Title I Family-School Compact

Vision

Every student will graduate on time with the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary to create a thriving future for themselves and their community.

Mission

We are committed to fostering Learning and Achievement for All by delivering academic excellence that empowers every student to reach their full potential. Through a Positive Climate and Culture, we cultivate a welcoming, safe, and supportive environment where teaching and learning thrive. In partnership with families and the community, we build meaningful relationships that strengthen trust and collaboration, ensuring the success of every student on their educational journey.

Student Agreement

• come to school ready to learn. 
• do my best. 
• ask questions. 
• be a good listener and observer. 
• follow Panther PAWS Behavior.

Family/Parent Agreement

• provide good nutrition for our children. 
• spend quality time together.
• teach good habits and manners.
• establish rules and routines at home.
• set and maintain appropriate bedtimes.
• read to our children and help with homework. 
• ask how our child’s day went. 
• be partners with teachers and staff.
• become involved at Bel Air. 

Teachers/Staff Agreement

• communicate frequently with parents. 
• invite parents to visit Bel Air and participate in conferences, programs and committees. 
• attend quality professional development.
• provide rigorous, standards-based instruction that focuses on the improvement of students.
• assess each student’s learning and communicate findings to parents.
• provide high quality instructional materials and use them effectively

Title I Parent and Family Engagement School Policy

Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) Title I program is established to improve student achievement so that every student will graduate on time with the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary to create a thriving future for themselves and their community.

Bel Air Elementary School will ensure effective involvement of families and will support a partnership among the school, parents, guardians, and community to improve student achievement in the following ways:

School Family Engagement Policy

· Review the Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy which is jointly developed and distributed to parents.

· Provide all parents with information about the schools’ participation in Title I at the Annual Meeting and inform parents of their right to be involved.

· Invite and encourage all parents to attend all Title I Family meetings and events. Inform parents that the school may provide support for them to attend meetings.

· Involve family participation in the planning, review, and improvement of the schools’ Title I Schoolwide/Continuous Improvement Plan

· Provide parents with information about the Title I program, the curriculum, academic assessments, and students’ expected proficiency levels.

· Notify the PWCS Title I Office if the Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children.

Shared Responsibilities for High Student Achievement

· Invite parents to volunteer, observe, and/or participate in their child’s class(es) and school.

· Include a schedule for parent-teacher conferences and progress reports.

· Invite parents to participate in events related to academics.

Building Capacity for Engagement

· Assist parents to understand the state’s academic content, achievement standards, and assessments.

· Communicate with families on a regular basis regarding their child’s progress in school; including school performance information and student assessment results.

· Provide materials and training to help parents support their children’s academic progress.

· Develop, in consultation with families, a Family-School Compact, stating how the school and families will share the responsibility for high student performance. Review the Family-School Compact annually with families and school staff.

· Educate teachers, pupil services personnel, principals, and other staff, with the assistance of parents, in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and how to communicate and work with parents as equal partners.

· Coordinate and integrate parent and family engagement programs and activities with other federal and state programs supporting preschool, multilingual students, and students with disabilities.

· Ensure that information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to parents in a format that is practicable and in a language that parents can understand.

· Distribute annual parent surveys encouraging parents to respond to additional support needed to participate in parent and family engagement.

· Provide opportunities to participate in decision making at Parent Advisory Council meetings, Parent Teacher Organization meetings, and meetings related to Title I program planning.

Accessibility

· Provide opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency and parents with disabilities in a format that is practicable and in a language that parents can understand.

Important Dates