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In a U.S. Department of Education study, a majority of Title I schools indicate that compacts help promote family involvement.  Title I principals were asked to rate the helpfulness of compacts in achieving different types of school and family outcomes.  Responses tended to differ by school poverty, with the highest-poverty schools finding compacts most helpful.In the highest-poverty schools, 85 percent of principals found Title I compacts helpful in supporting homework completion.
  • About 8 out of 10 principals in high-poverty Title I schools rated compacts as helpful, as did a majority of principals in low-poverty schools. 
  • Across all schools, about 30 percent of the principals considered compacts “very helpful”.
  • Principals perceived compacts as having the greatest impact on homework completion, school climate, student discipline, and reading at home—factors that are amenable to intervention by school-family partnership activities.
The Parental Involvement Pledgetm

AS A PARENT, GRANDPARENT, OR CARING ADULT, I hereby give my pledge of commitment to help our community’s children achieve a truly independent future. My declaration of responsibility and commitment to my public schools is stated in these five self-evident truths:

  • As Americans, we are the owners of the public school system.
  • As owners, we bear a responsibility to participate in the system.
  • Accountability for our public schools, their safety, and its employees and its funding rests with us and the rest of the system’s owners.
  • Our children’s future depends on the improvement of the public
    schools.
  • And this improvement depends on our participation.

THEREFORE AS A PARENT,GRANDPARENT, OR CARING ADULT, I take personal responsibility for my child’s safety and education and the safety and education of the children in this community.

  • I pledge to volunteer a minimum of five hours of my time to my public schools each semester.
  • I pledge to spend a minimum of fifteen minutes each school night reading with my child or we will work together on homework and enrichment activity.

Step 1. Sign the Pledge.

 

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Survey Of Volunteer Interests

I am interested in volunteering in the classroom. I’d like to:

 1. Tutor a student
 2. Work with individual students.
 3. Work with small groups of students.
 4. Listen to students read
 5. Translate for students. Language:
 6. Help with teacher’s clerical work.
 7. Prepare materials
 8. Attend field trips
 9. Help students with dramatic performances, special events
 10. Help out in class with art projects, science experiments, etc.
 11. Appear as a guest speaker 

I would like to volunteer in other areas. I’d like to:

 12. Organize or help with school security (bus, school grounds, etc.)
 13. Building maintenance
 14. Carpentry
 15. Gardening or yard work
 16. Work in school library
 17. Photograph school activities
 18. Videotape school activities
 19. Provide transportation to parents for: conferences, events, etc.
 20. Type or do clerical work
 21. Prepare newsletters
 22. Prepare posters, displays, etc.
 23. Do copying and laminating
 24. I am interested in working with children on computers and supervising children while they surf the World Wide Web on the Internet.

I am interested in volunteering by helping at home. I’d like to:

 25. Recruit parents, citizens and local businesses to participate in special reading programs for students.
 26. Call parents, organize phone trees for attendance and special projects
 27. Enter data on a computer
 28. Gather resource materials
 29. Sew
 30. Provide snacks
 31. Correct papers
 32. Cut out letters
 33. Prepare bulletin boards
 34. Stuff envelopes
 35. Distribute brochures door-to-door
 36. Become a block home
 37. I am interested in improving our schools by working with other parents on site-based councils, and projects and issues concerning our schools.

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