Gray Middle School Parent Involvement Policy
Working together: Home, School, and Community
We believe that families, the community, and the school working together will ensure quality experiences for our students. As part of our school improvement plan, we have a full slate of parent and community activities planned to address the needs and concerns of our biggest supporters.
We encourage you to be involved with our school, please call (253) 571-1860.
1. Gray Middle School will take the following actions to involve parents in the joint development, review and improvement of its school parental involvement plan:
a. Representation on School Improvement Team
b. Representation on School Centered Decision Making Team
c. Policy made available to all parents
d. Policy made available for parents to review in the main office
e. Representation on the District’s Parent Involvement Council
2. Gray Middle School will take the following actions to involve parents in the process of school development, review and improvement of the school/parent compact.
a. Representation on School Improvement Team
b. Representation on School Centered Decision Making Team
c. Compact made available at all parent/student events and parent conferences
d. Compact will be posted in all classrooms and made available for parents to review in the
main office
e. Compact will be printed in the Student Handbook
f. Newsletter
g. Gray Middle School website
3. Gray Middle School will hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in the Title I program and to explain the Title I requirements and the right of parents to be involved. The school will convene the meeting at a time convenient for parents and will offer a flexible number of additional parental involvement meetings, such as in the morning, afternoon or evening, so that as many parents as possible are able to attend. The school will invite all parents of children participating in the Title I program to this meeting and encourage them to attend by:
a. Translators
b. School Newsletter
c. Additional Meetings: Coffee Talks, Morning Parent Meetings
d. Open House
e. Family Involvement Nights
4. Gray Middle School will provide parents of participating children information in a timely manner about Title I programs that includes a description and an explanation of the school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure children’s progress, and the proficiency level students are expected to meet by inviting parents to attend and participate in:
a. Open House
b. Family Involvement Nights
c. Parent Workshops
d. Program Nights
e. End of Semester Celebration
5. Gray Middle School will at the request of parents, provide opportunities for regular meetings for parents to formulate suggestions and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions about the education of their children. The school will respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible by:
a. Individual requests through principal/counselors/teachers
b. Opportunity to serve on school decision-making committees
c. Parent/Teacher Conferences
d. Student-Led Conferences
6. Gray Middle School will provide each parent an individual student report about the performance of their child on the State assessment in at least math, reading, and language arts by:
a. Student-Led Conferences
b. Individual requests by parents to counselors
c. Goal setting by students
7. Gray Middle School will provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s academic achievement, such as math training, literacy training, technology training, and ways parents may be more effectively involved, to foster parental involvement by:
a. Family Involvement Nights
b. Family Project
c. Parent Involvement Coordinator
8. Gray Middle School will, with the assistance of its parents, educate its teachers, pupil services personnel, principals and other staff on how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how to implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between parents and schools, by:
a. Partnering with the District’s School, Family, Community Partnership Program
b. Title I Parent Involvement Council
9. Gray Middle School will take the following actions to ensure that information related to the school and parent programs, meeting and other activities is communicated to parents in an understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon request, and to the extent practicable, in a language parents can understand:
a. School newsletter
b. School calendar
c. School website
d. Student Handbook
e. Individual phone calls made by staff and volunteers
f. Letters and invitations to parents
g. Information provided by OSPI
h. Connect ED