Our Family and Community Engagement Committee, which includes school staff and parents, will work together to write and implement our parent and family engagement plan. This will include reviewing parent survey data together, discussing district and building goals, generating ideas, and writing the plan. We meet periodically to review the plan, determine any necessary changes, and adjust the plan accordingly. All parents will be asked to complete a survey that will be used to inform and guide goals and elements included in our plan. Upon completion of the Title I parent meeting and after survey results, any concerns of parents will be submitted to the district.  Cutter Morning Star School will hold our annual Title I meeting on Friday, August 9th 2019 at 6:00 pm in our Library. Parents will be informed of the requirement of Title I and our school's participation as well as the parents' rights to be involved. At the public meeting we will disseminate information and distribute copies of our revised parent and family engagement policy.Our parent and community involvement plan will be posted online and in our student handbook, including the name, phone extension, and email address of our building facilitators, Sarah Richardson and Breann Johnston. We will ensure parent receipt of these items by a signature page at the end of our handbook. The plan will be reviewed by at least 2 parents to ensure it is in parent-friendly language and that it is appropriate for the families in our school. The plan, along with volunteer survey, volunteer opportunity information, ideas for parents to become involved in our school, and a calendar of events will be included in our beginning of the year packet, in weekly newsletters from our principal, and through weekly communication from parents. Parents will also be connected to our school for two- way communication through email, phone, and various apps). 

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The District will involve parents in the development of the Districts Parent & Family Engagement plan by engaging parents in the annual evaluation of the Title I, Part A Program's and the development of the school improvement plans as well as the school-wide program plan.

The Title I committee, made up of teachers. parents, and school staff, will determine the effectiveness of the Parental & Family Engagement Plans and make changes if needed. Collecting evidence about satisfaction with the program and the district's efforts to increase parental and family will be a part of the evaluation. The survey will also collect specific information on the (1) growth in the number of parents participating in workshops and meetings. (2) specific needs of parents. (3) effectiveness of specific strategies and (4) engagement of parents in activities to support student academic growth.

The District Parent & Family Engagement Plan will be uploaded to the Arkansas Department of Education using Indistar, posted to the district website, and placed in the student handbook.

The District Parent & Family committee will ensure each campus involves parents and families in decisions regarding how funds are allotted for activities.

Each year, the District Parent a& Family Engagement Committee will evaluate and update the plan and it's members who consist of parents, families, teachers, and other staff members.

Through a survey, parents will have an opportunity to give feedback on each campus school plan. If parents the plan to be unsatisfactory, the committee will meet to determine if changes need to be made.

Cutter Morning Star School will provide the required number of hours of training in the area of family engagement for our teachers and parents by:

Providing coordination, technical assistance, and other support to schools in jointly-developing school parent and family engagement plans, implementing effective parent and family involvement activities and jointly-developing school-parent compacts

Train teachers, specialized instructional support personnel, principals, and other school leaders, and other staff, with the assistance of parents, in the value and utility of contributions of parents; how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners; how to implement and coordinate parent programs; and how to build ties between parents and the school

We will also plan to provide consultation with families and/or community through surveys, virtual meetings, emails, newsletters, and phone calls because of limited face-to-face contact.  

We will provide training annually for volunteers as allowed by DESE and Health Department guidelines 

Additionally we will place a parent-friendly summary of the (district) parent and Family engagement plan as a supplement to the student handbook and obtain signatures from each parent acknowledging receipt of the (district's) parent and family engagement plan 

Finally, we will ensure information is sent in a language and format parents and families can understand

Through our District's Family and Community Engagement Plan we will provide assistance to parents, as appropriate, in understanding  the challenging State academic standards; State and local academic assessments; the requirements of Title I, Part A; and  how to monitor a child's progress and work with educators to improve the achievement of their children  

We will provide materials and training to help parents to work with their children to improve their children's achievement such as literacy training and using technology (including education about the harms of copyright piracy), as appropriate, to foster parental involvement  And we will provide such other reasonable support for parental involvement activities under this section as parents may request 

We will share curriculum information and other discretionary items during our Face-to Face and Virtual Open houses, parent-teacher conferences, phone calls and emails.  Specifically, during our parent-teacher conferences, which are scheduled for October and February  for the 2020-2021 school year,  we we will share student assessment results and our assessment processes with parents. Teachers will use the learning platforms; Seesaw, Canvas, and TAC/ HAC to keep parents updated on their child's grades and attendance. Each teacher will establish procedures through our LMS; emails; texts, phone calls and face-to-face conferences for parents to receive the specific but confidential information on the academic requirements and progress for their student.  

Cutter Morning Star School District does not receive more than $500,000 in Title I allocations and as such are not required to required to reserve funds.

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Each campus sets aside an allocation of Title I funds to be used for Parent & Family Engagement activities.

The Parent & Family Engagement committee on each campus determines how the allocation will be spent, based on the needs of the parents & families and as discussed with the Parent & Family Engagement Committee. These decisions are supported by the District Parent & Family Engagement Committee. 

A needs assessment and survey is completed annually. Based on the needs assessment and survey, barriers and needs are identified and evidence based strategies are developed to identify more effective parent and family engagement.

The District Parent and Family Engagement committee will review and approve each school plan as well as review and update annually.

The following is a list of current community resources being used to support our school.

● Arkansas Learning Through The Arts - Residencies from in state artists take place throughout the building and throughout the year. We also attend the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's yearly program through the support of this program.

● Food Bank - Our foodbank relies on donations and support from many local organizations and businesses. This incluldes a yearly event called Orange Week to raise awareness of childhood hunger and raise money for our foodbank. Each week, community volunteers prepare the food bags for distribution.

● We partner with the Imagination Library to provide books for students who might otherwise not have access to them.

● In May, we hold an annual event to connect families and local agencies that can support them in the summer and year round. This includes services and programs available to families, along with volunteer opportunities. Agencies include Bridges Out of Poverty, YMCA, Garland County Library, Jackson House (an agency that provides lunches to people in need and other services), local foodbanks, and summer camp opportunities.

● We also provide a list of agencies and support programs to families in our beginning of the year packet.

● Our teachers regularly reach out to local community agencies and individuals to support learning in the classrooms, such as local professionals to share their expertise.

We maintain a parent support center, which includes a computer for families to access information to support their child's learning. There is also information in the form of books, pamphlets and more to help parents address specific parenting issues. We encourage and collaborate with our Parent Teacher Association, the Eagle Parent Involvement Committee.  

This plan will be incorporated into the school improvement plan.

This year, Cutter Morning Star High School will reach out to community members to bring guest speakers into the classroom and work with the Garland County Library to provide programming to students on the school campus. We will have a Literacy Night, and we will reach out to various businesses and organizations for sponsorship. We maintain a parent support center, which includes a computer for families to access information to support their child's learning. There is also information in the form of books, pamphlets and more to help parents address specific parenting issues. We encourage and collaborate with our Parent Teacher Association, the Eagle Parent Involvement Committee.