Center McMechen Elementary School, and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (participating children), agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the 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 that will help children achieve the State’s high standards. This school-parent compact is in effect during school year 2010-2011.

Center McMechen Elementary School recognizes that students learn more successfully when there are strong relationships between schools, parents, and students.  Please check the items that you will support.  Then sign and return the top WHITE copy; the yellow copy is yours to keep.  Thanks for your cooperation and commitment in helping your child succeed at school!
 

As the parent, I will support my child’s learning – I will do this by:

 Ensuring consistent school attendance.
 Providing a quiet place that is free of distractions where my child completes homework.
 Making sure that homework is finished every evening.
 Limiting the amount of time my child spends watching television, playing video games, surfing the internet, and listening to music.
 Encouraging my child to be a good thinker and problem solver at home and in all of life.
 Talking with my child everyday and encouraging my child to do well in school.
 Volunteering in my child’s classroom and school where I am needed, whenever I possibly can.
 Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my children’s education.
 Promoting positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
 Staying informed about my 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.
 Serving, to the extent possible, on policy advisory groups, such as being the Title I, Part A parent representative on the school’s School Improvement Team, the Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the District wide Policy Advisory Council, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Support Team or other school advisory or policy groups.
 

       Date__________________________  Parent/Guardian Signature________________________________________
 

As the student, I will take responsibility for my own learning and do my best to achieve the State’s high standards.  Specifically, I will:

  Accept 100% responsibility for the FOUR A’s - my Attitude, Actions, Articulation (what I say and how I say it), and Achievement (working my hardest to do my best work every time).
 Attend and participate in school every day that I can possibly do so.
 Spend the time it takes to complete all of my homework as best I can every day and ask for help every time I need to.
 Follow all school and classroom rules and act responsibly to respect the rights of everyone else at school.
 Be interested in and do my best to help the learning of everyone else around me at school.
 Read at least 30 minutes every day outside of school time.
 Commit myself to doing my very best on every school assignment.
 Not give up when I am having trouble with any subject or skill.
 Work hard to be a good thinker and problem-solver at home, school, and in all of life.
 Give to my parents or the adult who is responsible for my welfare all notices and information received by me from my school every day.
 
 
       Date__________________________  Student Signature_______________________________________________

Center McMechen Elementary School will strive to support the learning success of every student.  Specifically, Center McMechen Elementary School will:

1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows –
a. Title I, Intervention Specialist, Speech, and classroom teachers work together, striving to maximize student achievement of established standards in reading and math.
b. Implementing the RtI model to meet the needs of all students.
c. Center McMechen School will provide highly qualified teachers and School-wide Title I services.
2. Hold parent-teacher conferences (at least annually in elementary schools) during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement – date TBA
3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress.  Specifically, the school will provide reports as follows –
a. Interim Report Distribution:      according to county distribution schedule
b. Report Card Distribution:       according to county distribution schedule
4. Provide parents reasonable access to staff.  Specifically, staff will be available for consultation with parents as follows – Parent-staff conferences will be scheduled and conducted upon written or verbal request of any parent.  All reasonable accommodations will be made for all involved staff to participate in the conference meeting.
5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and to observe classroom activities, as follows – Upon request, the principal will schedule a parent visit to any classroom within the school.  Opportunities for parent volunteering within the school are typically coordinated through the PTK.  However, specific requests to volunteer which are not satisfied through this existing procedure will be received and processed through the principal’s office.
6. Involve parents in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s parental involvement policy, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.
7. Involve parents in the joint development of any school-wide program plan, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.
8. Hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in Title I, Part A programs, and to explain the Title I, Part A requirements, and the right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs.  The school will convene the meeting at a convenient time to parents, and will offer a flexible number of additional parental involvement meetings, such as in the morning or evening, so that as many parents as possible are able to attend.  The school will invite to this meeting all parents of children participating in Title I, Part A programs (participating students), and will encourage them to attend.
9. Provide information to parents of participating students in an understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon the request of parents with disabilities, and, to the extent practicable, in a language that parents can understand.
10. Provide to parents of participating children information in a timely manner about Title I, Part A programs that includes a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure children’s progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.
11. On the request of parents, provide opportunities for regular meetings for parents to formulate suggestions, and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions about the education of their children.  The school will respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible.
12. Provide to each parent an individual student report about the performance of their child on the State assessment in at least math, language arts and reading.
13. Provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four (4) or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified within the meaning of the term in section 200.56 of the Title I Final Regulations (67 Fed. Reg. 71710, December 2, 2002).

To help build and develop a partnership with parents to help their children achieve the State’s high academic standards, Center McMechen Elementary School will:
1. Recommend to the local educational agency (LEA), the names of parents of participating children of Title I, Part A programs who are interested in serving on the State’s Committee of Practitioners and School Support Teams (upon request).
2. Notify parents of the school’s participation in WV Universal Pre-K, Head Start, and 21st Century afterschool program operating within the school, the district and the contact information.
3. Work with the LEA in addressing problems, if any, in implementing parental involvement activities in section 1118 of Title I, Part A.
4. Work with the LEA to ensure that a copy of the SEA’s written complaint procedures for resolving any issue of violation(s) of a Federal statute or regulation of Title I, Part A programs is provided to parents of students and to appropriate private school officials or representatives upon request.

 
Date__________________________  School Signature_______________________________________________
 
 
 
 

 
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