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 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, a targeted assistance school aims to improve teaching and learning, enabling 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.

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, webpage, 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.

All students at Douglass 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, 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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Douglass High School will ensure the effective involvement of families and will support a partnership among the school, families, and the community to improve student academic achievement. To ensure that the needs of all stakeholders are met, the Family Engagement Plan was jointly developed through the collaboration of teachers, parents, administrators, students, and community members. The school will provide quality education for all students by providing a safe and nurturing environment that enables every student to attain academic proficiency in all subjects and to become productive citizens.  Douglass High School will encourage a strong home-school partnership that ensures a safe, challenging, and inspiring environment where all stakeholders will work and learn together.  To promote student success, our parents will work with the school by acting as advisors, resource persons, and coordinators in the following ways:

 

1. Become school advocates and offer support.
2. Utilize their talents and/or resources to enhance the instructional programs at our school.
3. Serve on the Shelby County Schools Based Decision-Making Council and become an active member of the PTO.
4. Respond to questionnaires, surveys, and memos expressing thoughts, suggestions, and concerns.
5. Attend school events and serve as advisors to various organizations.

 

Title I Involvement

The administrators, faculty, and staff will provide a strategic plan and implement Title I requirements according to the guidelines outlined in the law, which include the following:

 

1. Inform parents of Title I requirements and our school’s participation at the annual Title I meeting.
2. Allow parents to observe the school’s programs and visit classrooms, supporting classroom instruction.
3. Provide parents with student information and send home progress reports in the middle of each of the nine weeks.
4. Provide two-way communication between parents and the school.
5. Provide parents with assessment results.
6. Provide parents with a copy of the Family Engagement Plan, Student Code of Conduct, and ESSA Parents’ Right-To-Know.
7. Provide parents with a description and explanation of the curriculum used at Shelby County, forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.

 

To ensure that our parents participate in the development and implementation of our school’s program, we will do the following:

 

1. Inform parents of their rights to be involved in their child’s education.
2. Encourage parental involvement in an organized, ongoing, and timely way in the planning, reviewing, and improving programs for family engagement and Family Engagement Plan.
3. Provide flexible times for our parents to attend parent meetings, with opportunities to attend regular meetings at night and alternate meetings in the morning of the same week, and may provide Title I funds, transportation, childcare, or home visits, as deemed necessary to help remove barriers to parent/guardian participation in these school activities and meetings.
4. Provide parents with training that will support our students’ education.
5. Jointly develop a school/parent compact with parents showing how parents, schools, and students have shared responsibilities by distributing and acquiring appropriate signatures of all stakeholders (parents, students, and teachers).
6. Encourage parents to visit our school regularly and actively participate in school planning by serving on the School Improvement Plan committees.
7. Provide timely information about programs under family engagement through Parent Link, Power Teacher, flyers, FDHS Express, ROBO-Call, PTO website, Shelby County Website, school marquee, and Shelby County Newsletter articles.
8. We will assist in parental training in Writing, Reading, Math, and ELL instruction and parenting sessions.
9. Parents will be encouraged to volunteer in the school at designated times determined by the administration.
10. We will hold curriculum nights, data nights, senior-night informational sessions, parenting sessions, and other family involvement activities throughout the school year.
11. The PLC Coach will provide parents with resources that will help support student achievement.
12. Awards assemblies will be held after each 9-week academic grading period.
13. Parent-teacher conferences are held at flexible times to discuss student progress. The Student-School- Parent Compact will be reviewed with parents throughout the school year. Teachers will also communicate with parents through interim reports, emails, newsletters, the Power School portal, and the agenda book.
14. Red Ribbon Week will be held in October and is a wonderful time to remind our students to stay drug-free. Parents are invited to participate in the festivities during our campaign against drugs.
15. We promote “Pastries with Parents,” where parents can share pastries with their children while engaging in learning. Student work is displayed for the event.
16. The Mr. and Miss Douglass Coronation is held in the winter to promote students’ talents and abilities.
17. The event will allow students to showcase their vocabulary acquisition knowledge, including spelling, definitions, and word usage. 
18. Career Day will be held for stakeholders in the community to come and share skills, educational opportunities, and careers with students.
19. Parents and families receive Douglass High School correspondence, messages, and flyers in Spanish. 

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La Escuela Secundaria Douglass asegurará la participación efectiva de las familias y apoyará una asociación entre la escuela, las familias y la comunidad para mejorar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. Con el fin de asegurar que se satisfagan las necesidades de todos los interesados, el Plan de Participación Familiar fue desarrollado conjuntamente a través de la colaboración de maestros, padres, administradores, estudiantes y miembros de la comunidad. La escuela proporcionará educación de calidad para todos los estudiantes al ofrecer un entorno seguro y enriquecedor que permita a cada estudiante alcanzar competencia académica en todas las materias y convertirse en ciudadanos productivos.

La Escuela Secundaria Douglass fomentará una sólida asociación entre el hogar y la escuela que asegure un entorno seguro, desafiante e inspirador donde todos los interesados trabajarán y aprenderán juntos.

Para promover el éxito estudiantil, nuestros padres colaborarán con la escuela actuando como asesores, personas de recursos y coordinadores de las siguientes maneras:

1. Convertirse en defensores de la escuela y ofrecer apoyo.
2. Utilizar sus talentos y/o recursos para mejorar los programas educativos en nuestra escuela.
3. Servir en el Consejo de Toma de Decisiones Basado en Escuelas del Condado de Shelby y ser miembros activos de la PTO.
4. Responder a cuestionarios, encuestas y memorandos expresando pensamientos, sugerencias y preocupaciones.
5. Asistir a eventos escolares y servir como asesores de varias organizaciones.

Participación del Título I Los administradores, facultativos y 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:

1. Informar a los padres sobre los requisitos del Título I y la participación de nuestra escuela en la reunión anual del Título I.
2. Permitir que los padres observen los programas escolares y visiten las aulas, apoyando la instrucción en el aula.
3. Proporcionar a los padres información sobre los estudiantes y enviar informes de progreso a casa a mediados de cada nueve semanas.
4. Proporcionar una comunicación bidireccional entre los padres y la escuela.
5. Proporcionar a los padres los resultados de las evaluaciones.
6. Proporcionar a los padres una copia del Plan de Participación Familiar, el Código de Conducta Estudiantil, el Derecho a Saber de los Padres bajo la ESSA.
7. Proporcionar a los padres una descripción y explicación del plan de estudios utilizado en el Condado de Shelby, las formas de evaluación académica utilizadas para medir el progreso de los estudiantes y los niveles de competencia que se espera que los estudiantes alcancen.

 

Para asegurar que nuestros padres participen en el desarrollo e implementación del programa de nuestra escuela, haremos lo siguiente:

1. Informar a los padres sobre sus derechos para participar en la educación de sus hijos.
2. Fomentar la participación de los padres de manera organizada, continua y oportuna en la planificación, revisión y mejora de los programas de participación familiar y el Plan de Participación Familiar.
3. Proporcionar horarios flexibles para que nuestros padres asistan a reuniones, con oportunidades de asistir a reuniones regulares por la noche y reuniones alternativas por la mañana de la misma semana, y podemos proporcionar, con fondos del Título I, transporte, cuidado infantil o visitas domiciliarias, según sea necesario para ayudar a eliminar barreras para la participación de padres/tutores en estas actividades y reuniones escolares.
4. Proporcionar a los padres capacitación que apoyará la educación de nuestros estudiantes.
5. Desarrollar conjuntamente con los padres un pacto escuela/padre que muestre cómo los padres, las escuelas y los estudiantes tienen responsabilidades compartidas, distribuyendo y adquiriendo firmas apropiadas de todos los interesados (padres, estudiantes y maestros).
6. Fomentar que los padres visiten regularmente nuestra escuela y desempeñen un papel activo en la planificación escolar sirviendo en los comités del Plan de Mejora Escolar.
7. Proporcionar información oportuna sobre programas, bajo participación familiar a través de ParentLink, Power Teacher, volantes, FDHS Express, ROBO-Call, sitio web de la PTO, Sitio web del Condado de Shelby, cartelera escolar y artículos en el boletín informativo del Condado de Shelby.
8. Ayudaremos en la capacitación de los padres en áreas de Escritura, Lectura, Matemáticas e instrucción de ELL y sesiones para padres.
9. Se alentará a los padres a ser voluntarios en la escuela en horarios designados por la administración.
10. Realizaremos Noches de Currículo, Noches de Datos, Información Senior-Noche, Sesiones para Padres y otras actividades de participación familiar durante todo el año escolar.
11. El Entrenador de PLC proporcionará recursos para padres que ayudarán a apoyar el rendimiento estudiantil.
12. Se realizarán asambleas de premios al concluir cada período de calificaciones académicas de nueve semanas.
13. Las conferencias de padres y maestros se realizan en horarios flexibles para discutir el progreso estudiantil. El Pacto Estudiante-Escuela-Padre se revisará durante todo el año escolar con los padres. Los maestros también se comunicarán con los padres a través de informes interinos, correos electrónicos, boletines informativos, portal Power School y el libro de agenda.
14. La Semana del Listón Rojo se llevará a cabo en octubre y es un momento maravilloso para recordar a nuestros estudiantes que se mantengan libres de drogas. Se invita a los padres a participar en todas las festividades durante nuestra campaña contra las drogas.
15. Promovemos "Pastelería con los Padres" donde los padres son invitados a compartir pasteles con sus hijos mientras participan en el proceso de aprendizaje. El trabajo de los estudiantes se exhibe para el evento.
16. La Coronación de Mr. y Miss Douglass se lleva a cabo en invierno para promover los talentos y habilidades de los estudiantes.
17. La Librería Scholastic está abierta diariamente para promover la lectura.
18. Los padres, administradores, estudiantes y otros interesados quieren promover e implementar un Concurso de Ortografía/Vocabulario para mejorar y ampliar la adquisición de vocabulario de los estudiantes en los grados 9-11. El evento brindará a los estudiantes la oportunidad de mostrar su conocimiento en adquisición de vocabulario que incluye ortografía, definiciones y uso de palabras.
19. Se realizará un Día de Carreras para que los interesados de la comunidad vengan y compartan habilidades, oportunidades educativas y carreras con los estudiantes.
20. Los padres y familias recibirán correspondencias, mensajes y volantes de la Escuela Secundaria Douglass en español.

 

  

Las Escuelas del Condado de Shelby ofrecen oportunidades educativas y laborales sin importar la raza, el color, el origen nacional, la religión, el sexo o la discapacidad.