Title I, Part A
Title I, Part A is a federally-funded program designed to provide supplemental educational services for children who are most at risk of failing to meet the state's student academic achievement standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics. The program focuses on promoting reform in high-poverty schools and ensuring student access to scientifically-based instructional strategies and challenging academic content. Title I, Part A distributes funds to schools based on the number of low-income families rather than achievement.
Students in kindergarten through 5th-grade at both Parkside Elementary School and Tenino Elementary School benefit from the supplemental education services (SES) provided by Title I funds in Tenino School District. These opportunities allow schools to provide needed interventions to ensure students meet academic standards. Program support is given in a variety of ways such as kindergarten readiness, differentiated instruction, small group interventions, and tutoring.
Assessments are used to qualify students for Title I are Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) and I-Ready, in addition to teacher and parent/guardian input.
Parent & Family Engagement
Parents can influence the success of their child more than any teacher or federal program. Parents of students that are Title I qualified enter into a school-parent compact. This compact includes the school, parent and student role in regards to student success, communication about student progress and how families and schools can develop a partnership to assist in student growth.
Research tells us that students with engaged parents and families, are more likely to:
Learn to read faster (Exhibit faster rates of literacy acquisition.)
Have higher grades and test scores.
Are promoted and take more challenging classes.
Adapt better to school and have better attendance.
Have better social skills and behavior.
Graduate
For more information on family engagement please contact your child's elementary school administrator.
Tenino School District Title I Compact
Please read and sign with your child, click the Title for downloadable PDF. If you have any questions, please contact your schools Title I teacher or the district office at 360.264.3400.
School Responsibilities:
Tenino School District and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) agree that this compact outlines how the parents, school staff and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards. This compact is in effect during the 2017-2018 school year.
The School will:
1. Provide differentiated, high quality, curriculum and instruction, based on assessment results, that is taught in a supportive and effective learning environment which enables the participating children to meet the state’s student academic achievement standards.
2. Hold parent-teacher conferences each fall during which the compact will be discussed as it relates to your child’s achievement.
3. Provide parents with report cards two times a year to share each student’s progress. 4. Provide parents opportunities to communicate with staff through conferences two times a year, email, phone calls, and other meetings as needed.
5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and to observe classroom activities by setting up volunteer schedules with parents who have been approved to volunteer.
Parent Responsibilities:
We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:
1. Helping my child be at school on time.
2. Making sure my child’s homework is complete.
3. Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’s education.
4. Promoting positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
5. Staying informed about my child’s education and communicating with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or district and responding as appropriate.
6. Serving, to the extent possible, on policy advisory committees.
Student Responsibilities:
We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the state’s high standards by:
1. Completing my homework every day and asking for help when I need to.
2. Reading at least 20 minutes every day outside of school time.
3. Giving my parents or guardians all notices and information about school.
Copies of the building Parent Engagement Policy is available on the Tenino School District website. If you wish to file a complaint about any Federal Title program, please download and fill out the form on the OSPI website, or pick the form up at the Tenino School District office.
Parent Signature and Date
Student signature and Date
Teacher signature and Date