Hilltop Elementary
Parental Involvement Policy
NOTE: In support of strengthening student academic achievement, each school that receives
Title I, Part A funds must develop jointly with, agree on with, and distribute to, parents of
participating children a written parental involvement policy that contains information required
by section 1118 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (parental involvement
policy).
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PART I. GENERAL EXPECTATIONS
Hilltop Elementary agrees to implement the following statutory requirements:
● Consistent with section 1118, the school will work to ensure that the required school level
parental involvement policies meet the requirements of section 1118 of the ESEA, and
each include, as a component, a school-parent compact consistent with section 1118(d) of
the ESEA. The school will notify parents of the policy in an understandable and uniform
format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand. The policy
will be made available to the local community and updated periodically to meet the
changing needs of parents and the school.
● In carrying out the Title I, Part A, parental involvement requirements, to the extent
practicable, the school will provide full opportunities for the participation of parents with
limited English proficiency, parents with disabilities, and parents of migratory children,
including providing information and school reports required under section 1111 of the
ESEA in an understandable and uniform format and including alternative formats upon
request and, to the extent practicable, in language parents understand.
● If the school-wide program plan for Title I, Part A, developed under section 1114(b) of
the ESEA, is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children, the school will
submit any parent comments with the plan when the school submits the plan to the local
educational agency (Azle ISD).
● The school will involve the parents of children served in Title I, Part A schools in
decisions about how the 1 percent of Title I, Part A funds reserved for parental
involvement is spent, and will ensure that not less than 95 percent of the 1 percent
reserved goes directly to the schools.
● The school will build its own and the parent’s capacity for strong parental involvement,
in order to ensure effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership among
the school, parents, and the community to improve student academic achievement.
● The school will provide other reasonable support for parental involvement activities
under section 1118 of the ESEA as the parents may request.
● The school will be governed by the following statutory definition of parental
involvement, and will carry out programs, activities, and procedures in accordance with
this definition:
Parental involvement means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful
communication involving student academic learning and other school activities,
including ensuring—
(A) that parents play an integral role in assisting their child’s learning;
(B) that parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child’s education at
school;
(C) that parents are full partners in their child’s education and are included, as
appropriate, in decision-making and on advisory committees to assist in the
education of their child;
(D)the carrying out of other activities, such as those described in section 1118 of the
ESEA.
PART II. DESCRIPTION OF HOW SCHOOLS WILL IMPLEMENT REQUIRED
SCHOOL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT POLICY COMPONENTS
1. Hilltop Elementary will take the following actions to involve parents in the joint
development of its school parental involvement plan under section 1116 & 1118 of the
ESEA:
Annual Parent Title 1 Meeting
2. Hilltop Elementary will hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s
participation in Title I, Part A programs, and to explain the Title I, Part A requirements
and the right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs. The school will
convene the meeting at a time convenient for parents and will offer a flexible number of
additional parental involvement meetings, such as in the morning or evening, so that as
many parents as possible are able to attend. The school will invite all parents of children
participating in Title I, Part A programs to this meeting, and will encourage them to
attend, by:
3. Hilltop Elementary will provide parents of participating children information in a timely
manner about Title I, Part A programs that includes a description and explanation of the
school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure children’s
progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet by:
Report Cards every Nine Week Period
4. Hilltop Elementary will, at the request of parents, provide opportunities for regular
meetings for parents to formulate suggestions and to participate, as appropriate, in
decisions about the education of their children. The school will respond to any such
suggestions as soon as practicably possible by email, phone or in person.
Every teacher will hold one parent-teacher conference by the end of the first nine
weeks grading period.
Administrators will sit in on the conference at the request of the parent or the teacher.
5. Hilltop Elementary will provide each parent an individual student report about the
performance of their child on the State assessment in at least math and reading by:
STAAR Reports are available online to the parents
6. Hilltop Elementary will take the following actions to provide each parent timely notice
when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four (4) or more consecutive
weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified within the meaning of the term in section
200.56 of the Title I Final Regulations (67 Fed. Reg. 71710, December 2, 2002) by:
Parents will receive a letter from the principal notifying them that their teacher, usually
a substitute, is not highly qualified.
7. Hilltop Elementary will provide assistance to parents of children served by the school,
as appropriate, in understanding topics by undertaking the actions described in this
paragraph --
● the state’s academic content standards,
● the state’s student academic achievement standards,
● the state and local academic assessments including alternate assessments,
● the requirements of Part A,
● how to monitor their child’s progress, and
● how to work with educators:
Parent Conferences and Ongoing Communication with Parents/Guardians
8. Hilltop Elementary will provide opportunities for parents to participate with the school
as we grow as a learning community by offering parent partnerships such as:
● Meet the Teacher Night
● General PTO Meetings
● Public school Week Activities
● or other applicable family activities
9. Hilltop Elementary will, to the extent feasible and appropriate, coordinate and integrate
parental involvement programs and activities with public preschool, and other school
programs. The school will also conduct other activities, such as parent resource centers,
that encourage and support parents in more fully participating in the education of their
children, by:
● Grade level musicals throughout the year
● Thanksgiving luncheon
● Popsicle Social
● Holiday Parties
● Field Days
● Active PTO
PART III. DISCRETIONARY SCHOOL PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT POLICY
COMPONENTS
NOTE: The School Parental Involvement Policy may include additional paragraphs listing and
describing other discretionary activities that the school district, in consultation with its parents,
chooses to undertake to build parents’ capacity for involvement in the school and school system
to support their children’s academic achievement, such as the following discretionary activities
listed under section 1118(e) of the ESEA:
● involving parents in the development of training for teachers, principals, and other
educators to improve the effectiveness of that training;
● providing necessary literacy training for parents from Title I, Part A funds, if the school
district has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for that training;
● paying reasonable and necessary expenses associated with parental involvement
activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in
school-related meetings and training sessions;
● training parents to enhance the involvement of other parents;
● arranging school meetings at a variety of times, or conducting in-home conferences
between teachers or other educators who work directly with participating children,
arrange meetings with parents who are unable to attend conferences at school in order to
maximize parental involvement and participation in their children’s education;
● adopting and implementing model approaches to improving parental involvement;
● establishing a school parent advisory council to provide advice on all matters related to
parental involvement in Title I, Part A programs;
● developing appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses,
including faith-based organizations, in parental involvement activities.
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PART IV. ADOPTION
This School Parental Involvement Policy has been developed jointly with, and agreed on with,
parents of children participating in Title I, Part A programs, as evidenced by
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This policy was adopted by the Azle ISD on _________ and will be in effect for the period of
one school year.. The school will distribute this policy to all parents of participating Title I, Part
A children on or before October 20, 2025.
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(Signature of Authorized Official)
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