ANNUAL TITLE I MEETING Thomasville High School August

ANNUAL TITLE I MEETING Thomasville High School August 18, 2015; 6: 00 pm

What Is Title I? (In short) Title I, Part A is a federally funded program under the Elementary & Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965.

Georgia’s ESEA Flexibility Waiver • Georgia’s ESEA Flexibility Waiver allows Georgia to develop and refine the next generation of accountability known as the College and Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI) which will serve as a companion statewide communication and accountability tool for school improvement. • All state assessments along with other indicators of success will be used to calculate every school’s CCRPI overall score. • Under this new accountability system, Georgia identifies Title I Reward, Priority, and Focus Schools as prescribed by US ED using data from state assessments. Alert Schools, unique to Georgia, are also identified based on graduation rate alerts for high schools or subgroup and subject alerts for middle and elementary schools.

GREAT NEWS!! Thomasville City Schools have NO Needs Improvement Schools!!! All Elementary Schools were Title I Reward Schools in 2014 -2015

FOUR SCHOOLS IN TCS ARE TITLE I SCHOOLWIDE PROGRAMS

Title I’s Purpose To ensure that ALL children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.

How Did Thomasville High Perform in 2014? CCRPI – College and Career Ready Performance Indicator • CCRPI Score = 70. 4 • Total Achievement Points Earned = 42. 2 • Progress Points = 16. 3 • Achievement Gap Points = 6. 3 2015 CCRPI will be released in the Fall of 2015

Funding, How Is It Determined? • Title I funding is calculated on a system’s/school’s poverty level. • Schools are ranked by poverty levels • Schools receive allocations based on their ranking within the system’s attendance area

Requirements • Schools must have a poverty level of 40% to be eligible • Teachers and paraprofessionals must be highly qualified as defined in the statute and regulations. • Teachers may not teach subjects for which they are not qualified. • Schools must use programs and materials that have been proven to provide achievement results for similar populations. • Parents must be involved in the decision-making process of the school • Parents Right To Know

Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) has strengthened and expanded the requirements for involving all parents of Title I students in the decision making process as it relates to student achievement.

These requirements assist with ensuring parent consultation, participation, involvement, and information sharing within the Title I program by explicitly requiring the local educational agency (LEA) and schools to develop a written parental involvement policy/plan. The policy/plan defines the coordination, technical assistance, and other support necessary to assist participating schools in planning and implementing effective parental involvement activities, trainings, and workshops to improve academic achievement and school performance.

The LEA, school, parents, and community stakeholders must jointly develop and agree upon the policy/plan that shall describe the means for carrying out the Title l Part, A requirements. The policy/plan must then be distributed to parents of participating children and made available to the local community. School systems must set aside 1% of their Title I allocation for parent involvement

THS Parent Involvement Policy Mr. Todd Mobley, Principal THS Parent Involvement Policy Where can parents access a copy? What role do parents play on the development of the PIP? What is in the PIP and what does it mean to me as a parent? THS School-Parent Compact Where can parents access a copy? What role do parents play on the development of the SPC? What is in the SPC and what does it mean to me as a parent?

THS SPECIFIC PARENT INVOLVEMENT Mr. Mobley, Principal • How does THS spend Parent Involvement Money? • How can parents provide input to the budgeting of these funds?

SCHOOLWIDE PROGRAMS A schoolwide program is a comprehensive reform strategy designed to upgrade the entire educational program in a Title I school; its primary goal is to ensure that all students, particularly those who are low-achieving, demonstrate proficient and advanced levels of achievement on state academic achievement standards. Four Thomasville City Schools are SWP!

Assessment of SWP • Conduct a comprehensive needs assessment; • Identify and commit to specific goals and strategies that address those needs; • Create a comprehensive plan; and • Conduct an annual review of the effectiveness of the schoolwide program and revise the plan annually or as necessary. • Formative (Benchmarks) and Summative (CRCT) data is reviewed to determine effectiveness of instruction and the SWP

WE NEED PARENTS!! • Parents have the right to be involved in their child’s school • There are many ways to become involved: v Ask your principal to join the school improvement team; parent involvement committee; attend parent workshops; respond to school and system surveys honestly; utilize the school’s parent resource rooms; ask questions about your child’s academic growth often; plus many more! • Parents have the right for the school to respond to any such suggestions from parents as soon as practicably possible.

Contact Information: Bill Settle Assistant Superintendent of Federal Programs 229 -225 -2600, ext. 118 settleb@tcitys. org www. tcitys. org Contact Information: Julia Bailey Title I Specialist 229 -225 -2600, ext. 140 baileyj@tcitys. org www. tcitys. org