Title I Annual Parent Meeting
NAME OF SCHOOL
DATE
The next slide is a
suggested Ice breakers
• Having children present for 5
minutes at the beginning may be a
good way to start your T-I meeting
• The next two slides work for me to
get the group started, but they are
just a suggestion.
Dreams to Reality
• What kind of person do you want
your child to be:
– By age 30
What we all want
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The best for our children.
A better future for them.
For them to be successful.
To have a happy life with friends.
To be respectful, honest, hard
working.
• To make more money then we do.
Education is the KEY
What is “No Child Left Behind”?
It is an education act (signed into law in
2002) that aims to:
1. Ensure that every student has a highquality education.
2. Challenge and motivate students
3. Provide high qualified teachers, who use
proven teaching methods
4. Ensure a safe, drug free learning
environment.
What is Title I?
• It is the largest federal assistance
program for our nation’s schools.
• The goal of Title I is a higher quality
of education for every child.
• The program serves millions of
children in elementary and secondary
schools each year. We are a Title I
school
How Title I Works
1. The federal
government provides
funding to states each
year for Title I.
2. The California
Department of
Education sends the
money to the school
district.
3. The school district
identifies eligible
schools and
provides Title I
funds.
4. Each school that
receives T-I funds
uses the School
Site Council to
determine how to
use the funds.
Adequate Yearly Progress
(AYP)
• Schools that receive Title I funds must make AYP
every year or face sanctions
• Goal is that by 6/30/14 all students will be
proficient
• Targets include participation rate and percent
proficient in English language arts and
mathematics
• If you fail AYP for 2 consecutive years you enter
Program Improvement (PI)
• To exit improvement a school must make AYP for
2 consecutive years
We are a PI School
• As you know we are a Program
Improvement School, for the past X
years we have not been able to meet
the AYP.
• When a school is a PI school, there
are certain rights that are granted
to families in PI Schools.
School Choice
• As a parent of a child in a PI school, you have the
choice to transfer your child to a school that is
not in Program Improvement.
• Transportation to the non-Program Improvement
school of choice will be provided on AC Transit
and/or WestCAT at no cost to the family.
• If there is not enough space at your school of
choice, parents are contacted to determine an
alternate school selection or “wait list” placement.
Free Tutoring
• If your child remains enrolled at a PI
school, free tutoring programs, also known
as Supplemental Education Services (SES)
will be provided for eligible students as
space is available.
• A complete informational packet, including
a brochure of state-approved tutoring
providers and an application will be mailed
to your home and available in the school
office by mid-September.
School Accountability
Report Card
What is a School Accountability Report Card (SARC)?
• Since November 1988, state law has required all public schools receiving
state funding to prepare and distribute a SARC. A similar requirement is
also contained in the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The
purpose of the report card is to provide parents and the community with
important information about each public school.
What information does the SARC contain?
• State law requires that the SARC contain all of the following:
• Demographic data
• School safety and climate for learning information
• Academic data
• School completion rates
• Class sizes
• Teacher and staff information
• Curriculum and instruction descriptions
• Postsecondary preparation information
• Fiscal and expenditure data
• AYP information
Understanding NCLB
Program Improvement
120.0
ELA 2-8
Math 2-8
100.0
100.0
89.5
89.2
79.0
78.4
80.0
68.5
67.6
58.0
56.8
60.0
47.5
46.0
2004
26.5
24.4
16.0
13.6
2003
26.5
24.4
16.0
13.6
2002
26.5
24.4
16.0
13.6
20.0
37.0
35.2
40.0
2005
2006
2007
0.0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Educational Standards
• California academic content
standards establish high
expectations for students.
• Standards identify what your child
needs to know and be able to do in
Math, English Language Arts,
Science, and history-social science.
Guess what grade level?
I know how to use quotation marks to
show that someone is speaking.
Example: Mary said, “Hello there.”
I can count, read, and write whole
numbers to 10,000
K-3 we teach to read
4- and beyond we READ to
learn.
Measuring Student
Success
• The following slides are desingned to
expose families to how we measure
mastery of the standards. If you
have already covered this
information at another meeting, you
may remove them, but will have to
provide proof.
Tests Students Take
During the months of March, April and May all public school
students in grades 2-11 throughout the state of California
will be participating in the State Testing and Reporting
(STAR) program.
Components of the program are:
- California Standards Tests (CST)
- California Achievement Tests (CAT6)
- California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA)
- Aprenda 3
- Standards-based tests in Spanish (STS).
LIST DATES IF YOU HAVE THEM
What are CSTs?
• Students in grades 2-11 will take
tests to evaluate their mastery of
the Language Arts Standards and
Mathematics Standards at their own
grade level.
What is STS?
• The STS is an assessment that is
administered in Spanish to evaluate
students’ mastery of Reading-Language
Arts and Mathematics Standards to
students English Learners in grades 2-11
who have been enrolled in a U.S. school for
less than twelve months and to English
Learners who are receiving primary
language instruction in Spanish.
Title I funds we receive
• At this school we receive X amount
of funds as a T-I school to provide
services and programs to our
students.
How we use our T-I
funds
The following programs/services are
paid with T-I funds to support
student learning.
The School Site Council was the group
that determined how to use the
funds.
Title I Programs generally
offer
• Smaller classes
• Additional teachers and
paraprofessionals
• Additional training for school staff
• Extra time for instruction
• Parental Involvement Funds
• A variety of teaching methods and
materials
• List how your T-I funds are used at
this school.
Who decides how funds
are used?
Every school has a School Site Council
(SSC) composed of:
– Parents, Teachers, Other staff that
works at the school, Principal and
Students (at Middle and High School)
Our next meeting will be: X and you are all
invited!
Working together!
Title I law requires that all T-I schools
and families work together.
How we work together is listed in our:
1-School Level Policy
2-School Compact
Our T-I Parent Involvement
Policy requires that:
1. We convenes an annual meeting to
inform parents of Title I students
of Title I requirements and their
rights to be involved in the Title I
program. Offer flexible hours
List here the other times and ways this
meeting information will be
delivered.
2. Involves parents of Title I students in an
organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the
planning, review, and improvement of its
Title I programs and the Title I parental
involvement policy.
LIST WHEN YOUR SSC, ELAC and other
advisory committees meet, and mention if
you need people to join.
3. Provides parents of Title I students
with timely information about Title
I programs.
Here you can list the multiple ways
that the school uses to
communicate, you could ask the
attendees if these methods work
for them, and use the feedback to
improve.
4. Assists Title I parents in
understanding academic content
standards, assessments, and how to
monitor and improve the
achievement of their children.
List what opportunities exist at your
school to meet these requirement.
5. Provides materials and training to
help Title I parents work with their
children to improve their children's
achievement.
If you have a parent lending library list
in here what you offer, if you don’t
please inform your families of what
you do have.
School Compact
List School Responsibilities/Promises
List Family Promises/Responsibilities
List Student Promises/Responsibilities
Parental Involvement
• You have the ability to influence your
child’s education more than any
teacher or school.
• You know your child best. Share
information about your child’s
interests and abilities with teachers.
• Ask to see progress reports on your
child and the school.
What Can I Do To Support My
Child?
• Share a love of
learning
• Read to your child
• Ask your child to read
to you
• Limit TV time
• Take advantage of the
public library and the
school media center
• Show interest in your
child’s school day
• Ask questions
• Ask to see homework
• Praise their efforts
• Encourage good study
habits-set aside a
time and a quiet place
for them to study and
do homework
Get to Know Your School &
Communicate With Teachers
• Attend school events
• Visit the classroom
• Volunteer at the
school
• Join parents’
organizations
• Keep teachers
informed
• Attend special parent
trainings
• Attend parentteacher conferences
• Be prepared for the
meetings
• Consider whether you
have met your
responsibilities as
stated in the parentschool compact
• List your questions
before the meeting