I, Renatta Espinoza , do hereby certify that all facts, figures, and representations made in this application are true, correct, and consistent with the statement of assurances for these waivers. Furthermore, all applicable statutes, regulations, and procedures; administrative and programmatic requirements; and procedures for fiscal control and maintenance of records will be implemented to ensure proper accountability for the expenditure of funds on this project. All records necessary to substantiate these requirements will be available for review by appropriate state and federal staff. I further certify that all expenditures will be obligated on or after the effective date and prior to the termination date of the project. Disbursements will be reported only as appropriate to this project, and will not be used for matching funds on this or any special project, where prohibited.
Signature of Principal or Designee | Date Signed |
Response: Through a community of teachers, parents, administrators,students and stakeholders, Academy for Positive Learning is committed to promote cooperative education with diverse students to inspire lifelong learners. |
Response: Meeting times are scheduled at 5:30 pm in order to accommodate our working parents. To advertise this meeting we sent a letter home with the registration packet, a letter home at the beginning of the school year and several emails to remind the parents. A printed letter as well as an electronic email was sent to all parents in English, Spanish and Creole. We also involve our Creole parents with an assistance of a parent who translates. Academy for Positive Learning wants parents involvement so we require parents to participate in the school at least 40 hours annually. We provide parents a list of service needs they can volunteer for and they provide us with special skill that they can provide to our school. We have started a parent teacher student committee this committee's goal will be to grow parent involvement in all aspects of our school from planning fund raisers to provide needed input in the SIP, Title l and policy. |
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1 | Drowning Prevention | Drowning Prevention Program will come in to present water safety tips to students and parents. |
2 | Cyber Safety | Palm Beach County Police Department came in to meet with the parents to present Cybersafety and how to spot and handle Cyberbullying. |
3 | Multicultural Department | Palm Beach County School District Staff from the Multicultural Department will come to parent informational meeting to explain the resources available to them through that department. |
4 | Teen Outreach Program | Program that works with Middle School students and families to teach about issues regarding, team work, community involvement, health and sexuality will be provided for one semester. |
5 | Book It - Pizza Hut | Reading Program that encourages parents to read with their children at home which earns the child free pizza - will be promoted this winter. |
6 | Palm Beach Marathon/Reading Marathon | Students will participate with parents to complete 2 miles of the Palm Beach Marathon and will have to log in the same number of Reading hours as running time. |
7 | Family Science Night | Families are invited to come to the school for a special hands-on science night. Families particpate in student led hands-on experiences and students share their science projects. |
8 | Florida Youth Substance Abuse | Eddie J. Hoggins from Drug Abuse Foundation speaks to our Middle School students regarding alcohol and substance abuse drug. |
9 | Curriculum Night | Teachers discuss topics of lessons from the classroom, as well as provide Homework sheets (checklists) to aide parents in assisting their students with homework. Teachers also explain to parents the new Florida State Standards and giving them web link where the parents can access the sample test of the FSA. |
10 | Algebra I Meeting | Meet with the parents of Algebra I students to discuss and communicate important information about the course and the End of Year Course. |
11 | STEM Night | Science, Technology, Engerining, and Math. Interactive activities, experiments, and demo. This is to help the parents to understand more about the students curriculum. |
12 | Bullying Program, | PBSO Department of Community Involvement speaks to our students in the Fall to help them understand bullying and tell students that bullying is unacceptable. They teach the students ways to get seek help. |
13 | STEM after school program | STEM is offer in the afterschool program for students who qualify in the School Readiness Program with Family Center. i.e. how velcro works on different texture of surface and tested the viscosity of different types of liquids. |
14 | Reading Literacy Night | Department of Literacy K-8 in the Fall will conduct a literacy night with the parents regarding to the balance of literacy, writing, and teach strategies that parents can help their child. |
15 | Dancing through the Decades | All students are involve in this production in the Fall. Parents are invited and attend this wonderful show. |
16 | Volunteer Program with Parents | All of our parents volunteer at our school with various committees, Float Parade, Fundraising Committee, Garden Committee, Running Club Committee and so much more. We have our homeroom parents e-mail their parents on upcoming events. |
17 | Choice Program Meeting | We hold a training meeting to help parents fill out the PBC choice program document on line. |
count | Activity/Tasks | Person Responsible | Timeline | Evidence of Effectiveness |
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1 | Sent out invitation in English, Spanish and Creole | Principal | All Summer | Parent Attendance and Sign-in Sheet |
2 | Place notification on website | Principal/IT | Throughout the year | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay |
3 | Send reminder email | Principal | Throughout the year | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay |
4 | Agenda | Principal | August 10,2015 | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay |
5 | Title I power point presentation | Principal | August 10, 2015 | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay |
6 | Conduct Annual Meeting | Principal | August 10,2015 | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay |
7 | Parent School Student Compact - Review, Discuss, Revise | Principal and Parent Liasion | August 10,2015 | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay Meeting Minutes |
8 | Family Involvement Plan - Review, Discuss, Revise | Principal and Parent Liasion | September 11,2015 | Completion of Document and Sign document that parents recieved. |
9 | Title I Budget - Review, Discuss | Principal and SAC Board | October 9, 2015 | Completion of Document |
10 | Review Family Involvement Survey from previous school year | Principal and Parent Liasion | September 9, 2015 | Agenda Meeting Minutes |
11 | National School Choice Week | Principal and Staff | Jan 26-Feb 1 | Survey |
12 | Letter notifying NHQ status | Principal | Sept 18, 2015 | Survey |
13 | Letter Write to know | Principal | Sept 4,2015 | Survey |
14 | Title 1 Budget | A.P. | May 2015 | Copy of Document, purchase orders |
15 | Data Focused meetings | Principal, A.P. Teachers | Throughout the year | Agenda, Sign-in sheets. Salp, Performance Matter report |
16 | Parent Training nights | Teachers | Throughout the year | Parent Attendance and Sign-in sheet and survay |
Response: Most meetings and training will be offered in the evenings to accommodate working parents. A light meal and childcare will be provided during parent training to encourage attendance. Since all students are transported by parents, some meetings and trainings will be provided immediately after dismissal. |
count | Content and Type of Activity | Person Responsible | Anticipated Impact on Student Achievement | Timeline | Evidence of Effectiveness |
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1 | Reading Literacy & Writing Night | Reading Teachers | Providing parents with information with how to support and improve their child’s reading achievement. LAFS will be reviewed and discussed. Reading teachers will show strategies to parents in the process of writing also. | September | Sign-in sheets and Evaluations |
2 | Parent Math Night | Math Teachers | Providing parents with information with how to support and improve their child’s math achievement. MAFS will be reviewed and discussed. The math teachers will show parents strategies on how to help their child in math. | October 14, 2015 | Sign-in sheets and Evaluation |
3 | Writing Night | Writing Department | Providing parents with information with how to support and improve their child’s writing skills. Parents will be provided with a writing rubric and the scoring of the Palm Beach Performance an drafted copy. The exam will be explained to all parents. | October 21,2015 | Sign-in sheets and Evaluations |
4 | Multicultural Day Celebration | Classroom Teachers | Celebrate diversity among our school and community to teach the social studies content learned during the school year. | May 5, 2016 | Sign-In sheets and Evaluations |
5 | Monthly Newsletter | Classroom Teachers | Providing parents with monthly information on FSS and NGSSS covered and upcoming assignments due. | Monthly | Increased student academic achievement. |
6 | Parents Involved In Creating Kids Success (PICKS) | Administration | Providing tips for parents to help children with academic activities at home and increasing student success in school. | Monthly | Increased student academic achievement. |
7 | Teacher Involving Parents and Students Success (TIPS) | Classroom Teachers | Involving the parents in the academic success of their children dealing with character education. | Monthly | Increased student academic achievement. |
8 | Immigration laws | PTSO and Administration | Providing parents with information about immigration policy, law and rights. This helps provide security to students and lead to improvement among ELL students | November 13, 2015 | Sign-In sheets and Evaluation |
9 | Education on Technology and our Portal in written in different languages | Parents and Principal | Providing parents with information on their child's report and progress reports on EngradePro.com and the technology in our school. | August 15, 2015 | Sign-In Sheets and Evaluation |
10 | Volunteer Hours parents are help and are involved with school events and teacher in their classrooms | Administration, Parents and teachers | Parents understand the academic and time commitment with teaching. when involved with the teacher and classroom, parents learn how to help their student because they have seen it model in the classroom. | Thoughtout the year | Computer sign in and hours are tracked. |
11 | Garden Club | Parents, Science teachers and students | Parents are learning and teaching garden concepts to teachers and students this will definitely help students science grades. | Thoughtout the year | Sign-in Sheets |
12 | Open computer room for parents. A4pl offers parents access to our computer room which is located near the front entrance. Parents may schedule training on any of our programs. | Parents and Administration | When parents have computer skills the can help students with research projects and presentation skills | Thoughtout the year | Sign- in Sheets |
13 | Open training for our "Engrade Pro" web based program that houses students benchmarts and current grades. It is also a communication tools for parents and teachers, | Administration | Providing updated information on students progress in school, parents use this information to keep their student on academic tract. | The month of September | Sign-in Sheets |
14 | Parents must have a working email account. Teachers and Administration use this form of communication. | Administration and Teachers | Providing timely feedback to parents and teachers increase students achievement. | Thoughtout the year | Copies of emails |
15 | White board out-side at parent drop off and pick up. This board is another way we remind parents of activities | Administration | Providing another avenue of communication. | Everyday | Survey |
16 | Teacher return call policy | All Staff | Answering Parents questions | Thoughtout the year | Survey |
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count | Content and Type of Activity | Person Responsible | Anticipated Impact on Student Achievement | Timeline | Evidence of Effectiveness |
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1 | How to Build a Family Friendly School Powerpoint | ESE Coordinator | Provides one on one discussion and intervention | Thoughtout the year | Observation and parent meetings. |
2 | How to have an Effective Parent Conference | School Psychologist | Improve parent involvement | Thoughtout the year | Observation, parent and teacher meeting |
3 | Kagan Training for our Parents | AP and Teachers | improved parent involvement. | Thoughtout the year | Staff and Parents |
4 | Workshops and profession development to implement strategies to find ways to reach parents. | All teachers and existing Parents | Improved the communication with the teachers and parents learning different strategies that is place in the classroom. | November 18,2015 | Staff & Parents sign in sheets and Evaluation |
5 | Support and Training is provided regarding behavior modification. This training is after school or on professional development days, and shared with parents. | Principal, A.P. and School psychologist | Improved student achievement, attendance, behavior | October 17, 2015 | Staff sign-In sheets and Parent communication logs |
6 | Provide training on learning Spectrum of the child. | Principal and AP, and ESE coordinator. | Research shows that strong parental involvement correlates directly with student achievement. | September 18, 2015 | Staff sign-In sheets and Evaluations |
7 | District sponsored events | Principal, Teachers | Improved the communication with the teachers and parents learning different strategies that is place in the classroom. r | Thoughtout the year | Survey, sign-in sheets |
Response: Parent Liaison will coordinate parent volunteer activities and hours. Classroom teachers encourage parents to volunteer in the classrooms and on all field trips and community experiences. Academy for Positive Learning will foster an environment conducive to strong teacher/family relationships. Teachers and families get to know each other in greater depth through the intake interview process, formal and informal ongoing communication, and the school's commitment to family participation. There is often more than one sibling in a program. Parents become much more involved in classrooms. Much more bonding occurs between teachers and parents. |
Response: All written communication is provided in different languages. We have a comprehensive website that is updated regularly. All teachers provide a monthly informative newsletter which details classroom lessons and activities, volunteer opportunities, school-wide events, standards and objectives to be covered each month as well as ways to help their child(ren) be successful in school. Teachers and parents communicate daily through the use of student's agenda, e-mail and through EngradePro and a Nikki Communication folder which is brought home daily. All parents have access to updated student academic information through www.engradepro.com which is updated at a minimum weekly by teachers. During the Annual Meeting, we discussed the Title I School Wide Plan, reviewed the Family Involvement Policy/Plan that was approved the previous school year, revise it with parents input for the up coming school year; went over the School-Parent Compact and ask for input, tutorial services offered, and Parent Right to Know. |
Response: In addition to providing communication in parents' native languages, the Parent Liaison and the Principal are available to translate during parent conferences, meetings and events. The monthly newsletter is translated by a parent as part of his/her volunteer hours or by the Parent Liaison. Annual parent surveys are used to collect information and suggestions for parents. Surveys are distributed in English and Spanish. The Multicultural Department will provide testing and translation for any students who are identified as ELL and need ESE services. |
count | Activity | Description of Implementation Strategy | Person Responsible | Anticipated Impact on Student Achievement | Timeline |
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1 | Providing necessary literacy training for parents from Title I, Part A funds, if the LEA has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for that training [Section 1118(e)(7)]; and | Parents have access thought engrade to the Flordia benchmarks. | Admin and Teachers | Knowledge to students curriculum so parents can help at home. | on-going |
2 | Training parents to enhance the involvement of other parents [Section 1118(e)(9)]; | We assign homeroom parents to each class. These parents have direct contact with all parents in the classroom. | Teacher and Homeroom parent | Parents feel comfortable speaking to other parents about concerns. | on-goin |
3 | Maximizing parental involvement and participation in their children’s education by arranging school meetings at a variety of times, or conducting in-home conferences between teachers or other educators, who work directly with participating children, with parents who are unable to attend those conferences at school [Section 1118(e)(10)]; | Meetings are scheduled at various times throughout the school year (morning, afternoon, and evenings). | Principal, A.P. Classroom teachers | Improved parent involvement and participation; improved student achievement, attendance, and behavior. | on-going |
4 | Adopting and implementing model approaches to improving parental involvement [Section 1118(e)(11)]; and | Parent liaison participates in the district training to develop current activities and workshops to increase parent involvement. | Parent Liaison | Improved parent involvement | on-going |
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9/21/2015 2:14:13 PM | 9/28/2015 2:57:09 PM | The documentation uploaded shows input into the Compact. However, we need to have the Agenda, Sign In Sheets, and Minutes from the meeting where parents provided input into the development of the school's Parent Involvement Plan (PIP). Please combine all items into one PDF document to be uploaded. |
10/20/2015 2:57:13 PM | We need to have the Agenda, Sign In Sheets, and Minutes from the meeting where parents provided input into the development of the school's Parent Involvement Plan (PIP). The minutes were uploaded, but not the other items. Please combine all items into one PDF document to be uploaded. Edit |
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9/21/2015 2:12:24 PM | 9/21/2015 2:16:00 PM | The Agenda for the Annual meeting was uploaded. However, we need to have the Agenda, Sign In Sheets, and Minutes from the meeting where parents provided input into the development of the Parent-School Compact. Please combine all items into one PDF document to be uploaded. Upload #1 had a Compact that had parent input that was returned to the school. If you have a few of these and can summarize the response (ex: 5 Compacts were returned with comments that did not require revisions to the Compact), this would be sufficient for this section. |
10/20/2015 2:56:18 PM | Minutes from the Aug meeting were uploaded. However, we need to have the Agenda, Sign In Sheets, and Minutes from the meeting included in the upload. Please combine all items into one PDF document to be uploaded. |
count | Content and Type of Activity | Number of Activities | Number of Participants | Anticipated Impact on Student Achievement |
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1 | Teen Outreach program from Children's services Council PBC | 12 | 50 | Increase Achievement |
2 | Cyber Safety | 1 | 50 | Improved student achievement, and safety |
3 | Multicultural Department | 5 | 5 | Improve parents understanding of resources available i the community. Increase Achievement |
4 | Palm Beach Marathon/Reading | 12 | 24 | Students will participate with Parents to complete 2 miles of the Palm Ceach Marathon. |
5 | Family Science Night | 1 | 63 | Families are invited to come to the school for a special hands-on science night. Increase achievement |
6 | Florida Youth Substance Abuse | 1 | 50 | Eddie J. Hoggins from Drug Abuse Foundation speaks to our Middle School students. |
7 | Curriculum Night | 2 | 73 | Teachers discuss topics of lessons and new benchmarks. Increase achievement |
8 | STEM Night | 1 | 70 | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math parents and students participate in Interactive activities. |
9 | Bullying Program | 1 | 44 | PBSO Department of Community Involvement speaks to our students to understand bullying issues. Increase Achievement |
10 | Reading Literacy Night | 1 | 45 | Department of Literacy K-8 in the Fall will conduct a literacy night with the parents. Increase involvment |
11 | Broadway production | 2 | 130 | Students were involved in the Fall Production, Parents are invited and attend this show. Increase Achievement |
12 | Science Fair Project | 1 | 120 | Students displayed their science fair project and parents were invited. |
13 | Volunteer Program with Parents | 7 | 50 | Parents come to school and help teachers and staff. Increase Achievement. |
14 | National Charter School | 1 | 25 | Provide students with education gear towards them. |
15 | Reading plus | 134 | 134 | Web base program that is done at home |
count | Content and Type of Activity | Number of Activities | Number of Participants | Anticipated Impact on Student Achievement |
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1 | Kagan Cooperative Learning | 1 | 7 | Increase Achievement |
2 | Parent Link | 1 | 150 | Increase Achievement and give parent one location to get district information |
3 | Workshops and profession development to implement strategies to find ways to reach parents | 15 | 14 | Increase student's achievement at home |
4 | Provide support and training regarding behavior modification | 15 | 8 | Increase student's behavior and achievement. |
5 | Workshops on learning spectrum of the child | 2 | 10 | Increase Student's achievement |
6 | Meeting and observations on teaching strategies that involve parents and students | 16 | 25 | Increase Student's achievement |
7 | Meetings that include parents regarding school activities | 4 | 25 | Increase Student's achievement |
8 | teacher learn communication skills and teaching skills to involved parents | 1 | 14 | Increase Student's achievement |
count | Barrier (Including the Specific Subgroup) | Steps the School will Take to Overcome |
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1 | Parent Trainings | We are having parent trainings at different times during the day in the morning, afternoon, and evening |
2 | Communication | We send home a paper copy of the notification in English, Spanish and Creole. We also email the parents the notification, and we call the Spanish parents and had our Creole parent call parents to let them know . |
3 | EngradePro data base for grades and e-mailing teacher. | We are having parent training in all languages, English, Spanish and Creole. This will cover all languages where parents are able to understand the system. |
4 | Parents attendance to meetings | We provide dates and information in several languages. |
5 | Language Barriers | We provide dates and information in several languages. |
6 | Parents Education Level | We advise the parent that they are still a big part of their students education and can any involvement is beneficial |
7 | Parent Transportation | Parents can come to the school anytime of the day and get help from our staff. |
8 | Parent work schedule | Parents work long hours and don't want to meeting at the school |
9 | Parent does not see benefit. | Parents are educated on the benefits of participation. |
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