Franklin Pierce School District
Title I Parent Involvement Plan
2015-2016
The Franklin Pierce School District is committed to providing quality education for all
students in our district. To ensure that this happens, we will establish and maintain
partnerships with parents and the community. We believe that when schools effectively
involve parents there is a positive impact on student success.
A. How will parents be involved in the development of the overall district plan
and the process of school review?
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An annual district-wide meeting will be conducted by Learning
Support Services staff in the spring to review/evaluate/revise the
Parent Involvement Plan.
The District-Wide Parental Involvement Plan will be sent to each
building principal to be reviewed by the School Improvement
Planning (SIP) team that includes at least one parent of participating
children, a Title I/LAP teacher, building principal, and other staff
as appropriate.
B. What will the district do to support schools’ effort to coordinate, provide
technical assistance, and to implement effective parental involvement?
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LSS staff will meet with principals and/or
participate in building School Improvement Plan (SIP) meetings to
provide input to its Parental Involvement Plan.
LSS staff will act as resources for developing
parent involvement capacity related to student academic learning.
SIP plans will require a parent involvement action plan and include
copies of the School/Parent Compact.
C. How will the district train, encourage, and support schools in improving
parental involvement?
 An incentive program implemented to increase building parental
involvement (i.e. certificate of appreciation).
 Parent involvement activities, including materials and training, as
described in building SIP plans, will be supported by the district
1% set aside for parent involvement.
 LSS staff will, as requested, provide input and/or attend building
level Title I/LAP parent meetings that share program information.
 The district and building staff will collaborate on the development of
Student Learning Plans to effectively share academic achievement
standards, assessment information, and progress monitoring with
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parents.
Parent Involvement activities/strategies will be shared and discussed
at district-wide Learning Specialist (Title I/LAP) and English
Language Learner (ELL) teacher meetings.
Building Parent Involvement Plans will be reviewed annually by
district administration as part of the SIP plan reviews.
The district will provide interpreters and translators as requested by
principals, to the extent practicable, to ensure that information related
to the school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities as
appropriate.
D. How will the district coordinate linkages to Head Start and state-run preschool
programs and encourage schools to build on parent involvement?
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The district will collaborate on an on-going basis with program
coordinators to discuss continuation of support to preschool programs.
The district will support and encourage communication between
elementary schools and preschool programs through transition
activities, including parental involvement, and Childfind.
E. How will the district conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of parent
Involvement plans?
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Each school will be required to conduct, at least, an annual survey to
collect effectiveness information on various aspects of the parent
involvement plan.
District requirement for participation at meetings, activities, and
conferences will be documented on sign-in sheets.
F. How will the district use the findings of the evaluation to design different
strategies and, if necessary, revise the parent involvement plan?
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The evaluation information for each school will be compiled and
reviewed by the SIP team of that school for parent involvement. This
review will include an assessment of how much parental involvement
is increasing and what barriers must be addressed.
Building level parent involvement evaluation information will be
reviewed at the annual district-wide parent meeting consideration of
policy revisions.
The following seven basic principles are considered essential to home-school
partnerships, and will be emphasized both at the district and building levels:
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Every aspect of the school climate is open, helpful and friendly.
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Communications with parents (whether about school policies and
programs or about their own children) are frequent, clear and twoway.
Parents are treated as collaborators in the educational process, with
a strong complementary role to play in their child’s school learning
and behavior.
Parents are encouraged, both formally and informally, to comment
on school policies and to share in the decision-making.
The principal and other school administrators actively express and
promote the philosophy of partnership with all families.
The school encourages volunteer participation from parents and the
community at large.
The school recognizes its responsibility to forge a partnership with
all families in the school not simply those most easily available.
This policy will be coordinated with building level parent involvement plans and
promoted by district staff, building principals, and other school staff members. The
Franklin Pierce School District administration and staff will provide leadership in the
development of clear avenues of parental involvement. Full realization of the partnership
will be achieved through ongoing commitment and active participation by both home and
school.