DR.TRACY DYER
CHELSEA BROWN
TUSSING AND PICKERINGTON ELEMENTARY
Tussing Elementary and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (participating children) agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and how the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.
This school-parent compact is in effect during the 2023-2024 school year.
School Responsibilities
We, as a school, Tussing Elementary will support our student's learning in the following ways:
As a school, we will:
1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows:
Provide a high-quality, effective learning environment that is safe, and that enables the student to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards.
Provide ongoing two-way communication between teachers and parents through parent-teacher-student conferences and frequent reports to parents.
Provide reasonable access to administrators through scheduled appointments.
Provide a mutually respectful relationship between all parties (students, parents, teachers, and volunteers).
2. Hold parent-teacher conferences (at least annually in elementary schools) during which this compact will be discussed regarding the individual child’s achievement.
Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on the following dates:
October 3, 2023 - Evening
October 12, 2023 - K-6 Evening Conferences
October 16, 2023 - K-8 - All Day Conferences - No School
October 17, 2023 - All Day Conferences for Kindergarten Only - No School for Kindergarten only)
February 15, 2024 - K-12 Evening Conferences
February 20, 2024 - K-12 Evening Conferences
Information about scheduling conferences will be sent home before the October and February conference dates.
3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress. Specifically, the school will provide reports as follows:
Parents will receive iReady reports three times a year after each screener.
Achievement records will be available in your Infinite Campus Parent Portal four times a year at the end of each nine-week period.
Parents will receive ODE state testing reports as soon as they are available.
4. Provide parents with reasonable access to staff. Specifically, staff will be available for consultation with parents as follows:
Parents can reach staff members by calling the school and leaving a message or email.
Staff members will respond to messages and emails within 24 hours.
Parents can also contact and communicate with staff members using apps such as SeeSaw or TalkingPoints.
Parent Responsibilities
We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:
As a parent, I will:
Support my child’s learning by ensuring that they have proper rest and nutrition and attend school on time and regularly. Students are tardy after 9:15 a.m.
Ensure my child is picked up by 4:15 p.m. each day if they do not ride the bus. Repeated failures to do so could result in contact with Children’s Protective Services and/or law enforcement.
Support my child’s learning by reading with them.
Help set a positive tone for learning with my child.
Strive to use my time positively with my child (“quality” one one-on-one time).
Participate in decisions relating to my child's education through a mutually respectful relationship with school staff.
Provide a mutually respectful relationship between all parties (students, parents, teachers, and volunteers).
Provide time for homework completion (“perfect practice”).
Support my child’s class/school (i.e. collaborating with teachers to help in class/school, volunteering in my child’s classroom/school, communicating with my child’s teachers, attending school events when possible, etc.).
Student Responsibilities
We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the state’s high standards.
As a student, I will:
Show respect and cooperate with all adults at the school.
Come to class on time and prepare to work. This includes fully charged devices.
Complete all assignments to the best of my ability.
Respect the right of others to learn without disruption.
Show respect for people and property.
Be an active member of "Team Tussing".
Additional Required School Responsibilities
Tussing Elementary will:
1. 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 right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs. The school will convene the meeting at a convenient time for parents.
2. Provide each parent an individual student report about their child's performance on the state assessment in at least math, language arts, and reading.
3. 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).
Every Student Succeeds Act
Tussing Elementary School
Email: matt_dansby@plsd.us
Website: https://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/tussing-elementary/
Location: 7117 Tussing Road, Reynoldsburg, OH, USA
Phone: 614.834.2600
Facebook: facebook.com/TussingElementary
Twitter: @TussingPLSD