Family Involvement Policy

Core Values

Education is a partnership between school, home, and community that depends on effective and responsive communication.

Decision-making improves when stakeholders share relevant data and engage in thoughtful reflection to support academic achievement, student behavior, and regular school attendance.

Staff and parents have reciprocal responsibility for communication.

Academic Achievement

The school will engage families by:

• Communicating individualized academic concerns and celebrations by phone, email, and regular grading updates for online platforms.
• Sharing important test dates and content covered.
• Sending home tiered intervention placement and progress every 5 weeks if applicable.
• Sharing strategies for home support through family literacy and math nights.
• Offering parent conferences.
• Making initial contact with parents at the start of the year.
• Clarifying communication practices for individual classrooms.
• Families will engage by:
• Reinforcing good study habits and acknowledging academic success.
• Attending conferences, support team meetings, and IEP meetings as needed.
• Attending family nights and PTO-sponsored events as able.
• Communicating medical or academic disabilities as soon as possible.
• Requesting conferences as needed.
• Checking Schoology regularly for grading updates.
• Keeping contact info current and indicating preferred method of communication.

Student Behavior

The school will engage families by:

• Providing families with consistent feedback and notification of interventions regarding their child’s behavior via preferred communication method.
• Communicating behavioral concerns in a timely and solutions-based manner.
• Arranging conferences and Support Team meetings when necessary.
• Families will engage by:
• Encouraging positive relationships with school staff.
• Keeping contact info current and indicating preferred method of communication.
• Sharing behavioral concerns noticed at home, as well as any successful strategies and motivators.

Attendance

The school will engage families by:

• Distributing clear and concise attendance policy and procedures at the beginning of the year.
• Initiating attendance assessment after 5 absences and determining support steps through an improvement plan after 7 absences.
• Families will engage by:
• Keeping contact info current and indicating preferred method of communication.
• Communicating with the teacher and Eakin attendance email account upon each student absence.
• Participating in attendance assessments and improvement plans if/when applicable.

Parent Teacher Organization

The school will engage families by:

• Selecting two representatives from each grade level to serve on the PTO board.
• Designating teachers to attend and participate in each PTO event and meeting.
• Families will engage by:
• Supporting PTO efforts to supplement the professional work of educating and celebrating students.
• Attending and participating in PTO events and meetings.

Communication

This information is sent home at the beginning of the year in classroom communication folders and throughout the year at PTO and family events.