
Our learning community of teachers, support staff, administrators, and families, have written this compact to outline how the entire school staff and 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 to help children achieve the State’s high standards.
School Responsibilities
Our administrators, teachers, and support staff will:
Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows:
Provide targeted academic and behavioral supports to students ensuring all subgroups of students meet their learning targets
Ensure a safe environment conducive to learning
Progress monitoring with formative assessments are used for all students to ensure all students make at least a year’s growth in Reading and Math
Curriculum is aligned to State Academic Content Standards
Enrichment activities are provided to enhance and support higher – level learning
Hold parent-teacher conferences in the first nine weeks each year during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement. Specifically, those conferences will be held:
Scheduled conferences are held in October. The date will be advertised and sent home to parents. Parents and teachers may also schedule conferences, as needed, throughout the school year.
Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress. Specifically, the school will provide reports as follows:
Interim Reports are sent home for parents to review four times a year, mid-quarter. Parents are invited to ask questions about their child’s report.
Report cards are sent home quarterly. Parents are invited to contact their child’s teacher with questions.
Provide parents reasonable access to staff. Specifically, staff will be available for consultation with parents as follows:
Phone and voicemail
Written notes in child’s agenda (daily assignment log)
One scheduled conference a year and additional conferences as requested by the parent or teacher.
Provide parents opportunities to support their child’s education and the education of all Leaphart Elementary School students by participating in Leaphart Elementary School as follows:
Join children for lunch
Chaperone field trips
Observe classrooms
Serving on the PTO
Volunteering as a tutor, mentor or activity leader
Assist in an area of the school such as our children’s classroom, library and playground
Attend school events such as Open House, performances, field day, etc.
Help to review Title I plans and compacts
Participate on School District Five committees
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School-Family-Student Compact
Family Responsibilities
Our families will support our children’s learning in the following ways:
Ensuring our children attend school and come to school on time
Reading and signing student agendas daily
Helping our children complete their homework to the best of their ability by:
Encouraging our children to do their best work
Helping our children understand directions for assignments
Talking with our children about learning and school in a positive way
Notifying the teacher when our child has difficulty completing homework assignments
Keeping in contact with our child’s teacher
Attending our children’s parent-teacher conferences and other meetings pertaining to our children
Monitoring amount of television and the types of television programs our children watch
Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to our children’s education
Promoting positive use of our child’s time at home and in the community
Staying informed about our child’s education and communicating with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and responding, as appropriate
Our families are able to participate in our school by:
Advocating for our children
Attending school events such as Open House, musical performances, field day, etc.
Attending PTO meetings
Volunteering as a reading tutor or mentor
Assisting in an area of the school such as:
classrooms
library
school store
cafeteria
book fairs
Helping to review Title I plan and compact
Participating on School District Five committees
Attending School Board meetings
Student Responsibilities
Students will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the state’s high standards. Specifically, I will:
Take responsibility for my own behavior
Come to school with supplies, ready to learn and determined to do my best
Cooperate, listen, follow directions and ask for help when I need it
Complete and return all homework assignments
Read every day outside of school time
Return all materials that require a parent's signature
Respect other students, adults and their property
Take care of my school and do what I can to make it better