SMES SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT

School Responsibilities

All staff of Title I Targeted Assistance Schools will provide:

High-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment
Set learning goals based upon the individual needs of each student
Work that is relevant, interesting, and has real life applications that can be practiced at home
Parent-teacher conferences
Frequent reports on their child’s progress
An overall review of work via weekly graded work folders sent home
Mid-term progress reports sent home every 4.5 weeks
Nine week progress reports sent home at the end of each grading period
Other updates as needed via written or verbal communication
Parents reasonable access to staff by appointment
Access to the Title I teachers’ parent center
A timely response to any phone and/or email requests from parents
Parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class
Parents the opportunity to observe classroom activities by contacting the front office

Parent Responsibilities

We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways by assuring I will:

Make sure my child arrives to school on time and absences/check-outs are held to a minimum
Assist my child in the completion of his/her homework each day
Promote positive use of my child’s extracurricular time
Assist my child in seeing the connection between math/reading skills and his/her interest and goals
Read promptly all written communications from my child’s educators to stay informed.
Share with educators in my child’s learning journey by actively participating in decisions relating to my child’s education.
Respond promptly to my child’s progress reports and invitations to team with my child’s educators.
Volunteer to the extent possible in parent involvement activities and committees.
Read with my child daily.

Student Responsibilities

We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement by:

Setting learning goals and working every day toward these goals
Giving enthusiastic effort in all areas
Telling my teachers and family when I do not understand
Working on my learning goals using the strategies my teacher has shown me
Writing down assignments, strategies, examples and doing my homework every day
Giving my family all written items from my teacher every day
Giving my teacher all written items from my family every day
Taking care of all learning materials and after use at home, returning all materials to my teacher on time
Talking to my family and my teachers about my progress toward my learning goals
Celebrating my growth and creating ways to improve any weaknesses

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