Parent Involvement
High School Parents:Under Federal Government guidelines, educators and parents need to agree to work together to help all of our students meet with academic success. Listed below are strategies that the school, parents and students need to agree on so that every effort is made to ensure student academic success.
The school agrees:
To 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.
Hold parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates individual child’s achievement.
Parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class and to observe classroom activities.
The parent agrees:
To support our children’s learning in the following ways:
Monitoring attendance
Ensuring that homework is completed
Monitoring amount of television children watch
Volunteering in child’s classroom
Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’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 and advisory groups, such as being a Title, I, Part A parent representative on the district’s Title I Collaborative Team, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Improvement Team or other school advisory or policy groups.
The student agrees:
To share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the state’s high standards in the following ways:
Do my homework every day and ask for help when I need it.
Read at least 15 minutes every day outside of school time.
Give my parents or the adult who is responsible for my welfare all notices and information received by me from my school every day.
