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School Parent and Family Engagement Plan

School Parent and Family Engagement Plan
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School Name: Nemo Vista Middle School
Facilitator Name: Kyle Payne
Plan Review/Revision Date: 7/30/2021
District Level Reviewer, Title: Lindsey Ketchum
District Level Approval Date:
Committee Members, Role:
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First Name Last Name Position
Kyle Payne Chair
Regina Riedmueller Counselor
Mark Andrews Dean of Students
Johnna Setzer Principal
Dawn Williams Parent
Debra Dubois Parent

​Required Components Checklist:

1: Jointly Developed

  • 1.1: Involve parents in the development of the school parent and family engagement plan
  • 1.2: Involve parents in the review, update, and improvement, at least annually, of the school parent and family engagement plan to meet the changing needs of parents and the school
  • 1.3: Ensure adequate representation of parents of participating children in the process in a variety of roles
  • 1.4: Submit any parent comments to the district if the Title I Schoolwide Plan is not satisfactory to parents
  • 1.5: Address opportunities for regular meetings if requested by parents
  • (May accomplish collaboration through the coalition of parents and community representatives)
​​1: Jointly Developed​
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(Describe/List how parents will be involved in the development of the school parent and family engagement plan and how parents will be involved in the planning, review, and improvement of parent and family engagement programs.)​

Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?

Nemo Vista Middle School will engage parents in the annual review of the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan.  During this meeting, we discuss and evaluate the following categories: (1) growth in number of parents participating in workshops and meetings; (2) specific needs of parents; (3) effectiveness of specific strategies; and (4) engagement of parents in activities to support students academically. 

Required Components Checklist:

​​2: Annual Title I Meeting

  • 2.1: Conduct an annual Title I meeting
    • to inform parents of the requirements of Title I and the school’s participation
    • to inform parents of their rights under Title I
    • (Recommendation: Include the month/year or month/day/year when the Annual Title I meeting will be held)

(Note: The purpose of the annual Title I meeting is to disseminate information only and cannot be used as an opportunity for gathering input into the Parent and Family Engagement Plan and School-Parent Compacts.)

​2: Annual Title I Meeting

​(Describe/List when (provide the month/year or month/day/year) the school will hold the Annual Title I meeting to inform parents of the requirements of Title I and the school’s participation as well as the parents’ rights to be involved. The Annual Title I meeting should not be used to ask for parent input, but provided as an opportunity to disseminate information and distribute copies of the revised parent and family engagement policy.)

​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?

NA

Required Components Checklist:

3: Communications

  • 3.1: ***Make the school parent and family engagement plan available to families and the local community
    • Include contact information for the parent facilitator
  • 3.2: Ensure that the plan is written in an understandable and uniform format, to the extent practicable, provided in a language the parents can understand, and that the informational packet is appropriate for the age and grade of each child
  • 3.3: ***Distribute an informational packet annually to include
    • Description of engagement program
    • Recommended roles
    • Ways for a family to get involved in a variety of roles
    • Survey regarding volunteer interests
    • Schedule of activities planned throughout the school year
    • Regular, two-way, and meaningful system for parents/teachers to communicate
  • 3.4: ***Place a parent-friendly summary/explanation of the parent and family engagement plan online and as a supplement to the student handbook
    • Obtain signatures from each parent acknowledging receipt of the [district’s] parent and family engagement plan summary
  • 3.5: Offer meetings at various times (such as in the morning and evening)
  • 3.6: Offer meetings in different formats (such as offered online and in-person group meetings as well as home visits or other types of individual meetings)
  • (May offer transportation as such services relate to preventing barriers to parent and family engagement) (May offer child care as such services relate to preventing barriers to parent and family engagement) (May offer home visits as such services relate to preventing barriers to parent and family engagement) (***Must post these items to website by August 1)
3: Communications

​(Describe/List how the parent and family engagement policy will be distributed to parents and how the school is going to communicate with parents including information about how the school will provide information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities to parents in a format, to the extent practicable, and in a language that parents can understand.)

​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?​

The Nemo Vista Middle School Parent and Family Engagement Plan will be made available to families and the local community through the parent facilitator, Kyle Payne, 501-893-6494. NVMS will also include valuable information in the beginning of the school year packet including the Parent and Family Engagement plan and ways for families to get involved and what roles they can play. 

The school will distribute a weekly newsletter to parents that is developed to include school news, a calendar of school activities, and additional information for parents. Each teacher will have his or her own web page on the school website in which parents can see what the lesson objectives and goals are each week. The school will have regularly scheduled progress reports and parent teacher conferences in which parents will be updated on their child's performance. We have purchased the eSchool program to aid teachers and parents with open communication about students' academic progress. Nemo Vista Middle School also utilizes a parent notification system, Remind 101, that keeps parents informed of school closings, parent teacher conferences, open house, public meetings, and other important events. Information is also placed on the school marque sign along Highway 9 in front of the school. The local newspaper, the "Petit Jean County Headlight", and KVOM radio station are used to promote and announce events and activities at Nemo Vista Middle School. Events, activities, change of plans, and anything above is also posted on the school Facebook page as well. 

​Required Components Checklist:

4: School-Parent Compact

  • 4.1: Jointly develop a School-Parent Compact
    • Outline how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement
    • Address the importance of regular two-way, meaningful communication through:
      • conferences (no fewer than 2 each year)
      • frequent reports on progress
      • reasonable access to staff
      • opportunities to volunteer
      • observation of classroom activities
  • 4.2: Build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the challenging State academic standards
  • 4.3: Encourage school staff to use volunteer surveys to compile a volunteer resource book listing interests and availability of volunteers
  • 4.4: Involve parents in a variety of roles
4: School-Parent Compact

​(Describe/List the process the schools will follow to jointly develop with parents a school-parent compact.)

​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?​

A school compact committee was created during the 2017-2018 school year. Over the course of several meetings, the committee came up with the school compact to be approved and signed by all students at open house for the upcoming school years.  The compact has been reviewed and approved for the 2021-2022 school year.

This compact outlines how parents, school staff, and students share responsibility for improving student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the state's high academic standards. 

The school provides regular two-way communication  through parent teacher conferences (no less than 2 per year), and progress reports every 4.5 weeks. The first parent teacher conference this year will be held on September 16, 2021. The next scheduled conference date will be February 3, 2022.

Teachers have access to a volunteer book that parents sign up for at the beginning of the school year for a variety of roles.

Required Components Checklist:

5: Reservation of Funds

5.1: Involve parents and family members of children receiving services under Title I in the decisions regarding how reserved funds are allotted for parent and family engagement activities (only required if the school system receives more than $500,000 Title I, Part A allocation, and a percentage of the 1 percent reservation of funds is allocated to the school)

5: Reservation of Funds

​(If the district receives more than $500,000 in Title I allocation, then it must reserve 1 percent for parent and family engagement activities. A minimum of 90% of that 1% must go to the schools, with priority given to high-need schools. If the school is allocated a percentage of the 1 percent, describe/list how the school will share with parents the budget for parent and family engagement activities and programs and how parents will be involved in providing input into how the funds are used.)

​​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?

NA

Required Components Checklist:

6: Coordination of Services

  • 6.1: Investigate and, where feasible, utilize community resources in the instructional program
  • 6.2: Coordinate and integrate parent and family engagement programs, activities, and strategies with early childhood programs (applicable to elementary schools), college and career ready resources or organizations (applicable to middle and high schools), parent resource centers, or other programs that encourage and support parents in fully participating
  • 6.3: Promote and support responsible parenting
  • 6.4: Consider recruiting alumni to create an alumni advisory commission
  • 6.5: Enable the formation of a Parent Teacher Association or organization
  • Leaders of said organization will be utilized in appropriate decisions
  • 6.6: Engage in other activities that will use community resources strengthen school programs, practices, and learning
  • 6.7: Ensure the plan is comprehensive and coordinated in nature
  • 6.8: Incorporate this plan into the school’s improvement plan
6: Coordination of Services

​(Describe/List how the district and/or school will coordinate with other organizations, businesses, and community partners to provide additional supports and resources to families.)

​​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?

The school utilizes community resources in the instructional process.

The school will involve parents on school improvement planning committees. To support this process, the school will offer both school staff and parent training on how to contribute to this process in a meaningful way.

To utilize community resources, the school shall consider recruiting alumni to create an alumni advisory commission to provide advice and guidance for school improvement.

The school has enabled the formation of a Parent Teacher Association that fosters parental and community involvement within the school.

The school partners with local agencies during Health Week.

Required Components Checklist:

7: Building Capacity of Parents

  • 7.1: Schedule regular parent involvement meetings
  • 7.2: Provide parents with a description and explanation of the curriculum in use
  • 7.3: Provide parents with individual student academic assessment results and interpretation of those results
  • 7.4: Provide parents with a description and explanation of the assessments used to measure student progress and achievement levels of the challenging State academic standards
  • 7.5: Provide assistance and instruction to parents of children served by the school in understanding these topics:
    • Arkansas Academic Standards
    • State and local academic assessments including alternate assessments
    • Title I, Part A requirements
    • Strategies parents can use to support their child’s academic progress
    • Partnering with teachers to support their child’s academic achievements
    • Incorporating developmentally appropriate learning activities
    • Use of ADE website and tools for parents [http://dese.ade.arkansas.gov]
    • Assistance with nutritional meal planning and preparation
    • How parents of high school students can be involved in the decisions affecting course selection, career planning, and preparation for postsecondary opportunities
    • Including role play and demonstration by trained volunteers
  • 7.6: Provide materials and training to help parents to work with their children to improve their children’s achievement, such as literacy training and using technology (including education about the harms of copyright piracy), as appropriate, to foster parent and family engagement
  • 7.7: Promote and support responsible parenting
7: Building Capacity of Parents

​(Describe/List activities, such as workshops, conferences, classes, online resources, Academic Parent-Teacher Team meetings, and any equipment or other materials that may be necessary to support parents in helping their student’s academic success.)

​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?​

Meetings will include parent training sessions to help parents understand how to enhance their child's education.

Teachers will hold conferences individually with parents of children in their classrooms. Parents will be given summary of the student's standardized test scores as well as any interventions that may take place. Parents will be asked to engage in discussion of how they can support these efforts. Parents will also be given suggestions for coordinating school-parent efforts and explanations of homework and grading procedures. 

Parents have access to teacher lesson plans online as well as students current grades via eSchool.

The school will encourage parents in the following types of roles and activities to increase their involvement and support student learning:

Open House

Awards Day

Parent-Teacher Organization and their numerous events/activities

Family wellness connections

Various committees

Required Components Checklist:

8: Building Capacity of School Staff

  • 8.1: Ensure professional development requirements are met for teachers and administrators
  • 8.2: Train teachers, specialized instructional support personnel, principals, and other school leaders, and other staff, with the assistance of parents:
    • That parents play an integral role in assisting student learning
    • In the value and utility of contributions of parents
    • In how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners
    • To implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between home and school
    • To welcome parents into the school and seek parental support and assistance
    • To provide information in a format, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand
    • To respond to parent requests for parent and family engagement activities
    • To recognize that a parent is a full partner by including in the school handbook the school’s process for resolving parent concerns
8: Building Capacity of School Staff

​(Describe/List activities such as workshops, conferences, trainings, webinars, online resources, and Academic Parent-Teacher Team meetings that will be used with school staff to build their capacity to work with parents as equal partners. Describe/List methods of parents’ assistance for building staff capacity. Describe/List actions the school will take to provide other reasonable support for parent and family engagement activities.)

​​Does the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan describe how the school will accomplish each of the required components?

The professional development requirements are met for teachers and administrators through the required professional development as required by the Department of Education.

A parent center is available to provide parents with materials and information packets to utilize in assisting their children with academic improvement and emotional and social needs. There are also parent resources on the school website that parents have access to anytime.

Nemo Vista Middle School will distribute informational packets each year that includes a copy of the school's parent and family engagement plan, survey for volunteer interests, recommended roles for parents/ teachers/students and school, suggestions of ways parents can become involved in their child's education, parent and family engagement activities planned for the current school year and information about the system that will be used to allow parents and teachers to communicate.

To promote and support responsible parenting, the school shall, as funds are available: purchase parenting books, magazines, and other informative materials regarding responsible parenting through the school library, advertise the current selection, and give parents the opportunity to borrow the materials for review.

Nemo Vista has included in the school's policy handbook the school's process for resolving parental concerns, including how to define a problem, whom to approach first, and how to develop solutions.


Required Components Checklist:

9: Building Capacity - Discretionary

  • D.1: Provide necessary literacy training from funds received under this part if the local educational agency has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for such training.
  • D.2: Pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with local parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions.
  • D.3: Train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents.
  • D.4: Adopt and implement model approaches to improving parent and family engagement.
  • D.5: Establish a districtwide parent advisory council to provide advice on all matters related to parental involvement in Title I, Part A programs.
  • D.6: Develop appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses in parent and family engagement activities.
  • D.7: Arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conduct in-home conferences between teachers or other educators who work directly with participating children, with parents unable to attend conferences at school to maximize parental involvement and participation in their children’s education.
9: Building Capacity - Discretionary

​​(The school parent and family engagement policy/plan may include additional sections describing other discretionary activities that the school, in meaningful consultation with its parents, chooses to undertake to build capacity.)

​Did the School and Parents choose to include any Discretionary (Optional) Components in the School Parent and Family Engagement Plan?

Everything related to parental involvement has been addressed in other responses.

(Find complete guidance on the DESE Parent and Family Engagement Requirements webpage.)

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