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EPISD Goals for Parental Engagement

Title I, Part A

Each LEA and School Shall Provide-

1. Program Information for Parents - Each LEA and school shall provide assistance to parents of participating Title I children in understanding such topics as the state's academic content and achievement standards, the assessments being used, the requirements of Title I, part A, and how to monitor their children's progress and work with educators to improve their achievement.
2. Materials and Training – Each LEA and school shall provide materials and training, such as literacy training and training on how to use technology, to help parents work with their children to improve achievement.
3. Educate Educators – Each LEA and school shall educate teachers, pupil services personnel, principals and other staff, with the assistance of parents, in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners, implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between parents and the school.
4. Preschool Coordination – Each LEA and school shall, “to the extent feasible and appropriate,” coordinate and integrate parental involvement programs with Head Start, Even Start, and other preschool programs, and conduct other activities, such as parent resource centers, that encourage and support parents in more fully participating in the education of their children.
5. Understandable Communication – Each LEA and school shall ensure that information related to school and parent programs, meetings and other activities is sent to the parents of participating children in a format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand.
6. Other Required Activities – Each LEA and school shall provide such other reasonable support for parental involvement activities as parents may request.

Each LEA and School May Provide -

1. Input on Professional Development – Each LEA and school may involve parents in the development of training for teachers, principals and other educators to improve the effectiveness of such training.
2. Literacy Training – Each LEA and school may provide necessary literacy training for parents with Title I, Part A funds if the LEA has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding.
3. Parents’ Expenses – Each LEA and school may pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions.
4. Parents Reaching Out to Parents – Each LEA and school may train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents.
5. Convenient School Meetings – Each LEA and school may arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conduct in-home conferences between parents who are unable to attend the school meetings and the teachers and other educators who work with their children.
6. Model Approaches – Each LEA and school may adopt and implement model approaches to improving parental involvement.
7. District wide Parent Council – Each LEA may establish a district wide parent advisory council to provide advice on all matters related to parental involvement in funded programs.
8. Community Involvement – Each LEA and school may develop appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses in parent involvement activities.

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