School Responsibilities

1. Bowie Middle School will provide high quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to master the state’s student academic standards as follows:

• State TEKS/STAAR objectives, strategies, and formats will be utilized in daily drills, practice materials and tests. Board Policy EG Local, entitled Curriculum Development, clearly defines the comprehensive TEKS-based curriculum as the “what” to teach while the “how” to teach resides within effective planning of curriculum strategies.

• Administrators, department/team leaders, and teachers will use disaggregated data from previous STAAR testing and various other data sources to assist with individual student performance per subject, grade level, and sub population group.

• Individual tutoring in varied forms will be provided during and outside the school day by staff.

• All students that have missing or incomplete assignments will participate in academic tutoring. Teachers will draft names of students to participate in school wide tutorials every other Friday.

• Vertical alignment within each content area will be stressed as a departmental goal. The sharing of successful strategies will occur during daily academic planning meetings. The focus of the meetings will be the four questions that drive the professional learning community process. Documentation of meeting conversations and work will be documented on agendas for the year.

2. Hold Parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual students’ achievement.

3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their child’s behavior.

• School Wide access to grades through the Home Access Center (HAC), School Messenger, and e-mail access for parents to check on grades and communication with teachers.

• School Wide Progress Reports – distributed every three weeks

• School Wide Report Cards – distributed every six weeks

*All progress reports and report cards will be available in the Home Access Center (HAC) at the 3rd week and 6 weeks grading cycles.

4. Provide Parents reasonable access to staff.

• Parents may meet with the teachers during the teacher’s conference period with appointments being made in advance.

• Administrative staff will generally be available during the school day.

• A prior appointment is preferred and guarantees a visit with minimal to no wait time.

• Provide parents with opportunities to volunteer on campus and be involved in the educational process.

• Parents are always welcome to volunteer through the parent center during the school day and may observe any classroom w/ 24 hour notice for 15 minute time periods.

• Bowie’s bond with the Parent Teacher’s Association (PTA) and other community organizations throughout the year will be a focus.

• Bowie will provide parent workshops/training through a variety of formats to reinforce the importance of parent involvement in their child’s education.

• There will be parent information meetings for parents and community to learn about school accountability ratings, school goals, volunteer opportunities, attendance ratings, and other important information.

Parent Responsibilities

We, as parents, will support our child’s education in the following ways:

• Monitoring attendance

• Making sure students are provided will all the school supplies necessary for class.

• Supporting and helping to enforce all school rules.

• Making sure that the student has completed their homework for class

• Enforcing a 30-minute reading time each night.

• Supporting tutorials and ensuring that their student attends tutoring when their academic process indicates a need.

• Ensuring that all assignments are turned in on time and corrected in tutoring when the student has not yet demonstrated mastery.

• Monitoring the amount of television our children watch.

• Volunteering in our children’ classroom

• Participating, as appropriate, in decisions related to our children’s education.

• Promoting positive use of our children’s extracurricular time.

• Staying informed about our children’s education and communicating with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or school district.

• Serving to the extent possible on policy advisory groups such as being the Title I, Part A parent representative on the School’s Improvement Team, the Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the district wide Parent Advisory Council, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, or other school advisory or policy groups.

Student Responsibilities

We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and work to achieve the state’s highest standards. Specifically, we will:

• Attend school daily unless illness or emergency family matters hinders my attendance responsibility

• Follow the student code of conduct.

• Report to class with a positive attitude and all required materials and school supplies.

• Complete all homework every day and ask for help as needed.

• Seek/ attend tutoring when I have an incomplete or missing assignment or any assignment I do not fully understand.

• Read at least 30 minutes outside of school every day.

• Give my parent or guardian all notices and information received from school every day.

Additional Required School Responsibilities

Bowie Middle School will:

1. Involve parents in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s parental engagement policy in an organized, ongoing, and timely fashion.

2. Involve parents in the joint development of any school wide program plan, in an organized, ongoing, and timely fashion.

3. Hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in Title I, Part A programs, and to explain the title I, Part A requirements, and the rights of the parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs.

4. Provide information to parents of participating students in an understandable and uniform format, including alternate formats upon the request of parents with disabilities. To the extent practicable, information will be presented in a language that parents are familiar.

5. Provide to parents of participating children information in a timely manner about Title I, Part A programs that includes a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure a child’s progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.

6. On 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 child. The school will respond to any suggestions as soon as practically possible.

7. Provide to each parent an individual student report about the performance of their child on the state assessment in at least one or more of their core subjects.

8. Provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four (4) or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified within the meaning of the term in section 200.56 of the Title I Final Regulations (67 Fed. Reg. 71710, December 2, 2002).

Optional School Responsibilities

To help build and develop a partnership with parents to help their children achieve the state’s high academic standards, Bowie Middle School will:

• Recommend to the local education agency (LEA), the names of parents of participating children of Title I, Part A programs who are interested in serving on the State’s Committee of Practitioners and School Support Teams.

• Notify parents of the school’s participation in the following programs:

• Kick Start, Double Blocked Math, Double Blocked ELAR, SPED services, MTA, Response to Intervention (RTI), and Student Success Plan.

• Work with the LEA in addressing problems, if any, in implementing parental involvement activities in section 1118 of Title I, Part A.

• Work with the LEA to ensure that a copy of the SEA’s written complaint procedures for resolving any issue of violation(s) of a federal statue or regulation of Title I, Part A programs is provided to parents of students and to appropriate private school officials or representatives.