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Brown Intermediate School
Parent Involvement Plan
2007-2008
The faculty and staff at Brown Intermediate (BIS) are determined to
communicate and involve parents and all stakeholders to better serve our
students. Education should be the shared responsibility of students, teachers,
parents, and the community. Together we can make a difference. BIS will attempt
to increase family and community involvement by taking the steps listed below.
1. BIS Parent Involvement Plan will establish the expectations for
parent involvement.
A. An explanation of Title I will be given annually at Open House.
B. Meetings are scheduled at various times:
-Open House
-Parent/Teacher
Conference
-IEP Meetings
C. Principal has sent home letters requesting that parents join a school
improvement committee for SACS.
D. Timely information to parents will be sent in a variety of ways to
include:
-Information about parent involvement programs will be included in newsletters.
-TCAP and Writing Assessment brochures are sent home prior to testing.
-Grade cards are sent each six weeks. Parents may log onto
mygradebook.com or teacherease.com and receive weekly homework folders to be aware of student
progress.
-Parents are invited to an Awards Assembly at the end of each six weeks.
-STAR = the results of this computer Reading and Math assessment are made
available 2-3 times each year.
-Parents may respond to the above through notes, phone calls, e-mail, or
request a conference.
-School wide parent/teacher conferences are scheduled twice yearly.
E. A school parent compact was written and sent home with each
student. Parents may contact the principal or a member of the committee for
questions and/or concerns.
2. The Compact
A. The following will help achieve the state’s high standards:
-100% Highly Qualified Educators, 100% current textbook adoption,
teachers attend 30 hours required in-service and volunteer for additional
conferences, Blueprint for Learning in every classroom, protected
instructional time
-The school compact suggests ways to assist children in their education.
-School encourages continual open communication through a variety of ways
not limited to parent/teacher conference, progress reports, volunteering and
observing in the classroom.
B. The BIS school level parent involvement plan will be made
available by hard copy or school web-site to parent, community, and
stakeholders.
C. The plan will be on agenda for discussion, updated, and reviewed
each year.
D. To address student achievement in literacy and technology, the
following programs are/have been offered:
-Academic Night is an evening in which parents and students attend school
together rotating to three different academic sessions.
-PTO meetings offer a variety of training’s.
-The Laughing Parent --- parent luncheon informing parents of fun and
simple ways to discipline children.
-www.teacherease.com
is an internet web-site parents can access their child’s grades.
E. BIS communicates with parents through the school handbook,
newsletters, student planners, weekly folders, behavior charts, e-mail, notes
home, and phone calls.
F. ELL certified teacher provides the following to assist and
encourage parents of Hispanic students:
-ELL Registration
-ELL Graduation
-Written and phone communication
BIS has a vision that each student will leave with a continuing desire to
learn and the ability to become a responsible and productive citizen. By keeping
informed of the best teaching strategies such as single-gender classrooms,
incorporating technology, and ability grouping we can most effectively instruct
students. With the support of parents, community, and stakeholders we can come
together and produce top notch citizens.
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