Title 1 Annual Meeting 2023-2024

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2. What is a Title 1 School?
3. Title 1 Budget
4. Title 1 Requirements/Professional Qualifications/Schoolwide Program
5. School Assessments
6. District and School Parent Engagement Policy
7. School-Family Compacts
8. Family Engagement Opportunities
9. Contact us!

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Welcome to the RPS Title 1 Annual Meeting!

As a Title 1 Distinguished School, the goal is to provide instructional services and activities which support students in meeting the state's challenging performance standards.

Title 1 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides financial assistance to state and local education agencies to meet the needs of children based on the number of free and reduced lunch counts.

Title 1 is a school wide program with a purpose to improve the entire educational program at RPS. This should result in improving the academic achievement of all students, particularly the lowest achieving students. By law, the school system will ensure that strong strategies are in place to build capacity in parents as partners, and to support parents in attaining high student achievement in class, and at home.

School wide Goals

Our school wide program goals are to increase the reading and math benchmark scores at or above grade level by 3% between fall and spring testing.

We will work to achieve this goal by providing support to children such as a reading and math interventionist, computer and technology software to support reading and math instruction, and monitoring student progress throughout the year.

As a District in conjunction with federal guidelines, a small percentage of our Title 1 money is allocated to have Family Engagement Coordinators at the District Level. Title 1 funding also provides:

• smaller classes or special instructional spaces
• additional teachers and paraprofessionals
• opportunities for professional development for school staff
• a variety of supplementary teaching methods
• an individualized program for students
• additional teaching materials which supplement their regular instruction
• technology
• parent and family engagement in children's' education

At RPS, we use our Title 1 funds to provide:

• educational interventionist for students
• academic coach for teachers
• parent involvement coordinator and parent resource room for parents

As a Title 1 school, we must meet federal regulations related to teacher qualifications as defined by ESEA. These regulations allow you to learn more about your child's teachers training and credentials. All teachers at RPS are highly qualified in the content area they are teaching. At any time, you may ask:

• whether the teacher met state qualifications and certification requirements for the grade level and subject being taught.
• whether the teacher received and emergency or conditional certificate through which state qualifications were waived
• what undergraduate or graduate degrees the teacher holds
• you may also ask whether your child received help form a paraprofessional, and information about their qualifications

At Ringgold Primary, our students are assessed several times a year to ensure they are learning the state adopted standards from the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Results from the various assessments are used to identify those students who are not mastering the standards and to provide teachers with feedback about instruction. As a whole, the data gathered from these tests help our school identify our strengths and our weaknesses so that we can establish priorities and goals in planning our educational programs.

Currently, RPS administers the following assessments:

GKIDs for Kindergarten

MAPs (Reading & Math) for K-5

You can find more information at www.georgiastandards.org or our website under the Title 1, Parent Resources, Student Assessments. Link is HERE

Policies:

School Parent and Family Engagement Policy

-SPANISH VERSION

District Parent and Family Engagement Policy-

SPANISH VERSION

Compacts:

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

*Compacts are in process of being revised for the current school year. You can view the process to prepare them HERE*

Parental involvement means that participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities, ensuring that:

• parents playing a integral role in assisting their child's learning
• parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child's education
• parents are full partners in their child's education and are included in decision making to assist in the education of their child
• policies are jointly developed with parent's
• the school jointly develops a Family-School Compact each year that outlines how parents, teachers, and students will share the responsibility for student academic achievement

Getting involved is easy!

You can volunteer in the Parent Resource Room anytime during school hours or sign up to help at a special school event. You can also plan to attend the Title 1 meetings and parent workshops held by the Parent Involvement Coordinator. This will keep you informed and engaged in your child's education. Stay connected to Class Dojo for invites and sign ups!

You can find out more by contacting the Parent Involvement Coordinator, Tracy Wilson, at twilson.rps@catoosa.k12.ga.us or visit the Parent Resource Room!

Parents are always welcome to contact their child's teacher or administrators through the school website (www.rps.catoosa.k12.ga.us), email, written notes, and Class Dojo.

Parents should bring Title 1 complaints to Gina Hayes, CCPS Title 1 Coordinator at 706-965-2297 or ghayes@catoosa.k12.ga.us

School complaints can be brought to Mrs. Hood, RPS Principal.

Whitney Hood, Principal: whood@catoosa.k12.ga.us

Michele Cribb, Vice Principal: mcribb@catoosa.k12.ga.us

Amy Wright, Academic Coach: awright.rps@catoosa.k12.ga.us

Ringgold Primary School

340 Evitt Lane, Ringgold, GA 30736

PH: 706-937-5437

I appreciate your participation and support at RPS!!

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Tracy Wilson, Parent Involvement Coordinator

twilson.rps@catoosa.k12.ga.us