Hooks ISD Title I Parent Involvement

1. Hooks ISD Title I Parent Involvement Shiva McCraw Director of Curriculum Special Programs

2. AGENDA • WELCOME/INTRODUCTION • Title One – What is it? How do we qualify as a district? • ABC’S OF PARENT INVOLVEMENT • SURVEY • COMMENTS/QUESTIONS • ADJOURN

3. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 : TITLE I funding is to help IMPROVE THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED The PURPOSE. to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments. This purpose can be accomplished by — (1) ensuring that high-quality assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with state standards (2) meeting the educational needs of low-achieving children in our Nation's highest-poverty schools, limited English proficient children, migratory children, children with disabilities, neglected or delinquent children, and young children in need of reading assistance; (3) closing the achievement gap between high- and low-performing children, (4) holding schools, local educational agencies, and States accountable for improving the academic achievement of all students (5) distributing and targeting resources (6) improving and strengthening State assessment systems designed to ensure that students are meeting challenging State academic achievement and content standards and increasing achievement overall, but especially for the disadvantaged; (7) providing greater decision making authority and flexibility to schools and teachers in exchange for greater responsibility for student performance; (8) providing children an enriched and accelerated educational program, (9) promoting school wide reform and scientifically based instructional strategies and challenging academic content; (10) significantly elevating the quality of instruction by providing staff in participating schools with substantial opportunities for professional development; (11) coordinating services under all parts of this title with each other, with other educational services, and, to the extent feasible, with other agencies (12) affording parents substantial and meaningful opportunities to participate in the education of their children.

4. Qualification for Title One • The state allocates Title I funding to each School District. • The School District must fill out an application to receive these funds and include in that application data from PEIMS. • Hooks ISD uses PEIMS (data on enrollment) information to calculate how many students in our district receive free/reduced lunch. • If 40% or more of students enrolled on each campus receive free/reduced lunches then the district qualifies for Title 1funds for all campuses. • All of Hooks ISD campuses have 40% or more students receiving free/reduced lunches so our Title 1 funds are used district wide to raise student success on all campuses.

5. Parents are Key to Student Achievement!

6. RELATIONSHIPS ABC’s of Parent Involvement A ttitude Check your attitude

7. ABC’s of Parent Involvement B ELIEVE ABC’s of Parent Involvement • Believe in high expectations for the students • Believe in high expectations for the parents • Believe in high expectations for yourself

8. ABC’s of Parent Involvement C ommunicate • Communicate to Coordinate • Communicate to Collaborate • Communicate to Cooperate

9. Parent Involvement • P lanning for Positive Parent Involvement at all levels • A ssess Needs (Needs Assessment) • R etain Parent information • E ducation Partners (STAAR, AYP, Etc.) • N etworking • T eam Effort‐Together Everyone Achieves More

10. Parent Involvement Being Pro-Active • Hooks Website • Parent-Teacher Conferences • VSI – Grades and Attendance • Title One Meeting/Committee • Meet the Teacher Night

11. Survey Title I Parent Survey 2011 - 2012 Please circle your response to each of the following items. 1. Do you have a clear understanding of how a district would qualify for Title I assistance? 1 2 3 4 not much some mostly very much 2. Do you have a clear understanding of the purpose and goals of the Title I program? 1 2 3 4 not much some mostly very much 3. Do you have a clear understanding of the instruction and activities your child may have access to? 1 2 3 4 not much some mostly very much 4. Has your child’s progress in the classroom or tutorials been clearly communicated to you? 1 2 3 4 not much some mostly very much

12. Cont’d 5. Have you been given opportunities to discuss your child’s progress with their teachers? 1 2 3 4 not much some mostly very much 6. Has your child shown an increased interest in reading? 1 2 3 4 not much some mostly very much 7. Did you attend Title I Parent Meeting? No Yes 8. Would you be willing to serve on the Title I Advisory Committee? No Yes If so, please write your name and contact information. ­ Name Phone number E-mail My suggestions for improving the Title I program: Comments or suggestions for the Title I teachers:

13. Contact Information Shiva McCraw Hooks ISD Director of C&I/Special Programs 100 East 5th Street    Hooks, Tx 75561  Phone: 903-547-6077  Fax: 903-547-2943