1. Recruit parents to serve on district ACSIP committee to develop the Title I Application. (Carla Wardlaw, 870-226-8500)
2. Recruit parents for a district Parent Advisory Committee.
3. Encourage the formation of partnerships between the district and local businesses that includes roles for parents.
4. Involve parents through an annual survey to improve district effectiveness.
5. Use the school App, radio, online newspaper, newspaper, flyers, folders, and etc. to communicate with all parties.
6. Each campus will schedule Parent and Family Engagement activities at that campus.
Teachers and volunteers will help to organize each activity. Monthly activities such as:
o Accelerated Reader
o Awards Assemblies
o Band Concerts
o Book Fairs
o Booster Clubs
o Career Coach
o Career Speakers
o Choir Concerts
o East
o ESL Night
o Family Night
o High School Partners
o HIPPY Night
o Holiday Activities
o Homecoming
o Literacy, Math and Science Nights
o Movie Nights
o Open House
The school will encourage and solicit CBOs and businesses to take appropriate roles in
parent/caregiver involvement activities, including:
• Donating food, services, and money for events and meetings
• Donating gift cards
• Allowing flyers about school activities in community institutions, stores, and circulars
• Providing information, well in advance, about summer camps and programs that reinforce
classroom learning
• Providing CBOs' expertise on education and family engagement, through participation in
presentations and workshops, consultation, and other activities, where educationally appropriate
and consistent with the school's mission and priorities
Establish guidelines for appropriate CBO and business involvement with Dardanelle
Intermediate, including:
• Not creating a quid pro quo relationship (such as attaching a condition to a donation that gives
a business control or influence over other school decisions)
• Adopting best practices for avoiding or minimizing commercialization within the school.
• Following security procedures and protection of student and family privacy.
• Requiring that the principal must approve involvement.
• Oversight and review of CBO and business roles.