School Year: 2024-2025

School: Mt. Pleasant Elementary School

Date Submitted: August 15, 2024

Policy Involvement

Describe your plan to involve parents in the development of this policy and how you intend to document their participation and feedback.

Mt. Pleasant Elementary School welcomes parent involvement. We invite parents and have representation at our school leadership team meetings where we discuss ideas and Mrs. Byers discusses with PTO members at bimonthly officer meetings as well as quarterly Parent Advisory meetings. PTO also gives updates at PTO parent nights. Parents will be polled at our PTO advisory committee meetings to better the school. Parents will complete a survey this year about our events and school as a whole as they did last January. We allow parent volunteers to help in the school.

• Student handbook and open house night on Thursday, August 22nd from 5-7 pm includes Title 1 documentation as well as school/classroom expectations including parent/student compacts.
• 3rd grade hosts an RTA parent night in September.
• PTO meetings and family engagement nights discuss Title I School Status.
• Teachers will conference with families after 1st quarter and during 3rd quarter about academic progress.
• Volunteer involvement during dances, Spring Fling, field day, and other events.

Discuss how:

• Parents have a calendar/student handbook that will be given out during open house meetings.
• Parents get Remind messages school-wide, classroom-wide, and individual messages.
• Parents receive a weekly school messenger call and SMORE that includes dates and important information.
• PTO advisory will be asked about how the school is doing and suggestions they have.
• Meetings are offered after school and during evening hours for families to meet.
• Each meeting is documented with an agenda, sign-in sheet, and notes

Shared Responsibility for High Student Academic Achievement

Describe your plan to develop your school compact and gain meaningful collaboration with families.

The School-Parent Compact is a communication tool to support achievement for parents, school staff, and students. The Compact is an agreement on how each person (and the student) will support each other in ensuring that the student is successful. This compact was revised this year to match the mission and vision of Mt. Pleasant Elementary School.

Discuss how:

• Revise the school-parent compact to reflect the vision of Mt. Pleasant Elementary and share at Open House night.
• School Compact is reviewed with parents and feedback is solicited for possible revision.
• Applicable information above regarding meetings as they related to the School Compact

Building Capacity for Involvement

Describe how your school will provide programs to assist parents in building capacity to be involved in their child's education.

During our PTO meetings this year they will be paired with parent nights on math, reading, and science along with a musical performance by each grade level. We will send out reminders and notifications of family nights, PTO meetings, and parent advisory meetings.

• During the 3rd grade Read to Achieve parent night, teachers will help parents understand the RTA law and good cause exemptions. This is the first year for end-of-grade testing for these students so we want them to be prepared.
• This year PTO has elected a volunteer coordinator to be the bridge between school and family. This person will contact parents about volunteering and being involved with the school.

How are these events communicated to parents?

Parents are notified by school messenger calls, the parent SMORE website, the school Facebook page, Instagram, and Remind. Some events are printed out and sent home with the students.

Accessibility

Describe how you plan to make all of these programs accessible to all of the parents at your school.

List ways these opportunities are provided to parents:

• Times are discussed with parents and parent advisory so parents can have an opportunity to come.
• Scheduling is flexible especially conference times, and teachers having a floating time for open house meetings.
• Communication about events is advertised in multiple ways and places.
• If Spanish copies are needed, we have a person at the central services that can help

Funding

Describe how your Title I Parent and Family Engagement funds will be used to support these efforts.

Title 1 parenting money is used for printing the student/parent handbooks that also have a calendar of dates such as holidays and staff workdays. Parents can write in any dates added throughout the year. This year parent engagement funds will be used for supplies needed for academic family nights. We will also host a STEAM and reading night for families. Staff members will help families with academic content and what they can do at home to help their child. During RTA 3rd grade students that participate will receive a book as well provided by Title 1 funding.

This document was jointly developed with our Parent Advisory Council. Every meeting with our parents is documented with an agenda, sign-in sheet, and minutes of the meeting. For a copy of any of the documentation mentioned in this plan, please contact Andrea Byers, Amy Craft (PTO president), Chip Walker (treasurer/former president), or Shannon Grieves (volunteer coordinator) at 336-651-7600.