Last modified: March 3, 2025
Parent & Family Engagement Policy 2024 2025
Provost Elementary
2024-2025 Parent & Family Engagement Policy
All schools receiving Title I funds are required under section 1116 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to develop a written Parent and Family Engagement Policy. This policy, developed jointly with parents, describes how the school will carry out meaningful parent and family engagement.
General
Parents and family members are involved in the development of the school parent and family engagement policy. At Provost Elementary, we involve our stakeholders by holding monthly/quarterly meetings with the Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
Policy Involvement
Annual Meeting
An annual meeting is held each year in the fall. At this meeting, information is shared with stakeholders that consists of an explanation of Title I, how funds are allocated, student performance in literacy and math, intervention and enrichment opportunities for students, and ways that stakeholders communicate with the school. You may find our annual meeting information here:
Flexible Meetings
We offer flexible meeting times for parents and families to participate in decisions regarding their children. We offer before and after school hours for parents to meet with teachers and/or administration. We hold Student Education Plan (SEP) conferences from early afternoon to later in the evening in order to accommodate parents’ schedules; this allows parents to give feedback, ask questions, and get support.
Timely notification about family-student activities may include:
- School website
- Parent-connect link
- Personal phone calls
- Emails
- Paper flyers
- Online scheduler (SEP conferences)
- Social media
Involve Parents
Throughout the year parents are involved in many ways including the creation of this document and planning of family-student engagement activities through SEP conferences, ongoing surveys and meetings with PTA, school-collected data from various family-student activities, and an annual district survey for parents and students.
Shared Responsibility – High Student Academic Achievement
The Provost School Parent Family Compact outlines shared responsibilities for high student academic achievement and is developed jointly with parents, teachers, administrators, and students. Please see our school’s compact here:
Building Capacity for Involvement
To improve academic achievement and to ensure effective involvement of parents and the community to support a partnership with the school, Provost Elementary will:
- Share with stakeholders, at least three times a year, Utah Core Standards, state and local assessment information, and ways parents can monitor their student’s academic success. This information is provided through standards reports at SEP conferences or by other means a minimum of four times a year.
- Provide materials and/or training for parents to work with their children to improve their children’s achievement in literacy or through using technology. This includes family-student nights which provide parents with tools to support their children with grade-level curriculum.
- Provide professional development (PD) for administrators, teachers, and instructional support personnel (with assistance from parents) on the value of parents as equal partners and building ties between parents and the school. This occurs in collaboration with the PTA and as an ongoing agenda item in PD throughout the school year.
- Coordinate parent involvement programs and activities with other Federal, State, and local programs that encourage and support parents in fully participating in the education of their children. This is achieved through regular meetings between parent and teacher liaisons, the Title I Coordinator, and other school staff.
Accessibility
To the extent practicable, Provost Elementary will ensure that information for parents and family members (including those with limited English proficiency, disabilities, and migratory families) is provided in a language they can understand. This includes standards reports and essential school information.
This document was developed jointly by a team of parents, teachers, and administrators on various dates between Spring 2024 and Fall 2024.
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