Rocket Review - Parents

I hope this message finds you well! As we gear up for an exciting and fast Spring semester in your child's education, I wanted to reach out and share some thoughts about how we can work together to ensure their success.

With the wrap up of this school year just around the corner and possible progress/retention conferences on the horizon, it's crucial that we create a supportive environment both at school and at home. By reinforcing positive behaviors and encouraging active listening, we can empower your child to make the most of their learning experience.

Here are a few friendly reminders that can make a big difference:

1. Encourage a Growth Mindset: Remind your child that their abilities are not fixed, and with effort and perseverance, they can overcome challenges and achieve great things.

2. Set a Routine: Establishing a consistent daily routine can help your child feel more organized and prepared for each school day. This includes a regular bedtime, a healthy breakfast, and dedicated study time.

3. Celebrate Achievements: Acknowledge and celebrate your child's accomplishments, no matter how big or small. Positive reinforcement goes a long way in boosting their confidence and motivation.

4. Open Communication: Keep the lines of communication open between us. If you notice any changes in your child's behavior or have any concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to support you and your child every step of the way.

Remember, we're a team, and together we can create an environment where your child can thrive academically and personally. Thank you for your ongoing support and partnership!

Wishing you and your family a fantastic Spring semester!

Warm regards,

Anitra Wilson, Principal

What started as Kindness Day turned into Kindness Week, where everyone is encouraged to make a similar declaration of kindness and charity. The week is celebrated by donating books, food, or clothes to local communities and pledging to empathize with other people. We will have daily reminders of ways to demonstrate kindness on the announcements in addition to dress up days.

Stop by to see our HBCU Mardi Gras Float Parade this Tuesday at 1:30pm. Classes will showcase Historically Black Colleges and Universities to encourage students to dream BIG in Mardi Gras fashion with class created floats in a parade! We will also feature our Hightower High School Band and other Rosa Parks ES performance groups!

If you are a mother (or other female figure) and have a son, please complete the survey to give your input on our upcoming Mother Son Event as we finalize our plans: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAEQp0w8DzlUMEVTNlpBQU80REI0T0NUMjBBMjJESlY5NS4u.

We want to send a huge shout out to our PTO and staff that made our 2nd Annual Father Daughter Dance a HUGE success!!! Our girls looked absolutely darling and our Dads were dashing in their suits! Great job everyone for making great memories for our Rocket girlies!

Time to place your orders for our 2023-2024 Yearbook!

To order visit: inter-state.com/order and enter this code: 83482H, or return envelope with cash- payment.

Para ordenar visite: inter-state.com/order e ingrese el codigo: 83482H, o regrese el sobre con efectivo.

Hello Rocket Families! Celebrate our Rosa Parks Elementary young artists with me!

Every month throughout the school year, every art teacher in the district gets to show off their student’s artwork at a chosen location for the public to see. Our amazing art department was able to work out a deal with Sugarland City Hall for our Fort bend teachers to display the students work. January was RPE’s time to shine! The pictures provided are by four of our amazing students who have worked hard this year and were chosen to be displayed.

Let us celebrate these amazing artists for their hard work and dedication here at RPE. I am honored and delighted to have taken these students to city hall. I can’t wait for next year’s artist to shine just as bright!

-Sincerely Ms. Mooneyham, RPE Art Teacher

February 4, 2024

Dear Parent:

Rosa Parks Elementary School is sharing this information about the district and your child’s campus with you as part of its obligations under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).

Federal Report Cards for the state, the district, and each of the district’s campuses are now available on the district’s website at this link: https://www.fortbendisd.com or are also available on the Texas Education Agency’s website at: https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/accountability/academic-accountability/performance-reporting/federal-report-cards.

Information on these report cards includes:

Part (i): General Description of the Texas State Accountability System

(I) the minimum number of students that the State determines are necessary to be included in each of the subgroups of students for use in the accountability system;

(II) the long-term goals and measurements of interim progress for all students and for each of the subgroups of students;

(III) the indicators used to meaningfully differentiate all public schools in the State;

(IV) the State’s system for meaningfully differentiating all public schools in the State, including—

(aa) the specific weight of the indicators in such differentiation;

(bb) the methodology by which the State differentiates all such schools;

(cc) the methodology by which the State differentiates a school as consistently underperforming for any subgroup of students; and

(dd) the methodology by which the State identifies a school for comprehensive support and improvement;

(V) the number and names of all public schools in the State identified by the State for comprehensive support and improvement or implementing targeted support and improvement plans;

(VI) the exit criteria established by the State, including the length of years established.

Part (ii): Student Achievement by Proficiency Level
This section provides information on student achievement on the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) performance for mathematics, reading/ELA, and science by grade level and proficiency level for the 2022-23 school year. These results include all students tested, regardless of whether they were in the accountability subset.

Part (iii)(I): Academic Growth
This section provides information on students’ academic growth for mathematics and reading/ELA for public elementary schools and secondary schools without a graduation rate, for the 2022-23 school year. These results include all students tested, regardless of whether they were in the accountability subset.

Part (iii)(II): Graduation Rate

This section provides information on high school graduation rates for the class of 2022.

Part (iv): English Language Proficiency

This section provides information on the number and percentage of English learners achieving English language proficiency based on the 2023 Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) data.

Part (v): School Quality or Student Success (SQSS)

This section provides information on school quality or student success, which is college, career and military readiness (CCMR) for high schools and average performance rate of the three STAAR performance levels of all students, regardless of whether they were in the accountability subset, for elementary and secondary schools without a graduation rate.

Part (vi): Goal Meeting Status

This section provides information on the progress of all students and each student group toward meeting the long-term goals or interim objectives on STAAR academic performance, federal graduation rate, and English learners’ language proficiency. (Not applicable to district and state report cards)

Part (vii): STAAR Participation

This section provides the percentage of students assessed and not assessed on STAAR for mathematics, reading/ELA, and science for the 2022-23 school year.

Part (viii): Civil Rights Data

Part (viii)(I): The section provides information from the 2020-21 Civil Right Data Collection (CRDC) surveys, submitted by school districts to the Office for Civil Rights, on measures of school quality, climate, and safety, including counts of in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, school-related arrests, referrals to law enforcement, chronic absenteeism (including both excused and unexcused absences), incidences of violence, including bullying and harassment.

Part (viii)(II): This section provides information from the 2020-21 CRDC surveys, submitted by school districts to the Office for Civil Rights, on the number of students enrolled in preschool programs and accelerated coursework to earn postsecondary credit while still in high school.

Part (ix): Teacher Quality Data

This section provides information on the professional qualifications of teachers, including information disaggregated by high- and low-poverty schools on the number and percentage of (I) inexperienced teacher, principals, and other school leaders; (II) teachers teaching with emergency or provisional credentials; and (III) teachers who are not teaching in the subject or field for which the teacher is certified or licensed.

Part (x): Per-pupil Expenditure

This section provides information on the per-pupil expenditures of federal, state, and local funds, including actual personnel expenditures and actual non-personnel expenditures, disaggregated by source of funds, for each school district and campus for the preceding fiscal year.

To be updated by June 30th, 2024.

Part (xi): STAAR Alternate 2 Participation

This section provides information on the number and percentage of students with the most-significant cognitive disabilities who take STAAR Alternate 2, by grade and subject for the 2022-23 school year.

Part (xii): Statewide National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

This section provides results on the state academic assessments in reading and mathematics in grades 4 and 8 of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, compared to the national average of such results.

Part (xiii): Cohort Rate of Graduates Enrolled in Postsecondary Education

This section provides information on the cohort rate at which students who graduated from high school in the 2020-21 school year enrolled in the 2021-22 academic year in (I) programs of public postsecondary education in Texas; (II) programs of private postsecondary education in Texas; and (III) programs of postsecondary education outside Texas.

Part (xiv): Additional Information – Chronic Absenteeism

This section provides information on the Chronic Absenteeism per EDFacts definition: percent of unduplicated number of K – 12 students enrolled in a school for at least 10 days and absent for 10% or more days during the 2021-22 school year.

If you have difficulty accessing the information from the website, hard copies of the reports are available at the district or campus office.

Sincerely,

Anitra Wilson, Principal

2/1-2/14 - Valentine Hearts for sale by Student Council - Students can buy cut out hearts for $1 to place on teacher's doors. The teacher with the most hearts gets a dozen roses and lunch.

2/12-2/16 - Random Acts of Kindness Week - flyer above

02/12 - 02/29 - Jump Rope for Heart Fundraiser! - Top Fundraisers in each class will participate in a jump rope challenge on Leap Day!

2/13 - HBCU Mardi Gras Float Parade at 1:30pm - parents are invited, see flyer above.

2/13 - NEHS Meeting afterschool

2/15 - GLOW Party for students that reached their Dreambox and Reading Plus lesson goals!!

2/15 - Early Release at 12:10pm

2/16 - No School (Professional Learning for Staff)

2/19 - No School

2/22 - PTO General Body Meeting and Black History Month Program (3rd grade performing) at 5pm

2/23 - Go Texan Day! Wear your coolest cowboy/girl duds!

2/27 - Spirit Night at Chick Fil A Sienna 4-8pm

2/29 - Leap Year - Leap/Jump Rope for Heart Challenge Jump-off!

03/01 - No School (Teacher Planning Day)

03/04 - Student Council meeting afterschool

03/04-03/08 - Read Across America Week (more details to come)

03/08 - Report Cards released in Skyward after 4pm

03/11-03/15 - No School - Spring Break!

03/18 - 03/22 - Spring Scholastic Book Fair

03/19 - Field Trip to Houston Children's Museum - Kindergarten

03/19 - NEHS Meeting afterschool

03/21 - Art, Music, and GT Showcase at 5pm (1st-5th grade Art on display and performances by select students)

03/28 - Bounce Bounce Spirit Night 4-8pm

03/29 - No School

04/01 - No School

04/01 - 04/05 - Assistant Principal's Week - show some love and appreciation to our Assistant Principal, Ms. Woodard!

04/03 - Field Trip to Constellation Field - 4th grade

04/04 - School Librarian Day - show some love to our School Librarian, Ms. Ellis!

04/08 - Student Council meeting afterschool

04/09 - NEHS Meeting afterschool

04/11 - Field Trip to Funtastik Labs - 2nd grade

04/12 - Progress Reports available in Skyward after 4pm

04/13 - FBISD Bookapalooza Book Conference at Dulles Middle School 9am-2pm

04/16 - STAAR Reading Test - 5th grade

04/17 - STAAR Reading Test - 4th grade

04/18 - STAAR Reading Test - 3rd grade

04/22 - Earth Day - Wear green and earth tone colors as we think of ways to save our earth!

04/23 - School Bus Driver Appreciation Day - show some love to your bus driver!

04/24 - STAAR Science Test - 5th grade

04/24 - Administrative Professionals Day - show some love to our campus administrative professionals!

04/30 - STAAR Math Test - 5th grade

05/01 - STAAR Math Test - 4th grade

05/02 - STAAR Math Test - 3rd grade

05/06 - Student Council meeting afterschool

05/06 - 05/10 - TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK!!! - Show all of our teachers and staff love and appreciation!

05/08 - School Nurse's Day! - send a note or goodie to our school nurse and aid, Dr. Lee and Ms. Roy!

05/10 - Field Day - Be here! We need your help!

05/13 - 05/17 - National Police Week - Show some love to our security officers and FBISD police!

05/14 - Awards in the classroom - 2nd and 3rd grades

05/15 - Awards and Performance in the cafeteria - 5th grade at 9am and Kinder at 12pm

05/16 - Awards in the classroom - PK, 1st, and 4th grades

05/21 - NEHS Meeting afterschool

05/22 - End of Year Class Parties

05/23 - Early Release at 12:10pm - Last Day of School - Report Cards released on Skyward after 4pm

Italicized dates are updates.

See flyer below.

Click here to join: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXBA6Kb2-WTnWzwwkKo95azNJoayR25lfBYR7L0JPB7R_L-A/viewform?pli=1

All students have access to some great online resources for practice at home! Many of our teachers have inserted resources for parents in their Schoology course and instructions are listed below. I've also included an attachment with a description of each of the online applications and games available to students.

Very soon, we will start our digital learning challenges that will include rewards and prizes for online usage! More info to come...

Math for grades K-5 use Dreambox Math

Reading for grades K-2 use Reading Park

Reading for grades 3-5 use Reading Plus

Please reach out to your child's teacher for log-in usernames and passwords.

Regular school attendance is essential for students to make the most of their education. Absences from class may result in serious disruption of a student’s mastery of the instructional materials/objectives; therefore, the student and parent should make every effort to avoid unnecessary absences. Please view the school calendar attached below.

8:10 a.m. - 3:25 p.m.

The doors open at 7:30 a.m.

Breakfast is served from 7:30-8:00 a.m.

PTO wants to help you celebrate your student's birthday with a little extra flair! See the attachment below for more information.

ADMINISTRATORS ARE AVAILABLE TO ASSIST YOU

In the event you have a question, concern, or a comment, please feel free to contact your campus administrators. We are here for you.

Principal, Anitra Wilson - anitra.wilson@fortbendisd.com

Asst. Principal, Anetria Woodard - anetria.woodard@fortbendisd.com

Counselor, Tahida Williams - tahida.williams@fortbendisd.com

Website: https://www.fortbendisd.com/rpe
Location: 19101 Chimney Rock Road, Fresno, TX, USA
Phone: 281-634-6390
Twitter: @RPE_Rockets