Title I: Parental Involvement

Peoria District #150 is committed to family involvement!

Peoria District #150 is committed to family involvement! The Title I Office focused this past year on a comprehensive parent involvement initiative involving teachers and community members beginning with a parent involvement institute and joining the National Network of Partnership Schools.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

District #150 Title I schools and the Title I Office have joined the National Network of Partnership Schools. The National Network is a network of over 1700 schools nationwide. The Network is focused on the research of Joyce Epstein and based on the book School, Family, and Community Partnerships.

If you need the membership form to become an National Network Partnership School, click here.

Need the template for your action plan? Click Here

Peoria Public School District #150 Parent Partnership Leaders:
District #150 has joined the National Network for Partnership Schools. In addition, each Title I school has identified a leader within their individual school to help lead the charge of family involvement. The following individuals are a part of the district team:

Anne Castagna and Jean Horsky – Columbia Middle School

Deanne Tucker-White - Franklin Edison

Linda Rex – Garfield Primary School

Wanda Binion and Rosa Lopez – Harrison Primary School

Dawn Mabis-Mitchell – Irving Primary School

Bobbie Shults – Kingman Primary School

Kathy Phillips - Lincoln Middle School

Stan Hangen – Manual High School
Angela Michanicou – Roosevelt Magnet School

Dawn Gersich, Karen Kolb, Kim Summer, Roz Swain, and Sandra Weede– Sterling Middle School

Alice Moore - Trewyn Middle School

Joanne Helenek – Tyng Primary School

Elaine Greer and Jodi Walschaert – Valeska Early Childhood Center
Nicole Stroup – Woodrow Wilson Primary School
Becky Lindholm – ELL Lead Teacher
A special thanks to our community partners:
Joyce Banks – Community Builders
Shirley Dresden – Common Place
Helen Jenkins – Common Place

For email addresses, check out the '08 - '09 Parent Involvement Contact Sheet

ATTENTION ACTION TEAMS - Have you been working on your plan or details of activities you have planned for next year? Plans for the 07-08 school year are due to Title I by August 24th. You may submit them now or at the beginning of the year.

Check out the PDF document with information and ideas!

Parental Involvement School Requirements

Three decades of research provides convincing evidence that parents are an important influence in helping their children achieve high academic standards. The schools collaborate with parents to help their children learn and when parents participate in school activities and decision-making about their children's education, children achieve at higher levels. Children do best when parents are enabled to play four key roles in their children's learning: teachers (helping children at home), supporters (contributing their skills to the school), advocates (helping children receive fair treatment), and decision makers (participating in joint problem-solving with the school at every level). (Henderson and Berla, 1994)

Parents involvement with their children's schools can take many forms. Those forms need to be determined at two levels. One is at the school district level were general policies are determined. The other is at each school so that parental involvement is tailored to meet each child's, parent's, and schools needs and capabilities

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS
UNDER NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT

Each school receiving Title I funds is to have a written parental involvement policy. The policy is to be developed with participation of the parents of participating children. Parents shall be notified of the policy in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, provided in a language the parents can understand. Such policy shall be made available to the local community and updated periodically to meet the changing needs of parents and the school. The Parental Involvement Policy is to describe how the school will:
• Involve parents in the development of the policy and how such opportunity will be communicated to the parents of participating children. Section 1118 (c) delineates specific communication requirements with parents that schools are to undertake.
• Through the school-parent compact explain how school staff and parents will be jointly responsible for improving the students' academic performance.
• Assist parents in becoming effective participants in their children's education.
• Provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children, including providing information and school reports required under Section 1111 in a format and, to the extent practicable, in a language such parents understand.

For full text of the Act, go to:

http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/index.html

Keep track of all the statute's parent involvement mandates at the school and district levels with this Title I parental involvement checklist (pdf).

Make sure you're following other requirements when it comes to parent involvement with this "Did You Know" fact sheet (pdf).

Links for Parents

This website is a valuable resource for parents on how to help a teen who is abusing drugs or how to prevent teen drug abuse.

www.theantidrug.com

Are you thinking about enrolling your student in Supplemental Education Services (SES)? Before you sign up, be sure to ask SES providers questions so you know which program is best suited for your student's needs.

SES Parent Questions (pdf)