Title I Handbook

The district annually reviews the District Family and Parent Engagement Policy. This review process includes a draft of the proposed policy made available to all parents for review and response through a google survey. The responses are reviewed and revisions made annually.

Annually LYSD provides districtwide family engagement professional development to ensure staff have the most current best practices in engagement.

LYSD sets aside 1% of the total appropriated Title IA funds towards family engagement activities. 90% of the 1% is provided directly to the individual school sites as a separate Family Engagement allocation. Individual sites have family engagement budgets and family engagement plans. The Technical assistance workshops provide site Title I teams with guidance on family engagement expectations and documentation process including the Title I Annual Meeting.

• The district conducts two annual Technical Assistance Workshops for School Wide Planning. These Technical Assistance meetings include site teams district wide and provide guidance for completing the statewide planning templates:

• The purpose of Title I

• Where to locate planning documents within the district Google Folder system

• Update Planning team members

• Review current data complete comprehensive needs assessment

• Create plan goals

• Create action plan to support those goals

• Create budget plan to support goals

• Review parent engagement plan documents

• Plan for parent engagement events

• Review documentation requirements

Site Title I team members including administration, teachers, paraprofessionals, and community are invited to these workshops. Each site is then required to conduct an Annual Title I Meeting where the parents and community are provided time for feedback regarding the school wide plan, the parent and family engagement plan, and the school compact. After the plan is finalized during the Fall semester the plans are posted on the district website. The Fall Technical Assistance PPT was referenced in(I -A 3). In addition to these workshop times the Federal Programs Director will meet with individual sites to revise plans and budgets each semester.

LYSD Title I Plans

The district annually reviews the District Family and Parent Engagement Policy. This review process includes a draft of the proposed policy made available to all parents for review and response through a google survey. The responses are reviewed and revisions made annually.

Annually LYSD provides districtwide family engagement professional development to ensure staff have the most current best practices in engagement.

The district will follow the school board guidelines as described in BP 6174.1 and AR 6171 The district conducts an annual review of all required programs each March as a part of the PAC-NEC annual meeting. Tribal entities, parent representatives, community partners, regional school board members, and district staff will be notified of the meeting and provided all the presentations in a timely manner prior to the meeting date. The district will annually survey all registered parents/guardians regarding applicable programs.

The district will follow the school board guidelines as described in BP 6174.1 and AR 6171. School site Title I planning teams are provided guidance on parent engagement requirements as a part of the Fall and Spring Technical Assistance workshops. Oversight of those responsibilities are discussed during the semester 1 and semester 2 follow up meetings. The expectations for site parent engagement are:

1. Completion of an Annual Meeting at each site where parents are presented critical Title I site information including; description of curriculum, current student achievement markers, and information on how parents can participate in decision making.

2. The creation and revision of a School Site Compact. These compacts are reviewed and revised after community feedback is collection during Annual Meeting. Compacts will describe the responsibilities of each stakeholder and will be published on the district website.

3. The creation and revision of a School Site Parent and Family Engagement. This plan will include the four mandatory engagement events and a timeline for each event.

4. Engagement events will be documented through collection of advertisements, agendas, or presentation materials. Sign in sheets will be filed in site based family engagement google folders.

Once these documents are finalized during the first semester all plans will be published on the district website.

LYSD will notifies annually Parents of all children attending Title I-A schools have been notified at the beginning of each school year that they can request information on the professional qualifications of the student’s classroom teachers including:

☐ whether the student’s teacher

• has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction;

• is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived; and

• is teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher; and

☐ whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals, and, if so, their qualifications.

Letters are created by the Human Resources Department disseminated to Principals. Principals are directed to send letters to families through the postal service.

LYSD recognizes the qualification of the site paraprofessional is a critical part of the instructional framework. Therefore the district, through the Human Resources Department, ensures that:

All instructional paraprofessionals working in a Title I-A schoolwide program or instructional paraprofessionals paid in whole or in part with Title I-A funds in a targeted assistance program have met one of the following qualifications:

• completed at least two years of higher education (at least 48 semester hours or the equivalent);

• obtained an associate’s degree or higher; or

• passed the HELP or ParaPro assessment AND skills on the Paraprofessional Standards Checklist have been observed and verified and have a high school diploma or its equivalent

LYSD maintains accurate documentation of status of teachers; and submits data in a timely fashion to the department on the status of teachers, and that low-income and minority students are not taught at higher rates than other students by ineffective, out-of-field or inexperienced teachers. This is completed through the certified staff accounting report which is submitted to the state annually.

The district will notify annually The district has notified any school designated of the CSI 5%, CSI Grad Rate, or CSI-TSI designation. If the school is CSI-TSI, the district will have notified the school of which subgroup(s) of students is underperforming.

☐ The district will develop and implement a comprehensive support and improvement plan for each CSI designated school to improve student outcomes, that:

☐ is developed in partnership with stakeholders (including principals and other school leaders, teachers, and parents);

☐ is informed by all indicators that led to designation;

☐ includes evidence-based interventions;

☐ is based on a school-level needs assessment;

☐ identifies resource inequities to be addressed through plan implementation; and

☐ is approved by the school, district, and state.

The district will notify annually any school designated of the designation and which subgroup(s) of students is underperforming.

☐ The district has developed and implemented a targeted support and improvement plan for each TSI and ATSI designated school to improve student outcomes, that:

☐ is developed in partnership with stakeholders (including principals and other school leaders, teachers, and parents);

☐ is informed by all indicators that led to designation;

☐ includes evidence-based interventions;

☐ is based on a school-level needs assessment; and

☐ is approved and monitored for implementation by the district.

Notification is completed via website banner notices annually and plans are published on the School Improvement website page.

The LYSD School Improvement Liaison will work with the district School Improvement Coach to support the sites in developing, implementing, and evaluating an appropriate plan and budget with community input. These plans will be reviewed and approved by the Liaison and the Federal Programs Director before submission to the state.

The School Improvement Coach will provide yearlong plan oversight, support, and evaluation through individual site meetings and School Improvement workshops.

LYSD follows board policy (BP 3310, BP 3311, BP 3315, and BP BP 3312) as written in the links provided. LYSD completes an annual audit process that supports this policy to ensure the following:

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