Little Fort School Compact - ENGLISH

LITTLE FORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL/COMMUNITY  COMPACT

 

I. GOALS

We, the Little Fort Elementary School community, establish this School Community Compact so that:

  • • Goal 1: Reading. Every student will learn to read well, read often, and enjoy reading through a focused alliance of family support and powerful classroom instruction.
  • • Goal 2: Studying. Every student will become a self-directed learner through teaching that incorporates study skills, homework practices that build study habits, and parental guidance.
  • • Goal 3: Respect & Responsibility. Every student will develop a sense of responsibility and respect for self and others through consistent direction and support from the family and the school.
  • • Goal 4: Community. The school will function as a community of its constituents—parents, students, teachers, and other school personnel.

 

II. RESPONSIBILITIES

A. Parent’s and Family’s Responsibilities

We will:

Goal 1: Reading

  • • Know what skills our child is learning in reading each day.
    • • Read with, or to, our child for 15 minutes each day, five days a week (K- 1st grade).
    • • Read with, or to, your child for 30 minutes each day, five days a week (grades 2-5).
    • • Provide a quiet place for your child to read.
    • • Encourage our child to read for pleasure and to learn.
      • • Get a library card for your child, and encourage your child to bring reading materials from the library into the home.
      • • Visit the library with your child at least twice a month
        • • Talk about reading with your child—what your child is reading and what we are reading.
        • • Establish family reading time as a family activity.

Goal 2: Studying

  • • Establish a study place at home that is quiet, well-lit, and where your child can sit to study.
  • • Monitor your child’s study time, offering praise and encouragement.
    • • Assist your child with study resources by providing books and taking him/her to the library.

 

 

Goal 3: Respect and Responsibility

  • • Make sure that your child attends school regularly, is on time, 8:25 a.m., and is prepared to learn, with necessary supplies and homework completed.
  • • Expect your child to behave responsibly and treat other people with respect.
  • • Teach your child to help other people.
  • • Teach and reinforce table manners.
    • • Teach your child to make proper introductions and greet people warmly and respectfully.
    • • Teach and encourage your child to accept differences in others.
    • • Listen attentively to your child each day.
      • • Teach and model acceptance of responsibility for the positive and negative outcomes of personal behavior.
      • • Teach and model responsible decision making.
        • • Model good citizenship and encourage your child to demonstrate good citizenship (The P.O.O.L of Respect) in the classroom, school, home, and community.

Goal 4: Community

Attend parent-teacher-student conferences and open houses and communicate frequently with your child’s teacher, through notes and conversation, about how well your child is doing and what we can do to help.  Participate in programs offered by the school for parents, including workshops and courses.

B. Student’s Responsibilities

I will:

Goal 1: Reading

  • • Ask my family to read to me or with me for 15 minutes each day, five days a week (K-1st grade).
  • • Ask my family to read to me or with me for 30 minutes each day, five days a week (2nd -5th grade ).
  • • Read regularly for pleasure as well as to learn.
  • • Talk about reading with family members, friends, and teachers.

Goal 2: Studying

  • • Complete my homework on time in a thorough and legible way.
  • • Welcome help from my family on my homework and papers.
  • • Study while sitting up in a quiet, well-lit place.
  • • Plan study time to avoid conflicts with other activities.
  • • Complete and turn in all assignments.
    • • Keep an assignment notebook to record assignments, due dates, work completed, and grades.

Goal 3: Respect and Responsibility

  • • Arrive at school on time and ready to learn, 8:25 a.m.
    • • Pay attention to my teachers, family, and tutors, and ask questions when I need help.
    • • Help other people (family members, teachers, friends) each day.
    • • Exhibit good table manners.
    • • Make proper introductions and greet people warmly and respectfully.
    • • Accept the differences in others.
    • • Listen attentively to someone (family member, teacher, friend) each day.
    • • Behave responsibly and treat other people with respect.
    • • Recognize and accept the positive and negative results of my behavior.
    • • Accept responsibility for my learning.
    • • Follow the P.O.O.L of Respect in the community.

Goal 4: Community

  • • Keep my parents informed about my goal setting learning and behavior at school.

C. Teacher’s Responsibilities

I will:

Goal 1: Reading

  • • Keep parents informed of the reading skills their children are learning and how they can reinforce the skills at home.
  • • Provide time for students to read and encourage discussion and writing about reading.
  • • Participate in professional development in how to teach reading and how to communicate with families.
  • • Read to students at least twice each week.
  • • Require students to read each day.
  • • Encourage class discussion about reading.
    • • Teach students methods for reading for the purpose of mastering the material.

Goal 2: Studying

  • • Assign homework regularly, including reading assignments, and collect, correct, and return homework.
  • • Use homework assignments to help students master material rather than to introduce new material.
  • • Review homework with students, marking the work with comments particular to the student as often as possible.
  • • Count homework grades toward the report card grade.
  • • Teach students how to study.
  • • Teach students to monitor their own learning.

Goal 3: Respect and Responsibility

  • • Encourage students to behave responsibly and treat other people with respect.
  • • Teach and encourage students to be helpful.
  • • Teach and reinforce table manners.
    • • Teach students to make proper introductions and greet people warmly and respectfully.
    • • Teach and encourage students your child to accept difference in others
    • • Teach and encourage attentive listening skills.
      • • Clearly apprise students of assignments to be completed and hold students responsible for meeting obligations.
      • • Teach and model acceptance of responsibility for the positive and negative outcomes of personal behavior.
      • • Teach and model responsible decision making.
        • • Model P.O.O.L of Respect and encourage students to demonstrate P.O.O.L of Respect in the classroom, school, home, and community.

Goal 4: Community

  • • Communicate frequently with parents about their children’s progress and show them how they can help.
  • • Hold at least 1 parent-teacher face to face or telephone conferences a quarter for each student.
  • • Encourage parents to participate in parent education programs offered by the school.