Staff-Parent-Student+Compact


 * W.H. Oliver Middle School staff, parents, and students will work as partners to foster a positive learning environment. This compact has been developed and describes school and family responsibilities, our signatures indicate agreement to fulfill this compact to the best of our abilities. **


 * AS OLIVER STAFF WE PLEDGE TO: 1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows: **
 * **// Teachers will utilize Tennessee State curriculum standards in designing all lessons. // **


 *  2. Hold parent-teacher conferences (at least annually in elementary schools) during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement. Specifically, those conferences will be held: **


 * **// School-wide conferences will be held during designated times pre-determined by the school district. // **
 * **// Additional conferences can/will be scheduled by the parents, teachers, and/or administration as needed. // **


 *  3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress. Specifically, the school will provide reports as follows: **
 * **// Report cards will be distributed at the end of each nine-week grading period. // **
 * **// Progress reports will be distributed at the middle of each grading period. // **
 * **// Gradespeed software will be utilized to provide parents and students with up-to-date student progress. // **


 *  4. Provide parents reasonable access to staff. Specifically, staff will be available for consultation with parents as follows: **
 * **// Staff will be available daily during planning periods, and before or after school as scheduled by the parent and teacher. // **
 * **// Additional consultation time will be directed by the district calendar and the school’s open house. // **


 *  5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and to observe classroom activities, as follows: **
 * **// Parents have an open invitation to attend their child’s class, and to observe classroom activities .// **

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">W.H. Oliver Middle School will: **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Involve parents in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s parental involvement policy, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Involve parents in the joint development of any schoolwide program plan, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in Title I, Part A programs, and to explain the Title I, Part A requirements, and the right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs. The school will convene the meeting at a convenient time to parents, and will offer a flexible number of additional parental involvement meetings, such as in the morning or evening, so that as many parents as possible are able to attend. The school will invite to this meeting all parents of children participating in Title I, Part A programs (participating students), and will encourage them to attend. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide information to parents of participating students in an understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon the request of parents with disabilities, and, to the extent practicable, in a language that parents can understand. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide to parents of participating children information in a timely manner about Title I, Part A programs that includes a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure children’s progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the request of parents, provide opportunities for regular meetings for parents to formulate suggestions, and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions about the education of their children. The school will respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide to each parent an individual student report about the performance of their child on the State assessment in at least math, language arts and reading. **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four (4) or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified within the meaning of the term in section 200.56 of the Title I Final Regulations (67 Fed. Reg. 71710, December 2, 2002). **