Fairview Attendance Center
Parental Involvement Policy
Fairview Attendance Center believes positive parental involvement is essential to emotional, social, and academic growth and encourages participation of parents in their child’s education.
Strategies to Increase Parental Involvement
Development of the School-Wide policy/Parental Involvement Policy
Fairview Attendance Center will implement the following:
Administer a Parent Survey in the spring of each year which will provide input as to the effectiveness of the School-Wide Program. Data from the surveys will be used to help determine the effectiveness of the school-wide policy.
Involve parents in the development of the School-Wide Title I Policy. The school
wide committee is comprised of parents, teachers, students, and community members. This committee plays a fundamental role in the development of the
School-Wide Policy which includes the Parental Involvement Policy.
Make available to parents and community members the Parental Involvement Policy. This Policy may be found in the school library and the school website.
Parents are informed in the actual document and at the annual meeting that they may make comments if they disagree with any of the content found in the Fairview Parental Involvement Policy.
Annual Parent Meeting and Opportunities for Participation
Fairview Attendance Center will implement the following:
Arrange an annual meeting at the beginning of the school year to inform parents about the school-wide program and Title I requirements and offerings.
Involve parents in the Policy review, and improvement of the school-wide program.
The School-Wide Title I advisory committee includes parents which play an
the Title I School-Wide Policy.
A Parent Survey is administered each spring. Data from these surveys is used
to help determine the effectiveness of the Title I School-Wide Policy. A comment section is included for parents to voice any concerns or submit possible changes.
Provide parents information about programs, curriculum, assessment, and achievement expectations. This information may be dispensed through newsletters, school website, school calendars, the local newspaper, e-mails, and telephone calls.
Continue to add materials to the Parent Center as it relates to Fairview Attendance Center.
Procedures to Submit Comments of Dissatisfaction with the School Parental Involvement Policy
Parents are notified through the school website, annual meetings and in brochures that they may make comments if they disagree with any aspect of Fairview Attendance Center Title I School-Wide Policy. Parents are notified at the annual Title I meeting that the Parent Survey is an excellent opportunity for them to make comments and suggestions for program improvement.
Building Capacity
To ensure effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership among Fairview Attendance Center, parents, and community members that enhances student achievement we:
Parental involvement resource room located at the Central Office.
Shall educate faculty and staff through in-service opportunities of the importance of working with parents to build ties between parents and school. This can be accomplished through faculty meetings and grade level-subject level meetings.
Provide parents with opportunities that explain state academic and achievement standards, state and local assessments, and student progress. This can be accomplished through Parent/Teacher Conferences, Annual Title 1 meeting, MCT 2 Student Profile Reports, student progress reports, student report cards, and the State School Report Card.
Shall work with the PTO to maximize student achievement
Shared Responsibilities for High Student Performance
Fairview Attendance Center uses a district-wide school-parent-student compact. The compact outlines how administrators, school faculty, parents, and students will share responsibility for improved student achievement. It will also provide means by which the school and parents will build a partnership to help students achieve the state’s academic standards. Compacts will be signed by teachers, students, and parents.
Parent’s Right-to-Know
Fairview Attendance Center will provide parents information about their right to know the qualifications of their child’s teacher. Notice of this right and of any person that does not meet the highly qualified criteria required by No Child Left Behind will be sent to parents.
When a student is being taught by a teacher who is not highly qualified, a notification letter is sent home to the parents of those children. When a substitute has been in a classroom for more than four consecutive weeks and is not highly qualified, a notification letter will be sent home to the parents of those children.