River Eves Elementary School Title I Annual Parent Meeting May 29, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

River Eves Elementary School Title I Annual Parent Meeting May 29, 2016 5:30PM River Eves Media Center NEIL PINNOCK, PRINCIPAL

 1. What is a Title I school? What is a School-Parent Compact? 2. How does our school spend Title I money? 10. Is my child’s teacher highly qualified? Agenda  3. How does our school participate in the Title What is a parent’s right to know? I Program? 11. How is Title I Parent Involvement money 4. What are our school’s Title I requirements? spent? 5. What is our school’s Designation Status? 12. What opportunities does the school  What does this status mean? provide for parent involvement?  6. River Eves’ Schoolwide Program List parent engagement opportunities • What are our schoolwide goals? offered for school or home  • What programs/supports are in place List volunteer opportunities  to help my child? List parent decision making 7. What curriculum does our school use? opportunities/meetings/councils 8. What tests will my child be taking? 13. How responsive will the school be to my  How do these tests measure my child’s questions when staff is contacted?  progress? Provide staff contact information  What proficiency levels is my child 14. Questions, closing and evaluations expected to meet? 9. What is required by law for parent involvement?  What is the district's Parent Involvement Policy?  What is the school’s Parent Involvement Policy?

What is a Title I School? • River Eves Elementary School is identified as a Title I school as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). • Title I is designated to support State and local school reform efforts tied to challenging State academic standards in order to reinforce and enhance efforts to improve teaching and learning for students . • Title I programs must be based on effective means of improving student achievement and include strategies to support parent involvement .

How does our school spend Title I Money? (2016-2017) Instructional Substitute Materials & Teachers $1,650 Supplies $7,056 1% 5% Title I Budget – 1% Mandatory for Parent Involvement Parent Workshops & Registrations Personnel (Two Teachers, (Parent Liaison fulfils $147,264 Fees for PLs $640 Two 0.5 Parent Liaisons, 3 that requirement.) 1% Extended Day Teachers) $132,430 93% • Title I Parent Involvement Funds are a resource to support academic achievement and parent involvement. • You, as Title I parents, have the right to be involved in how this money is spent.

How does our school participate in the Title I program? • Additional staff members to lower the student- teacher ratio • Additional resources for technology and instruction • Parent involvement resources

What is our school’s designation status? (What does this mean?) River Eves Elementary School has not been given a school designation this year which means we are a Title I school that is continuing to provide a quality education to all of our students.

River Eves’ Schoolwide Program Schoolwide goals: • SMART GOAL #1 The percentage of students in grade 5 scoring at the proficient or distinguished on the Georgia Milestones social studies will increase by 3% for each grade in 2016. • SMART GOAL #2 The percentage of students in grades 1-5 scoring On/Above on STAR (Universal Screener) Reading will increase from 67% in Spring 2016 to 72% in Spring 2017. • SMART GOAL #3 The percentage of students in grades 3-5 scoring at the proficient or distinguished on the Georgia Milestones math will increase by 3% for each grade in 2016.

River Eves’ Schoolwide Program Various programs/supports are in place to help students: Progams Supports  STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)  Extended Day  PBL (Project Based Learning)  Early Intervention Program  AVID (Advancement via Individual  ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)  Special Education Determination)  RtI (Response to Intervention)  TAG (Talented and Gifted )

What curriculum does our school use? Georgia Standards of Excellence  Reading, Language Arts, and Math Georgia Performance Standards*  Science and Social Studies * changing to Georgia Standards of Excellence 2017-18 www.georgiastandards.org

What tests will my child be taking? What proficiency levels How do these tests measure my Assessment Who will take this test? Dates is my child expected to child’s progress? meet? 3 rd : Oct 17 – 21 Iowa Grades 3 and 5 Student performance is 5 th : Oct 24 - 28, 2016 Assessment compared with a nationally 50th percentile or (Formerly: ITBS) representative sample of higher students who took the tests. Georgia Grades 3,4: April 17 – May 5, 2016 Beginning Learners do not yet demonstrate proficiency in the  Math knowledge and skills necessary at this grade level/course of Milestones  English Language learning, as specified in Georgia’s content standards. Developing Learners demonstrate partial proficiency in the Arts knowledge and skills necessary at this grade level/course of learning, as specified in Georgia’s content Grade 5: standards. Proficient Learners demonstrate proficiency in  Math the knowledge and skills necessary at this grade level/course  English Language of learning, as specified in Georgia’s content standards. Arts Distinguished Learners demonstrate advanced proficiency in  Science the knowledge and skills necessary at this grade level/course  Social Studies of learning, as specified in Georgia’s content standards.

What tests will my child be taking? How do these tests What proficiency Assessment Who will take this test? Dates measure my child’s levels is my child progress? expected to meet? ACCESS Testing English Language Jan 17 – Mar 1, 2017 Student English Entering, Learners language proficiency Emerging, is measured in Developing, speaking, listening, Expanding, and reading, and writing Bridging levels (Bridging qualifies student for exiting the ESOL program) Georgia Kindergarten Kindergarten Year-Long Performance ELA, Math, Social Students are Studies, and Science Inventory of Developing Based Assessment expected to meet standards will be Skills (Gkids) or exceed) the assessed using two to standard by the five performance levels end of the year. for each element.  Not Yet Demonstrated  Emerging 

Testing Information Link to Sept. 19, 2016 Parent Information “Testing” Workshop PowerPoint: https://app.nearpod.com/presentation?pin=63293149C9161BF7424DCB38D51A E8F4-1

What is required by law for parent involvement? Parent Involvement Parent Notifications  Parent Involvement Plan  Multiple methods/dates notifications  Parent’s Right to Know – Student (PIP)  School-Parent Compact Achievement  Parent Resource Center  Parent’s Right to Know – Non-Highly  Parent Meetings Qualified Teachers  Parent Workshops Title I Parent Liaison facilitates all of these tasks.

District Parent Involvement Statement The Fulton County Schools Title I Parent and Family Engagement Statement for 2016-2017:  was jointly developed using input from parents of children in Title I schools  Describes how the district will provide assistance to Title I schools  Identifies opportunities for parent consultation & feedback  Highlights ways in which the district will support school and parent capacity for strong parental involvement  Provides information on methods used each year to evaluate content and effectiveness of the districtwide parent and family engagement statement Link to 2016-2017 District Parent Involvement Statement: http://www.fultonschools.org/en/divisions/acd/supportserv/TitleI/FY15%20Parent%20Involvement/District%20Paren tal%20Involvement%20Statement%20FY17%20Revised%20(Autosaved).pdf#search=parent%20involvement%20plan

River Eves Parent Involvement Plan (PIP) Unaware • Describes opportunities to improve parent 14% Very Valuable 28% engagement to support student learning. • Recognizes value of parent contributions & Aware but did not involvement of parents to establish an equal review 26% partnership toward improving student achievement. Somewhat Not Valuable Valuable 4% • 28% Highlights parent engagement opportunities • Describes how parents can help plan and Draft of River Eves 2016-2017 Parent participate in activities and events to promote Involvement Plan available during Annual Title I parent Meeting and will be sent student learning at school and at home. home upon district approval.

School-Parent Compact The School-Parent Compact describes: Survey Results: 15/16 School-Parent Compact 1. The school’s responsibility to provide high -quality curriculum and instruction Unaware Very Valuable 12% 21% 2. Ways in which parents will be responsible for supporting their children’s learning 3. The importance of communication between teachers and Somewhat Valuable parents on an ongoing basis through the following: 13%  Parent-teacher conferences Aware but did not  Reports to parents on student progress review Not Valuable 44%  Access to staff and volunteer opportunities 10%  Participation in classroom activities, and observations Draft of River Eves 2016-2017 school-home compact is available of classroom activities during Annual Title I parent Meeting and will be sent home upon district approval.

Is my child’s teacher highly qualified? YES! 100% of River Eves teachers are highly qualified per federal and state guidelines