WELLFORD ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2024-2025 TITLE I PARENT AND FAMILY POLICY

This Policy was approved at the School’s May 16, 2024 Title One Meeting. It is the policy of the administration, faculty and staff of your child’s school to:

● Involve parents, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the planning, review, and improvement of programs. This will be accomplished through meetings, newsletters, surveys, and periodic updates.

● Hold an Annual Title I Meeting to inform parents of their school’s participation in Title I and to explain its requirement. This annual meeting will be held at parent breakfasts/open house in the fall.

● Provide information to parents in a timely manner through newsletters and parent conferences.

● Provide opportunities for parents to volunteer.

● Provide parents with explanations of the school’s overall student achievement and their child’s individual student test results. Individual student’s progress will be shared through parent conferences, and the school’s overall achievement will be shared through the school report card and through school newsletters.

● Provide parents a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the assessments used to measure student progress, and the ability levels students are expected to meet.

● Offer regular and flexibly scheduled meetings for parents to make suggestions, share experiences, and participate in decisions relating to the education of their child.

● Provide timely responses to parents’ suggestions.

● Develop and distribute a School-Parent compact.

● Provide parent involvement programs that provide materials and training to help parents work with educators as partners to monitor and improve their child’s achievement as follows:

1) Parent Educator

2) Parent / Teacher Conferences

3) Frequent Reports on Students’ Progress

4) Parent Workshops

5) Family Nights

● Make sure that information related to school and parent programs is sent to the parents in a format and language that parents can understand.

● Provide other practical support for parental involvement activities as parents may request and as follows:

1) Parent meetings

2) Family meals and breakfasts with class sharing time

3) Volunteer Opportunities

4) Parent training opportunities

5) Family Nights

Parent Signature: ______________________________________________

Student name: _________________________________________________

Administrative Signature: ________________________________________