Black Hawk Elementary will provide materials and training (ex: literacy training, helping parents work with their children, reading strategies, math strategies, etc.) to help parents work with their children. Black Hawk Elementary will also provide training and support to increase parent involvement through the following targeted areas: volunteer training and training parents to assist in educating school staff in how to best communicate with and work with parents to build ties between home and school. Black Hawk Elementary will coordinate and integrate parent involvement activities such as Head Start, Migrant Education, Homeless Education, and Reading Recovery. Black Hawk will also have a parent coordinator to assist with providing information regarding available school and community resources including, but not limited to, Character Counts, Kiwanis, and Rapid City Partnership. Black Hawk Elementary will provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency or with disabilities, including providing information and school profiles in language and format parents will understand. Black Hawk Elementary will provide reasonable support for parent involvement activities which could include daycare and transportation. OPTIONAL POLICY ACTIVITIES May involve parents in the development of training for teachers, principals, and other educators to improve the effectiveness of trainings. May provide necessary literacy training from funds received under this part if the local education agency has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for such training. May pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with local parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions. May train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents. May arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conduct in-home conferences between teachers or other educators, who work directly with participating children, with parents who are unable to attend such conferences at school, in order to maximize parental involvement and participation. May adopt and implement model approaches to improve parental involvement.
Black Hawk Elementary will provide materials and training (ex: literacy training, helping parents work with their children, reading strategies, math strategies, etc.) to help parents work with their children. Black Hawk Elementary will also provide training and support to increase parent involvement through the following targeted areas: volunteer training and training parents to assist in educating school staff in how to best communicate with and work with parents to build ties between home and school. Black Hawk Elementary will coordinate and integrate parent involvement activities such as Head Start, Migrant Education, Homeless Education, and Reading Recovery. Black Hawk will also have a parent coordinator to assist with providing information regarding available school and community resources including, but not limited to, Character Counts, Kiwanis, and Rapid City Partnership. Black Hawk Elementary will provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency or with disabilities, including providing information and school profiles in language and format parents will understand. Black Hawk Elementary will provide reasonable support for parent involvement activities which could include daycare and transportation. OPTIONAL POLICY ACTIVITIES May involve parents in the development of training for teachers, principals, and other educators to improve the effectiveness of trainings. May provide necessary literacy training from funds received under this part if the local education agency has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for such training. May pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with local parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions. May train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents. May arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conduct in-home conferences between teachers or other educators, who work directly with participating children, with parents who are unable to attend such conferences at school, in order to maximize parental involvement and participation. May adopt and implement model approaches to improve parental involvement.
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