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Tracy Layman - President
Beverly Murrell - Vice-President



Sevierville Intermediate School Parental Involvement Policy
Sevierville Intermediate School encourages the involvemement of parents, both as individuals and as groups, to act as advisors and resource people in the following ways:
  • To share specific talents that complement and extend the instructional services of the classroom teacher;
  • To serve as advisors on curriculum development projects;
  • To express ideas and concerns by responding to surveys and other information-gathering devices;
  • To be actively involved in parent-teacher groups; and
  • To serve on citizens' advisory committees.

Title 1 Involvement
 Parent input into the planning, design and implementation of the Title 1 Program:
  • Meaningful consultation of parents of participating children in the planning, design and implementation of the Title 1 program;
  • Organized, systematic, ongoing informed and timely consultation in relation to decisions about the program; and
  • The involvement of parent through activities and procedures which are of sufficient size, scope and quality to give reasonable promise if substantial progress toward achieving the required goals. To ensure that parents of participating children have an adequate opportunity to participate in the planning, designing, and implementing of the Title 1 Program.
The School will:
  • Convene an annual meeting, to which all parents of participating children must be invited, to explain the programs, activities and curriculum available under Title 1;
  • Provide parents of participating children with reports and explanations of their child's progress as demonstrated in academic assessments;
  • To the extent practical, conduct a parent/teacher conference with the parents of each participating child to discuss the child's progress, placement, and training in the methods the parents can use to complement the child's instruction;
  • Make educational personnel under the Title 1 Program, including student Services personnel, readily accessible to parents;
  • Permit parents of participating children to observe Title 1 Program activities;
  • Provide opportunities for regular meetings with parents to formulate Parental input into the program;
  • Provide parents of participating children with a copy of the parental Involvement policy as well as timely information about the program;
  • Make parents more aware of parental involvement requirements and other relevant provisions of the problem;
  • Provide reasonable support for parental involvement as parents may request;
  • Coordinate, to the extent possible, parent involvement activities and strategies under other programs;
  • Develop a school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and the parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve high standards;
  • Provide information, to the extent practicable, on programs and activities in a language and form that parents understand; and
  • Annually assess, through consultation with parents, the effectiveness of Title 1 programs and determine what action needs to be taken, if any, to increase parental participation.



Sevier County School System
PARENT RESOURCES
 Discovery Channel's Parent Guide : This site includes product reviews including software and educational advice to study tools and homeschooling resurces.
For Parents: No Child Left Behind : Designed just for parents, contains Reading Tips, Homework Tips, some of the Department of Education's most popular brochures, and more. Helping Your Child Series : The Helping Your Child series are publications for parents to help their children develop new skills and knowledge. Topics include helping to teach kids reading, writing, library skills, responsible behavior, academic subjects, and more.
Many parents are very busy with jobs and other responsibilities. Click here to read some suggestions on how you can be involved in your child's education. Click here for some parental guidelines and suggestions on how you can help your child with homework.
Do you ever wonder what your child is doing at school but it seems that all that he or she will tell you is "Fine" or "OK?" Click here to read some fun and creative suggestions of ways to get your child to talk to you about what is happening in the classroom. Your child's teacher ALWAYS seem to tell you how important it is to read with your child. This fascinating article, called "Why can't I skip my 20 minutes of Reading Tonight?" explains why reading is so critical to a child's academic growth.
Click here to read an article called The ABC's of Parenting. It is an alphabetized list of parenting suggestions. Have you wondered which books you should get for your child? Click here for some lists of books for you and your child to read.
Is your child extremely bright? Click here to find suggestions, links and articles about how to work effectively with a gifted child. Parents are the backbone upon whom children and teachers depend for growth in learning. Click here to read an article in tribute to parents.
Click here to read a letter where the teacher gives a child back to his parents at the end of the school year. Raising a child does not come with an instruction manual. As parents we often wish there were such a manual. Click here to connect to a search engine called Kinderstart.com for resources such as pregnancy, adoption, child development, family dynamics, nutrition, learning activities and much, much more.



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