Title I Parent Calendar 2022-2023

Greenwood School District 50 2022-2023 School Year Title I Parent Calendar

Greenwood School District 50 PO Box 248 1855 Calhoun Road Greenwood, SC 29648 (864) 941-5400 Benjamin E. Mays Elementary (MAY) Tiara Watson, Principal 1608 Florida Avenue Greenwood, SC 29646 Telephone: 864-941-5535 Fax: 864-388-2402

Mathews Elementary School (MAT) Barry Jacks, Principal 725 Marshall Road Greenwood, SC 29646 Telephone: 864-941-5680 Fax: 864-941-3496

Eleanor S. Rice Elementary School (RIC) Anna Haynes, Principal 1802 E. Durst Ave. Greenwood, SC 29649 Phone: 864-941-5660 Fax: 864-388-2401

Merrywood Elementary School (MER) Brian Perrin, Principal 329 Deadfall Road West Greenwood, SC 29649 Telephone: 864-941-5700 Fax: 864-388-2400

Hodges Elementary School (HOD) Christine Rogers, Principal 4717 Main Street Hodges, SC 29653 Telephone: 864-374-5000 Fax: 864-374-5028

Pinecrest Elementary School (PIN) David Grice, Principal 220 Northside Drive Greenwood, SC 29649 Telephone: 864-941-5580 Fax: 864-229-5284

Lakeview Elementary School (LAK) Kristen Hopkins, Principal 660 Center Street Greenwood, SC 29649 Telephone: 864-941-5760 Fax: 864-941-3498

Woodfields Elementary School (WFD) Janette Miller, Principal 1032 Emerald Road Greenwood, SC 29646 Telephone: 864-941-5540 Fax: 864-388-7887

Federal Programs PO Box 248 Greenwood, SC 29648 Lori Cothern, Federal Programs Director Telephone: 864-941-5430 Fax: 864-670-8478 Shannon Daniel, Secretary Telephone: 864-941-5410 Brandy Jones, Clerk Telephone: 864-941-5714

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Notes: School and District Plans can be viewed on the Greenwood School District 50 website.

All Parent Calendar items are subject to change.

Please confirm activities with your child’s school.

The Title I Office of Greenwood School District 50 distributes this publication.

Title I is a Federal Program that is part of ESEA (Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act).

ESSA includes provisions that will help to ensure success for students and schools. (source: http://www.ed.gov/essa?src=ed-search ) In Greenwood, our seven of our eight elementary schools receive Title I funds. There are multiple components of this program. You can access additional information at the Greenwood 50 website. (www.gwd50.org)

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Each year a Title I orientation meeting is held to inform parents about these Federal funds and to provide an opportunity for input. This will occur at Elementary Orientation.

The following items will be distributed: An electronic copy is available at: http://www.gwd50.org/page/174 • Title I Overview • Compact Suggestion Form • District Parent Involvement Policy • Parent Orientation Evaluation

The school district is continually monitoring the implementation of the Title I plan. Parents are involved in the planning and design of the district and school Title I plans in the following ways: • • • • •

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Parents are always welcome to contact the Title I Office at 864-941-5430 to obtain additional information or to offer suggestions for parenting events and/or Title I plans. If you would like to be a part of the school or district planning team for Title I, please contact your principal or the Title I Office.

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Serving on the District Title I Committee Serving on the School Title I Committee Title I suggestion boxes in each Title I school Parent Surveys and Annual Evaluations Input at PTO meetings

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Legislation requires school districts to utilize a portion of their Title I funds to support parent involvement because parents have a right to be involved in their child’s education. The parent involvement activities are part of the district set-aside plan. The members of the district’s Title I Planning Team developed this plan.

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Please be sure to turn in the following forms during the first week of school: Compact Suggestions, Parent Orientation Evaluation, and District Parent Involvement Policy

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The first PTO meeting at your school will have the following agenda items:

• Title I Compact review and approval • Adoption of School Parent Involvement Policy or Adoption of the District Parent Involvement Policy as school policy

• Opportunity for questions and input into the Title I

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Parental Involvement Parental involvement is an integral part of the Title I program. Parents are encouraged to become partners in helping their children achieve and become actively involved in all aspects of the process of the Title I program, from the writing of the plan to its implementation and evaluation.

The ESEA legislation requires schools to utilize a portion of their Title I funds to support parent involvement. Parents should contact the school principal with any comments or suggestions regarding the school’s parent involvement.

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Parent Involvement Policy and School-Parent Compact Each Title I school is required to ask for input from parents regarding the development of a parent involvement policy and a school-parent compact.

The parent involvement policy explains how the school plans to work with parents to review and improve parent programs and describes how parents can participate in planning these programs.

The school-parent compact outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the way in which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the state’s high standards.

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Our district will continue implementation of the state standards for English language arts and math this year. The link below will provide additional information about our state standards. http://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards-learning/ If you need paper copies of these items, contact the Title I Office.

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Kindergarten Assessments Students in Kindergarten will begin participating in the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment prior to the start of school. You will be contacted for an appointment time. The assessment will continue through the 45th day.

Students also participate in the online MAP assessment.

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CERDEP K4 Parenting Events CERDEP K4 Parenting Events will be held at 8:15am at the Greenwood 50 Performing Arts Center at Greenwood High School. Students will receive a free book and breakfast will be available.

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Elementary Parent Conference Dates – September 12th –23rd (Report Cards will be given out during parent conferences.)

If you will need a translator for conference night, please contact your child’s teacher prior to scheduling a conference time.

Parent conferences are an important time for you to have the opportunity to communicate with the teacher about your child’s academic progress. The teacher will be sharing multiple assessment measures to give you an overall picture of your child’s achievement. Take the time to write down questions or concerns that you would like to discuss at the meeting, and ask for clarification about any items that are unclear. Parent involvement is key to the overall academic success of your child.

Here are some questions you may want to ask your child’s teacher: • • •

Can you provide some tips for helping my student at home?

Could you assist me with the titles of books that would be appropriate for my child’s current reading level?

What would you say are the strengths of my child academically?

You will receive information about multiple assessment instruments. The following are some of those items: • SC READY • SCPASS • MAP • State Kindergarten Assessment

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We encourage you to exercise your right to be an integral part of your child’s education. We always welcome comments and suggestions for making our program better.

Please be sure you register for the Parent Portal. You can take an approved ID to the school office to receive access to this valuable resource.

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Phonics and Reading at Home Phonics instruction helps beginning readers understand the relationship between letters and sounds, and letters and words. Students will learn the alphabet “code” in early grades to help learn the sounds and figure out words.

When your child comes to a word they don’t know, they can decode the word using the sounds (sound it out), name the word, and then attach meaning. The context of the passage will help a reader get the meaning of a word once a word has been decoded.

This year, students will bring home decodable readers to practice using the sounds they have learned in class. To help your child at home, allow them to read out loud to you. If they struggle with a sentence, allow them to figure the sentence out and reread the sentence to you. Rereading the books will help your child become more confident and fluent as a reader.

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Summary of Title I Plan for District-Wide Activities for 2022-2023 The distribution of Title I funds to a school is based upon the number of students who qualify through the CEP program. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a provision from the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that allows schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) with high poverty rates to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students. CEP eliminates the burden of collecting household applications to determine eligibility for school meals, relying instead on information from other meanstested programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families for free lunch.

The portion of Title I funds not allocated to schools are expended on district-wide Title I activities to assist in improving the instructional program in all Title I schools and to ensure that the schools and the district continue to comply with ESEA regulations. If you have questions regarding the Title I Plan for District-Wide Activities, please contact Lori Cothern, 864-941-5430.

District-Wide Title I Expenditures for 2022-2023: • Provide for the employment of the Homeless Liaison for the district.

• Employ Title I Director and Title I Secretaries to assist schools with fulfilling program planning, implementation, and ESEA legislative requirements.

• Provide parent resources and ESEA information to parents.

• Provide materials for homeless students Please visit the District webpage for additional information.

Departments / Federal Programs Parent’s Right to Know http://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards-learning/ As a parent of a student enrolled at a Title I school, you have the right to know the professional qualifications of the classroom teachers and instructional assistants who instruct your child. Federal law allows you to ask for the following information about your child’s classroom teachers and requires the District to give you this information in a timely manner: • whether the teacher is certified to teach the subjects and/or grade levels the teacher is teaching, • whether the teacher’s certificate is a waiver or substandard certificate, • the teacher’s academic major, graduate degrees, if any, and • the teacher’s certification area.

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Reminder: A Title I suggestion box is located in the front office of each school. If you have questions or suggestions, please place that in the box and the principal will respond to you. You may also call the Title I Office at 864-941-5430 with any questions or suggestions you may have.

The suggestions are collected twice a month. If you have questions or issues that require a faster response, please feel free to contact your school’s principal or Title I Director by phone or email.

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LAK, MAY, MER, PIN, RIC, WFD PTO Winter Performances

South Carolina Department of Education Complaint Resolution Procedures The State Department of Education (SDE) has the authority to hear complaints and appeals regarding certain federal programs and requires school districts to distribute the following information concerning the South Carolina Department of Education’s complaint resolution procedures: 1.

Organizations or individuals may file a complaint that applies to Title I within thirty days of receiving the decision by the school district or group of districts.

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Complaints and appeals must be made in writing and they must contain a statement indicating the violation, the facts on which the statement is based, and the specific requirement of law or regulation allegedly violated. Complaints and appeals must be filed with the State Superintendent of Education at the S.C. Department of Education, 1429 Senate Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201.

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The SDE will confirm receipt of the complaint within ten business days and will conduct an investigation to determine the merits of the complaint.

The Deputy Superintendent will issue a final decision regarding the complaint within 60 days, except under exceptional circumstances that warrant an extension.

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The final decision of the SDE may be appealed to the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education.

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If we hope to develop students who choose to read in their free time, we need to help them love books while at the same time learn to deal with the vast array of reading material that comes in all sizes, topics, and difficulty levels. Below are some tips for students to help select books that are appropriate for their reading level.

TOO EASY BOOKS: These are old favorites. They’re books you like to read for fun. They’re ones you might decide to pick up and read when you need a break from hard books or to practice reading with expression. Often it’s a book you’ve read before.

Ask yourself these questions. If you are answering yes, this book is probably a “Too Easy” book for you. Have fun reading it.

1. Have you read it lots of times before?

2. Do you understand the story (text) very well?

3. Do you know (can you understand) almost every word?

4. Can you read it smoothly?

JUST RIGHT BOOKS: It isn’t too difficult - one or two words per page that you don’t know. You can use this book to help you learn to read by practicing the strategies you’ve been learning.

Ask yourself these questions. If you are answering yes, this book is probably a “Just Right” book for you. Go ahead and learn from it.

1. Is this book new to you?

2. Do you understand some of the book?

3. Are there just a few words per page you don’t know?

4. When you read, are some places smooth and some choppy?

5. Can someone help you with this book? Who? TOO HARD BOOKS: These books are ones that you might take home and have one of your parents read to you. As you are reading, hold up a finger for every word on the page that you don’t know. If you have more than a couple of fingers raised, it is probably too hard.

Ask yourself these questions, if you are answering yes, this book is probably a “Too Hard” book for you. Spend a little time with it now, give it another try later.

1. Are there more than a few words you don’t know?

2. Are you confused about what is happening in most of this book?

3. When you read, does it sound pretty choppy?

4. Is everyone else busy and unable to help you?

Notes and quotes from: “Lessons From Goldilocks” An Article by Marilyn Ohlhausen and Mary Jepsen

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CERDEP K4 Parenting Events will be held at 8:15am at the Greenwood 50 Performing Arts Center at Greenwood High School. Students will receive a free book and breakfast will be available.

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Notes: Title I provides parents the opportunity to give input into the Title I program. The parent evaluation form will be printed in a brochure format and provide information on each school’s Title I program.

All evaluations will go home Monday, March 6, 2023.

• Final day to collect forms is Friday, March 9, 2023.

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This is one of the ways you can be involved in the decisions regarding the use of Title I funds in your school.

Remember to use the Title I Suggestion Box in your front office to ask questions or provide input. The principal will respond to you via email or phone. Please list your preference for response on your form.

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If you would like to be a member of the District or School Title I Committee, please contact the Title I Office or the principal at your child’s elementary school.

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Notes: Parents of Multilingual Learners A MLP Survey will be distributed during this month to collect your input about our district MLP program.

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April 2023 Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Weekend 1/2

5

6

7

8/9

Good Friday

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14

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19

20

21

149

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151

26

27

28

154

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156

April 9th – Easter

15/16

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April 2023 Mon

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Mon

Tues

Wed

1/2

Thur

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1

2

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3

4

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10/11

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Monday 1

2

MAY PTO Multicultural Night PIN Spring Concert

Title I As the year ends, please remember to provide input, suggestions, or questions to your principal through the Title I Suggestion Box that is located in your front office.

You may also contact the Title I Office at 864-9415430.

Tuesday

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157

8

9 MAT Literacy Night

State Tests We will administer SC READY for ELA and Math this school year. This test will measure a student’s knowledge in writing, reading, and mathematics.

The tests will be administered in the spring during the last 20 days. Students in grades 3-8 will be involved in this testing event.

Students in grades 4 and 6 will take the SCPASS science test this year.

Parents will receive more information about the exact dates of SC READY and SCPASS.

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15

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Preparing for Testing • Ensure that your child is present during testing

• • • • • •

(children generally perform better when taking tests in their groups rather than at a make-up session).

Make sure your child gets a good night's sleep before a test, and make sure your child eats well the day of a test.

Maintain a pleasant home environment and avoid unnecessary conflicts. Try to make the morning of the test pleasant. Do not add to your child’s stress.

Get your child to school on time the day of the test.

Remind your child the test is important. Encourage him/her to do his/her best.

Remind your child to listen carefully to the instructions from the teacher and to read the directions and each question carefully.

Encourage your child to stay focused on the test, even if other students finish early.

167

Board Meeting 6:00 pm (Tentative)

22

172

29 Memorial Day

Schools and Offices closed

168

23

173

30

Last 5 Student Days

MAY Awards Day 1st-4th AM MAY K5 Celebration 6pm

177

May 2023 Wednesday 3

Thursday 4

159

160

10

11

Friday 5

CERDEP K4 Parenting Event

Weekend 6/7

161

12

13/14

May 14th – Mother’s Day 164

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166

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171

24

25

26

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169

31

Last 5 Student Days

MAY Field Day MAY 5th Celebration 6pm

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20/21

Last 5 Student Days

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CERDEP K4 Parenting Events CERDEP K4 Parenting Events will be held at 8:15am at the Greenwood 50 Performing Arts Center at Greenwood High School. Students will receive a free book and breakfast will be available.

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May 2023

July 2023

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Monday

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Tuesday

Notes:

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6 Inservice Day

Inservice Day

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13

19

20

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27

June 2023 Wednesday

Thursday 1

Last 5 Student Days

Friday 2

Last 5 Student Days

Weekend 3/4

Exams 1/2 Day for Students

Exams 1/2 Day for Students

Day 180 End of 4th Nine Weeks

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179

180

8

9

10/11

15

16

17/18

Summer Break Begins

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June 18th – Father’s Day

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28

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30

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