Tellico Plains High School has jointly developed with parents a Family Involvement Policy to establish

the expectations for parental engagement.  The Family Involvement Policy and other correspondences

will be written so that all stakeholders will be able to understand its meaning, including those

with disabilities or limited English proficiency.

 

FAMILY INVOLVEMENT POLICY

 

Our school encourages parental engagement in the educational process. 

The school and home share the same goal of promoting success in our children. 

Our parents will act as advisors, resource persons, and coordinators in the following ways:

  

--Attend school events and serve as advisors

 

--Serve on the Stakeholders Council, the Parent Advisory Committee, Booster Clubs, etc.

 

--Use their talents and resources to help enhance instructional programs

 

--Support and advocate the school

 

--Respond in a timely manner to memos, surveys, and questionnaires expressing ideas and concerns

 

 

NCLB (No Child Left Behind) INVOLVEMENT

 

The administrators, faculty, and staff will provide a strategic plan and implement

Title I requirements according to the guidelines set forth in the law which include the following:

 

--Make parents aware of Title I NCLB requirements and Tellico Plains High School’s participation

 

--Allow parents to observe the school’s program(s) and visit classrooms

 

--Provide parents with student information, timely progress reports, and timely information about Family Involvement programs

 

--Solicit feedback from parents at regular parent meetings on decisions relating to the education of their children

 

--Provide parents with a description and explanation of the curriculum in use at school, forms of academic assessment used to measure

    student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet

 

--Provide parents with a copy of the Family Involvement Policy

 

 

To ensure that our parents participate in the development and implementation of the

school’s program, Tellico Plains High School will do the following:

 

--Convene an annual meeting to explain the Title I NCLB requirements, Tellico Plains High School’s participation as a Title I school,

    and the right of parents to be involved in the school

 

--Conduct regular parent meetings, at various times during the day and throughout the school year, for parent/teacher conferences to

    discuss student progress and to help keep parents informed of current events and issues

 

--Offer parents tips to assist them in helping their children improve achievement

 

--Develop, jointly with parents, a School-Parent Compact telling how parents, the school, and students share responsibilities. Disseminate the

    Compact to all students/parents and acquire appropriate signatures

 

--Encourage parents to regularly visit and take an active role in school planning

 

--Provide a parent and student handbook covering school rules, policies, and procedures

 

--Accommodations will be made for any and all parents and/or students with special needs

 

--Provide regular progress reports and report cards – Report cards are sent home every six weeks and progress reports are sent home at the

    midpoint of each grading period

 

--Materials and training are available to help parents work with their children to improve their achievement, such as literacy training and

    using technology to foster parental involvement. Provide any other reasonable support for parent involvement activities per parent request

 

--Educate faculty and staff through regular and periodic professional development with the assistance of parents in the value and contributions

    of parents, and in working with parents-how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with as equal partners, implement and coordinate

    parent programs, and build ties between parents and the school

 

--Coordinate and integrate Title I-A parental involvement strategies with strategies under other federal, state, and local programs.