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Craigmont High School receives federal funding under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and operates a school-wide Title I program. Title I is the nation’s most extensive federal assistance program for schools. The goal of Title I is to help every child get a high-quality education. The program provides supplemental funds to school districts to assist schools with large concentrations of low-income students to help meet their educational goals. Under new federal measures for accountability, each school is responsible for a portion of the district’s AYP (Annual Yearly Progress) and AMO (Annual Measurable Objectives).
Craigmont High School is identified as a priority as required by ESSA and the U.S. Department of Education during the 2022-2023 school year based on ESSA accountability criteria. Title I school-wide programs are the dominant model for school reform. The model is designed to generate high levels of academic achievement in core academic areas for all students, especially those who are not proficient in meeting the educational content and achievement standards set by the Tennessee Department of Education.
Craigmont continues to strive toward meeting or exceeding state achievement and growth goals in mathematics (Algebra I, Algebra II, Unified Geometry), English language arts (English I, English II), science (Biology), and social studies (U.S. History), as well as the graduation rate. As we strive to provide our students with a well-rounded education, we seek to improve factors for attendance, discipline, early post-secondary opportunities (College and Career Technical Education, Dual Enrollment, Statewide Dual Credit, ASVAB), and ACT performance.
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Title I Overview
Title I serves schools with two program models: schoolwide and targeted assistance. A schoolwide program is a comprehensive reform strategy designed to upgrade the entire educational program in a Title I school; its primary goal is to ensure that all students, particularly those who are low-achieving, demonstrate proficient and advanced levels of achievement by state academic achievement standards. This schoolwide reform strategy requires that a school does the following:
- Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment;
- Identify and commit to specific goals and strategies that address those needs;
- Create a comprehensive plan;
- Conduct an annual review of the effectiveness of the schoolwide program and revise the plan as necessary.
Adopting this strategy should result in an ongoing, comprehensive plan unique to the entire school community. Schoolwide program schools emphasize serving all students, improving all structures that support student learning, and combining all resources, as allowed, to achieve a common goal. Schoolwide programs maximize the impact of Title I.
The following are actions evidenced in schoolwide programs:
- Plan for comprehensive, long-term improvement;
- Serve all students with highly-qualified teachers and paraprofessionals;
- Provide continuous learning for staff, parents, and the community;
- Use research-based practices to develop and implement enriched instruction for all students;
- Use inclusive approaches to strengthen the school’s organizational structure;
- Consolidate resources to achieve program goals;
- Engage in continuous self-assessment and improvement; and
- Coordinate and integrate federal, state, and local services and programs.
A targeted assistance program signifies that the services are provided to a select group of children--those identified as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the state’s challenging content and student performance standards--rather than for overall school improvement, as in schoolwide programs. Like schoolwide program schools, the goal of a targeted assistance school is to improve teaching and to learn to enable Title I, Part A participants to meet the challenging State performance standards that all children are expected to master.
The following are actions evidenced in targeted assistance programs:
- Based on effective means for improving the achievement of participating children;
- Use effective instructional strategies that give primary consideration to extended-time strategies;
- Provide accelerated, high-quality curricula, and minimize removing children from the regular classroom during regular school hours;
- Coordinate with and support the regular education program;
- Provide instruction by highly qualified and trained professional staff; and
- Implement strategies to increase parental involvement.
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Family Engagement Plan (2023-2024)
Family Engagement Plan School - 2023 – 2024
Craigmont High School
This Family Engagement Plan was jointly developed and agreed upon with parents to establish the expectations for parental involvement. We believe that education begins in the home; therefore, Craigmont High seeks to unite family, school, and community by jointly developing a school-parent compact with parents. We urge parents to take an active role in the academic and extracurricular activities of our students.
Parental Involvement
To draw the school experience into our students’ home lives, we encourage parents to do the following:
- Serve on the site-based leadership team and join the school’s parent organization
- Attend the Annual Title I meeting, grade level meetings, parent meetings, parent conferences, programs and PTSA meetings
- Volunteer their talents/services/time to the instructional program
- Include strategies for parents to attend professional development available to staff
Title I (ESSA) Involvement
The administration, faculty, and staff will provide a strategic plan and implement Title I requirements according to the guidelines set forth in the law which includes the following:
- Make parents aware of Title I and our participation by convening an annual parent meeting about school programs
- Provide parents with limited English proficiency, disabilities, and parents of migratory children access and opportunity to fully participate in school programs and the education of their children
- Provide parents with information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and activities in a language the parents can understand
- Involve parents in an organized, on-going, and timely way in planning, review, and improvement of the school parental involvement policy and joint development of the school-wide program plan (TSIP)
To ensure that parents of Craigmont High School participate in the development and implementation of the school’s program, we will do the following:
- Provide timely information to parents about school programs and activities through a flexible number of meetings – mornings or evenings, with parents, school newsletter, school website, emails, flyers, and a school calendar.
- Provide opportunities for regular meetings to which all parents are invited to inform parents of Title I requirements, the school’s participation in Title I, and the right of parents to be involved in decisions relating to the education of their children.
- Provide parents with a descriptive explanation of the curriculum in use at the school, forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.
- Build parent capacity for involvement by educating staff with the assistance of parents to value the contributions of parents, work and communicate with parents as equal partners to implement and coordinate parent programs and build strong school home ties.
- Build parent capacity for involvement by providing parents with assistance with understanding topics about state academic content standards, assessments, and materials and training to improve their child’s achievement.
Craigmont High will notify parents of this plan in an understandable and uniform format, and to the extent practicable, provide it in a language that parents can understand. Parents are encouraged to take an active role in school improvement. By making suggestions to improve our school, we can make a difference at Craigmont High School.
Reviewed and approved (May 2023)
Memphis-Shelby County Schools does not discriminate in its programs or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, handicap/disability, sex, or age.
Escuela del Plan de Participación Familiar - 2023 – 2024
Escuela Secundaria Craigmont
Este Plan de Participación Familiar fue desarrollado y acordado conjuntamente con los padres para establecer las expectativas de participación de los padres. Creemos que la educación comienza en el hogar; por lo tanto, Craigmont High busca unir a la familia, la escuela y la comunidad mediante el desarrollo conjunto de un pacto entre la escuela y los padres con los padres. Instamos a los padres a tomar un papel activo en las actividades académicas y extracurriculares de nuestros estudiantes.
Participación de los padres
Para llevar la experiencia escolar a la vida familiar de nuestros estudiantes, alentamos a los padres a hacer lo siguiente:
- Servir en el equipo de liderazgo basado en el sitio y unirse a la organización de padres de la escuela 2
- . Asistir a la reunión anual del Título I, reuniones de nivel de grado, reuniones de padres, conferencias de padres, programas y reuniones de PTSA
- Ofrecer voluntariamente sus talentos / servicios / tiempo al programa de instrucción
- Incluir estrategias para que los padres asistan al desarrollo profesional disponible para el personal
Participación del Título I (ESSA)
La administración, la facultad y el personal proporcionarán un plan estratégico e implementarán los requisitos del Título I de acuerdo con las pautas establecidas en la ley, que incluyen lo siguiente:
- Informar a los padres sobre el Título I y nuestra participación convocando una reunión anual de padres sobre los programas escolares
- Proporcionar a los padres con dominio limitado del inglés, discapacidades y padres de niños migrantes acceso y oportunidad de participar plenamente en los programas escolares y la educación de sus hijos.
- Proporcionar a los padres información relacionada con la escuela y los programas, reuniones y actividades para padres en un idioma que los padres puedan entender
- Involucrar a los padres de manera organizada, continua y oportuna en la planificación, revisión y mejora de la política de participación de los padres de la escuela y el desarrollo conjunto del plan del programa para toda la escuela (TSIP)
Para garantizar que los padres de Craigmont High School participen en el desarrollo e implementación del programa de la escuela, haremos lo siguiente:
- 1. Proporcione información oportuna a los padres sobre los programas y actividades escolares a través de un número flexible de reuniones: mañanas o tardes, con los padres, boletín escolar, sitio web de la escuela, correos electrónicos, volantes y un calendario escolar.
- Proporcionar oportunidades para reuniones regulares a las que todos los padres están invitados a informar a los padres sobre los requisitos del Título I, la participación de la escuela en el Título I y el derecho de los padres a participar en las decisiones relacionadas con la educación de sus hijos.
- Proporcione a los padres una explicación descriptiva del currículo en uso en la escuela, las formas de evaluación académica utilizadas para medir el progreso de los estudiantes y los niveles de competencia que se espera que alcancen.
- Desarrollar la capacidad de los padres para la participación educando al personal con la ayuda de los padres para que valore las contribuciones de los padres, trabaje y se comunique con los padres como socios iguales para implementar y coordinar programas para padres y construir fuertes lazos escolares en el hogar.
- Desarrollar la capacidad de los padres para la participación proporcionando asistencia a los padres con la comprensión de temas sobre los estándares estatales de contenido académico, evaluaciones y materiales y capacitación para mejorar el rendimiento de sus hijos.
Craigmont High notificará a los padres de este plan en un formato comprensible y uniforme, y en la medida de lo posible, lo proporcionará en un idioma que los padres puedan entender. Se alienta a los padres a tomar un papel activo en la mejora de la escuela. Al hacer sugerencias para mejorar nuestra escuela, podemos hacer una diferencia en Craigmont High School.
Revisado y aprobado (mayo de 2023)
Las Escuelas del Condado de Memphis-Shelby no discriminan en sus programas o empleo por motivos de raza, color, religión, origen nacional, discapacidad, sexo o edad.
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How Will My Child Benefit?
All students at Craigmont are supported in some way by Title I funding. In targeted assisted programs, only students identified as most at risk of not meeting proficiency participate in specialized supplemental educational programming. Currently, all Title I schools utilize the school-wide model. Title I funds are spent on personnel, instructional materials and supplies, technology, and parent activities. Committees of school personnel and parents, as well as input from annual surveys, decide how Title I funding can best meet the needs of all students. Parents are important to the Title I planning team; your involvement is encouraged and welcomed.
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Home and School Partnerships
Establishing a home and school partnership is essential to meet the needs of all students. Some of the activities supported by Title I funds include:
- Providing information through an annual parent meeting, parent involvement plan, parent-school-student compact, parent conferences, progress reports, notices, calendars, newsletters, webpages, and parent training.
- Sharing responsibility with family members through parent conferences, parent survey results, committees, parent-school-student compact, and involvement of parents by providing learning materials and community resources.
- Empowering parents by providing opportunities to become involved in the development and evaluation of the school-wide program, policies, and compact; opportunities to observe and assist in the classroom; opportunities to receive training and educational resources; and opportunities to receive information on community services and programs.
- Promoting accessibility with an inviting atmosphere, phone calls, personal notes, translated materials, or other accommodations that might break down barriers between school and home.
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If you have questions, comments, and/or suggestions about any of our Title I Schoolwide Programs at Craigmont High School, please complete the feedback form, or contact Kimberly Livingston, PLC Coach. Email: livingstonk@scsk12.org Office Number: 901-416-4250.
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Interested in being a part of the planning process? Complete the Parental Involvement and School Planning Sign-Up Form, and we will be in touch soon.