1. FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
SECTION 1118
STRATEGIES / BEST PRACTICES
PARENTAL NOTIFICATION UNDER NCLB
FEDERAL MONITORING FINDINGS
Liz Roper, Project Director

2. SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT DISTRICT LEVEL POLICY
WRITTEN POLICY ON PARENT INVOLVEMENT, SCHOOL REVIEW AND IMPROVEMENT
DEVELOPED WITH PARENTS & DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS
PROVIDES SUPPORT/ T.A. TO SCHOOLS TO PLAN EFFECTIVE PARENT ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVMENT/ SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
BUILDS SCHOOLS’/PARENTS’ CAPACITY FOR STRONG INVOLVEMENT
INTEGRATES HEAD START, READING FIRST, EVEN START, PARENTS AS TEACHER,PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS
ANNUAL POLICY EVALUATION
LEAS ALLOCATED $500,000 +, PARENTS INVOLVED ABOUT HOW 1% USED IN PARENT INVOLVMENT ACTIVITIES, LITERACY, PARENTING SKILLS

3. SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL LEVEL POLICY
WRITTEN POLICY IN UNDERSTANDABLE FORMAT DEVELOPED WITH PARENTS AND DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS IN A LANGUAGE PARENTS CAN UNDERSTAND
ANNUAL MEETING AT CONVENIENT TIME PARENTS CAN ATTEND TO DISCUSS TITLE I, PARENT POLICY, AND RIGHT TO BE INVOLVED
OFFER FLEXIBLE NUMBER OF MEETINGS- AM and PM
INVOLVE PARENTS IN PLANNING/ REVIEW OF THIS POLICY
REGULAR MEETINGS IF REQUESTED BY PARENTS
SCHOOL COMPACT DESCRIBING HOW STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND STAFF WILL SHARE IMPROVED STUDENT ACHIEVMENT AND WAYS PARTNERSHIP IS BUILT BETWEEN PARENTS/SCHOOLS TO HELP CHILDREN ACHIEVE

4. SECTION 1118 TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SCHOOL LEVEL POLICY
DESCRIBE SCHOOL’S RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN SUPPORTIVE AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
ANNUAL PARENT- TEACHER CONFERENCES
ONGOING COMMUNICATION AND TIMELY INFORMATION:
AT LEAST ANNUAL PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FREQUENT PROGRESS REPORTS
REASONABLE ACCESS TO STAFF
OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER AND PARTICIPATE

5. SECTION 1118 TITLE I BUILDING CAPACITY FOR INVOLVEMENT
EXPLAIN TO PARENTS: CURRICULUM, ASSESSMENTS, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS, PROFICIENCY LEVELS STUDENTS EXPECTED TO MEET, HOW TO MONITOR A CHILD’S WORK, HOW TO WORK WITH EDUCATORS
PROVIDE MATERIALS AND TRAINING TO HELP PARENTS WORK WITH CHILDREN IN LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATE SCHOOL STAFF HOW TO COMMUNICATE AND WORK WITH PARENTS AS EQUAL PARTNERS
INTEGRATES HEAD START, READING FIRST, EVEN START, PARENTS AS TEACHER, PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS

6. SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES
1 PARENTING:
Assist families with parenting and child rearing skills, understanding child and adolescent development, and setting home conditions that support children as students at each age and grade level.  Assist schools in understanding families.
PRACTICES:
Parent education and training (GED, college credit, family literacy, computer workshops, child development, language classes, cultural diversity).
Family support programs to assist families with health, nutrition, and other services.
Home visits.

7. SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES
2 COMMUNICATING:
Communicate with families about school programs and student progress through effective school to home and home to school communications.
PRACTICES:
Ongoing communication resources - , website, telecommunications system, electronic language translation, student management software, brochures, mail outs
Information on learning standards, assessments, child progress reports, school performance, school programs, reading and math tips, homework tips

8. SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES
3 VOLUNTEERING:
Improve recruitment, training, and schedules to involve families as volunteers and audiences in other locations to support students and school programs.
PRACTICES:
Include parent and community volunteers in the classroom, as reading and math mentors, for cafeteria and bus duty, in sports events, as hall monitors, as language translators, and for fundraisers.
Enlist parents and community to mentor English Language Learners, special needs, new families.

9. SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES
4 LEARNING AT HOME:
 Involve families with their children in learning activities at home, including homework and other curriculum-related activities and decisions.
PRACTICES AT HOME:
Read to your child every day and your child takes turns reading to you. Ask your child questions about the story and characters, predict the outcome.
Play a rhyming game. Parent says a word like rat and child rhymes with bat, sat, hat,…
Homework hotline, place on homework sheet for parent comments

10. SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES
5 DECISION MAKING:
Include families as participants in school decisions, governance, and advocacy through PTA/PTO, school councils, committees, action teams, and other parent organizations.
PRACTICES:
Parents participating on the School Improvement Committee, Parent Advisory, and Leadership Team
Design school strategies with parents for academic, attendance, and behaviors.
Use surveys to identify needs.

11. SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICES
6 COLLABORATING WITH COMMUNITY:
Coordinate resources and services for students, families, and the school with businesses, agencies, and other groups, and provide services to the community.
PRACTICES:
Integrate academic and childcare resources such as: Head Start, Reading First, Family Literacy Programs
Provide information on community resources to help the child or family with health, housing, food, clothing, employment

12. CREATE PRACTICES TO ADDRESS
Fathers actively involved in their child’s education, especially in the middle and high school grades
Teachers guiding parents to monitor and discuss homework with their children
District leaders and principals organizing committees that focus on the six type of involvement and conducting evaluations on the activities, and providing workshops on creating partnerships,

13. SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES
Bledsoe County- Language translation
Cleveland City Schools- Key Communicators Network to respond to s
Crockett County- Hispanic interpreter
Metropolitan Nashville -Customer Service Center
Grundy County- Grandparent’s Day
Hawkins County- TCAP TIPOFF
Haywood County- AYP on billboards

14. SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES
Henderson County Schools and Lexington City Schools- annual “A Family Affair”
Jackson- Madison County- “Jackson Parent” and “Ms. Tennessee Parents and Families” magazine published monthly
Lebanon Special School District- ELL literacy program
Marion County- Compiles parent/community data
McMinn County- restaurant owners present food coupons
Clarksville-Montgomery County- The Learning Center

15. SOME TENNESSEE BEST PRACTICES
Putnam County- 1.5 family engagement coordinators
Rutherford County- system wide Parent Advisory Committee & School Messenger System
Sevier County- TransAct language translation technology for over 20 languages
Tullahoma City Schools- Sinkways Program” to student grades electronically
Warren County- Sales tax holiday collaboration
Wilson County- Parents as Teachers Birth to Kindergarten Program

16. TITLE I PARENTAL NOTIFICATION UNDER NCLB
State Report Card
Teacher Qualification
Child’s achievement on state assessment
Limited English proficiency programs
Schools identified for improvement, corrective action or restructuring
Supplemental educational services
Parental involvement policy
Safe and drug-free schools programs
National Assessment of Education Progress
Military recruiter access to student information
Homeless children
Student privacy
Waiver request
21st Century Community Learning Centers
Schoolwide programs

17. USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY
District and School- Level Parental Involvement Policies
 Policies were not current
Policies did not include required elements
Schools did not create and disseminate school-parent compacts
School- parent compacts did not include required elements
Parents not involved in annually reviewing parent involvement policies and school-parent compacts, and revising as needed

18. USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY
Parental Notifications and Parents Right to Know
Letters to parents did not include all required components
Insufficient time for parents to make decisions about public school choice or SES
 No letters sent to parents about public school choice and SES options

19. USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY
Information not provided to parents in other languages, as appropriate
Parents were not notified about the qualifications of paraprofessionals
Parents were not notified when their child had been assigned to or taught by a teacher who is not highly qualified for four
or more consecutive weeks

20. USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY
Parents not aware of district level and/or school level written parent involvement policies
Principals and/or staff not aware of requirement of written parent involvement policies
Charter schools not aware of all Title I requirements for parent policies and school - parent compacts
 SEAs had not reviewed LEA parent involvement policies and practices to determine if requirements have been met

21. USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY
Required annual meeting did not include information about the school’s Title I program, the nature of the Title I program (schoolwide or targeted assistance), and information about AYP, school choice, and supplemental education services
Schools depended on the annual meeting as the only source to share information with parents about the Title I program, even when small numbers of parents attend the meetings

22. USDOE TITLE I PARENTAL INVOLVMENT MONITORING SUMMARY
Parents not included in the development, review, and implementation of school improvement plans
Parents not involved in decisions on use of funds reserved for parent involvement activities
Lack of district focus on building capacity of parents

23. RESOURCES
Title I Parental Involvement Policy Section 1118 Regulations
Parental Involvement: Title, Part A Non-Regulatory Guidance
Tennessee Department of Education Family and Community Engagement

24. CONTACT INFORMATION
Liz Roper, Family and Community Engagement Project Director
Office of Federal Programs
Tennessee Department of Education