Parental Involvement Policy for Robert E. Cashion Elementary School

The administrators and staff at Robert E. Cashion Elementary School strongly believe that school serves as the hub of the community.  The staff definitely believes that the strength of the school is enhanced when a nurturing and cooperative environment occurs between home, school and community.  We realize that parents are the child’s first teachers.  The relationship between home and school is of utmost importance.  There must be reciprocal support of these two major institutions in each child’s life.  We need and desire to have our Robert E. Cashion parents actively partner with us in the social and educational process of our students.  To this end we pledge our support to students, parents and community to use the strategies listed below to implement our first year parental involvement policy for the new Robert E. Cashion Elementary School.

• Robert E. Cashion Elementary School staff will work closely with the district Title I office to see that the school involves parents in the development of the parental involvement policy.
• Robert E. Cashion Elementary School staff will gather data, provide materials, and training to help promote effective parent involvement.
• Cashion Elementary School will provide social work services for students and parents to assist with home-school connection.
• The school will work with the PTA, SIC, community agencies, and businesses to increase parent participation in the school processes.
• The school will work with the district officials to implement special district programs, such as, Adult Education, parenting classes, early childhood development programs, 4K programs, Parents as Teachers Programs and other Family Literacy programs.
• The Cashion School Parent Advisory Council will provide input and feedback for the district

• Robert E. Cashion staff will inform parents of all school and parent programs, meetings and activities and keep records of attendance and involvement.
• The school will provide opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children, including providing information and school reports in easy to understand language.
• We will provide all parents of participating Title I students access to the parental involvement policy near the beginning of the school year.
• The staff will provide all parents of students in Title I schools information about their right to know the qualifications and status of the teachers, paraprofessionals and substitutes who work with their students.  They will be notified of any who do not meet highly qualified criteria as legislated in the No Child Left Behind law.
• We will solicit parental input and feedback for revisions or improvements to the local school’s School-Parent-Student Compact.
• The school will secure 100% of parents’ signatures on the Robert. E. Cashion School-Parent-Student Compact.
• Students and parents will be encouraged to review homework daily, Monday through Thursday. 

• Students in grades two through five will be provided with Assignment Notebooks to use between home and school for daily communication regarding behavioral and academic success.  These will further enhance organizational skills, setting goals, and self assessment skills of the students.
• All Cashion families will receive weekly Monday Memos to inform parents of instructional objectives, skills of study, school news, upcoming events, deadlines for projects, etc.
• The school will offer district required mid-term progress reports and quarterly Report Cards to inform parents of the academic success of their children.
• We will solicit 100% parent-teacher conferences for the first quarter of school.  Encourage all parents to attend third quarter conferences and schedule others as needed or requested.
• Parents will receive feedback on all major student assessments, and standardized test results.
• Parents are encouraged to visit the school when various events are held that afford those opportunities.  Children are proud when they see their parent participate at the school or assist at home with school projects.
• The school will solicit parents as volunteers or to serve on committees for their input into decisions about the school and school programs.
• We will schedule requested parent visits and observations of classroom programs and activities.  These need to be pre-scheduled with the teacher.  We ask parents not to bring younger siblings into the classroom and to limit classroom visits to one hour.  We need to keep distractions of the learning process to a minimum.
• We will encourage parents to log reading times and numbers of books read with their children at home.
• Robert E. Cashion Staff will solicit parent signatures as documentation of attendance at school programs, activities, conferences, meetings, training workshops and in-services.
• Parents will be informed through various communications about the school and its programs and their children and their academic progress; such as, Monday Memos, Principal’s Newsletter, Assignment Notebooks,   Home School Tip Sheets, Volunteer Breakfast and Volunteer Workshops, Open House, Back to School Night, etc.
• Robert E. Cashion Elementary will afford numerous opportunities for parents to visit the school that are fun and educational; such as, Quarterly Awards Days, Breakfast for Dads, Goodies for Grands, Muffins for Moms, School-wide Picnic, Field Days, Fundraiser Festivals, Math and Science Night, International Festival, 5^th Grade Day, PTA Events, and Parenting Workshops.