Title I

Title I Program

Cashton Elementary operates a Schoolwide Title I program to support literacy and math achievement for all students.  The program currently supports three licensed Reading teachers for the elementary school and two instructional aides.

Cashton Elementary Schoolwide Plan

Cashton Elementary School Parent Involvement Policy

Cashton Elementary School recognizes that parents play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning; therefore, the School is committed to developing a viable and meaningful relationship between the school, parents, and the community. Parents are full partners in their child’s education and will be encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at school. The School will engage in the following activities:

1. Provide assistance to parents of children served by the school, as appropriate, in understanding topics such as the following:
   1. The State’s academic content standards,
   2. The State student academic achievement standards,
   3. The State and local academic assessments,
   4. The requirements of Title I, Part A,
   5. How to monitor their child’s progress, and
   6. How to work with educators.
2. Provide information related to the school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities, to the parents of participating children in a format, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand.
3. Plan and operate Title 1 programs, activities, and procedures with meaningful consultation with parents of participating children.
4. Involve parents in an organized, ongoing, and timely way, in planning, reviewing, and evaluating Title 1 Programs.
5. Create and/or review the Parent Involvement Policy and make any adjustments necessary as a result of parent input.
6. Make available the Parent Involvement Policy to parents each year.
7. Inform parents of this policy, their rights under Title 1, and ways they can be more involved.
8. Conduct surveys asking for parent input.
9. Consider and respond to parent recommendations.
10. Hold an annual meeting for Title 1 parents in order to receive parent input about strengths and weaknesses of the program.
11. Complete a school-parent compact that outlines how students, parents, and staff will share responsibility for improved student achievement.
12. Provide encouragement to parents to attend conferences during the established parent/teacher conference dates.
13. Encourage the child’s parent/guardian to provide home activities, which will help the child in his/her educational program.
14. Provide parents with an individual student report about their child’s performance on the State assessment tests.
15. Provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified according to state definitions.
16. Provide parents with an overview of grade-level curriculum and/or expectations.