NOTE: In support of strengthening student academic achievement, each school that receives Title I, Part A funds must develop jointly with, agree on with, and distribute to, parents of participating children a written parental involvement policy that contains information required by section 1118 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (parental involvement policy). Schools, in consultation with parents, may use the sample template below as a framework for the information to be included in their parental involvement policy. Schools are not required to follow this sample template or framework. If they establish the school’s expectations for parental involvement and include all of the components listed under “Description of How a School Will Implement Required School Parental Involvement Policy Components” they will have incorporated the information that section 1118 requires be in the school parental involvement policy. Schools, in consultation with parents, are encouraged to include other relevant and agreed upon activities and actions that

PART I. GENERAL EXPECTATIONS
Austin Montessori agrees to implement the following statutory requirements:
• Consistent with section 1118, the school will work to ensure that the required school level parental involvement policies meet the requirements of section 1118 of the ESEA, and each include, as a component, a school-parent compact consistent with section
1118(d) of the ESEA. (See Enclosure)
• Schools will notify parents of the policy in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand. The policy will be made available to the local community and updated periodically to meet the changing needs of parents and the school.
• In carrying out the Title I, Part A, parental involvement requirements, to the extent practicable, the school will provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children, including providing information and school reports required under section 1111 of the
ESEA in an understandable and uniform format and including alternative formats upon request and, to the extent practicable, in language parents understand.
• If the school-wide program plan for Title I, Part A, developed under section 1114(b) of the ESEA, is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children, the school will submit any parent comments with the plan when the school submits the plan to the local educational agency (school district).
• The school will involve the parents of children served in Title I, Part A schools in decisions about how the 1 percent of Title I, Part A funds reserved for parental involvement is spent, and will ensure that not less than 95 percent of the 1 percent reserved goes directly to the schools.
• The school will build its own and the parent’s capacity for strong parental involvement, in order to ensure effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership among the school, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement.
• The school will provide other reasonable support for parental involvement activities under section 1118 of the ESEA as the parents may request.
• The school will be governed by the following statutory definition of parental involvement, and will carry out programs, activities, and procedures in accordance with this definition:
Parental involvement means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities, including ensuring—
(A) that parents play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning;
(B) that parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school; (C) that parents are full partners in their child’s education and are included, as appropriate, in decision-making and on advisory committees to assist in the education of their child;
(D) the carrying out of other activities, such as those described in section 1118 of the
ESEA.

PART II. DESCRIPTION OF HOW SCHOOLS WILL IMPLEMENT REQUIRED
SCHOOL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT POLICY COMPONENT
PART III. DISCRETIONARY SCHOOL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT POLICY
COMPONENTS
Austin Montessori will involve parents in the joint development of the Title I Plan and the process of school review and improvement.

An adequate number of parents will work collaboratively with the campus committee in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in the planning, review, and improvement of the Title 1 program. (Examples: Parent Advisory, Title Advisory)

Annually, the school will convene a meeting to which all parents of participating students are invited to inform the parents of the school’s participation in the Title I program and of the parents’ right to be involved. (Parent Goal Night, Parent Teacher Conferences, Assessment Overview/Explanation Night)

Parents will be provided timely information and available programs. (Newsletters, Flyers, television)

Parents will be provided with the school performance profiles and assistance with interpreting their child’s individual assessment results.

Parents will be provided a description and explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, the forms of assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficient levels students are expected to meet.

Parents will be provided with opportunities for regular meetings to formulate suggestions, share experiences with other parents, and to participate in decisions relating to the education of their children.

Parents will receive a timely response to their suggestions.

The school will coordinate, provide technical assistance, and other support necessary to assist parents in actively participating in the planning and implementing of a parent involvement program.

Parent involvement will be coordinated and integrated with the parent involvement strategies of other programs such as Head Start Program, Reading First Program, Parents as Teachers Program and State Preschool programs.

Parents will jointly conduct an evaluation of the content and effectiveness of the parental involvement policy and revise as necessary. (Fall & Spring Advisory Meetings)

PART III. DISCRETIONARY SCHOOL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT POLICY COMPONENTS
NOTE: The School Parental Involvement Policy may include additional paragraphs listing and describing other discretionary activities that the school district, in consultation with its parents, chooses to undertake to build parents’ capacity for involvement in the school and school system to support their children’s academic achievement, such as the following discretionary activities listed under section 1118(e) of the ESEA:
*Character Development
* providing necessary literacy training for parents from Title I, Part A funds, if the school district has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for that training;

PART IV. ADOPTION
This School Parental Involvement Policy has been developed jointly with, and agreed on with, parents of children participating in Title I, Part A programs, as evidenced by
_see documentation attached_.
This policy was adopted by Austin Montessori on February 10, 2014 and will be in effect for the period of 2013-2014 school year. The school will distribute this policy to all parents of participating Title I, Part A children on or before February 20, 2014.

Crystal Castillo
Principal