Parent Involvement Plan

WPS communicates information to parents:
 

• WPS website

• What's Up WPS district newsletter

• Automated phone calls and emails

• WPS calendar

• Progress reports and workshops

• Board community events

Information often shared includes:
 

• Reading, writing and math standards and schools’ performance on Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). 

• Title I requirements through the use of school-level Parent Involvement Plans and School-Parent Compacts.

• In languages that parents can understand through translation and interpreting services provided by Learning Services.

WPS provides opportunities for parents to participate in their child’s education by:

• Participating in school improvement teams, parent involvement committees, academic tutoring, curriculum support initiatives, and career awareness activities.

• Joining organized stakeholder groups such as Parent/Teacher Organizations (PTO), Wolf Westminster HS Parent Advisory Committee (Wolf PAC), area advisory councils, Parent Academy for Student Success (PASS) Building Accountability Advisory Committees and District Accountability Advisory Committee.

• Becoming a classroom helper and providing clerical/front office/library/cafeteria support at their child’s school.

• For more information, please call your child’s school!

WPS values parent input in decision-making and their advocacy for their child’s education through:

• Annual school-level meetings held with parent representatives to review, provide feedback, evaluate, and make revisions to district and school-level parent involvement plans.

• Regularly scheduled Board of Education meetings monthly where citizens are encouraged to offer their input and suggestions.

• Annual meetings for parents to review the Parent and Family Involvement Policy.

WPS promotes positive parenting and student learning through:

• Community liaisons in schools to support communication in parent/teacher or family matters.

• Making student academic expectations and standards-based curriculum available through Empower.

  • Empower strengthens parents’ ability to monitor and assist their child with progress monitoring and learning targets completion.

  • Parents can register to use Empower at their home schools.

The WPS Title IX, Part A program maintains district and community partnerships to provide homeless families and unaccompanied youth with educational and social support advocacy. For more details or information, please visit the Title IX, Part A webpage online here or contact:

Jamie Skaronea
Title IX Coordinator
720-542-5379