The Plan The Promise

The Family and Community Engagement Plan and all other Title I information are available on our school’s website at bbharris.org under the Title I Section. Families can also find paper copies of this Family and Community Engagement Plan in our Parent Center, the AP-TI Office, and the Harris Front Office. Documents will be disseminated using Parent Square during the fall semester registration process and curriculum nights. As new students enroll, they will receive the documents during the registration process, also through Parent Square.

It is reviewed and revised at least annually during the planning meeting in the spring. All feedback forms from the planning meeting are submitted to the Office of Federal Programs for review.  Families who are not able to attend the planning meeting have the opportunity to review draft documents and provide input during the draft document review period.

Harris Elementary will communicate with families in an easy to understand way by providing school related communication in a language that parents can understand and translated to the extent necessary and reasonable. These communication methods include: School Messenger (email only), flyers, personal phone calls, school website, periodic newsletters, e-mail, marquee, Friday folders, progress reports, report cards, and PTA meetings. 

Parents may schedule meetings at any time by calling the main office number: 770-476-2241.

ENGAGING AND EMPOWERING FAMILIES WITH…

• Title I Program Information: Program information is available during the Title I Planning Meeting in the spring and Annual Parent Meetings in the fall, on the school website, and in the Parent Center.
• Curriculum Information: Knowing what your child is learning at school is important. We will keep you informed throughout the year about what your child is learning during parent meetings, conferences, eCLASS, and on our school website.
• Student Progress Monitoring: The Parent Portal is an online resource that allows families to view grades, attendance, schedules, assessment, and your child’s results, course history, and much more. Monitoring your child’s progress in school is an important way to be engaged.
• Parent Resources: We have many resources available for checkout to use at home with your child. We also host several parent workshops to empower you as you work with your child at home.
• Staff Training: We will train our staff to effectively communicate with you. Your input on how we train our staff is valuable.
• Communication: We will communicate, to the extent feasible, all information with you in a language and format you understand. Whenever possible, we will provide interpreters during parent workshops, and academic events. Translation is available for most documents.
• Transition Support: Entering a new school can be scary for both students and families. We will host events to make sure both you and your child are aware of what is expected and how you can prepare as your child transitions to a new school level, college, and career.

Empathy: Cultural competence, staff and student wellbeing, educator diversity.

Equity: Multi-tiered system of supports, opportunity and access, equitable resource allocation.

Effectiveness: Results-Based evaluation system, talent management, educational return on investment.

Excellence: Preferred education destination, post-secondary and workforce readiness, world-class communication and engagement.  

We will provide all students with high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment to meet high academic standards.

Harris Elementary School students will increase student achievement on Georgia Milestones and improve reading proficiency school-wide.

Literacy Foundational Learning Skills

• Kindergarten – Phonological awareness – pronounce initial, medial vowel and final sound

• 1st Grade – Phonics - blend, isolate vowels, and decode

• 2nd Grade – Read for fluency and comprehension

• 3rd Grade – Read and understand stories, dramas and poems

• 4th Grade – Understand theme, characterization, structures of poetry and drama

• 5th Grade – Compare multiple texts

Math Foundational Learning Skills

• Kindergarten - identify, write, and represent numbers to 20; compare two sets of up to 10 objects each

• 1st Grade – Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction within 20

• 2nd Grade – Use place value understanding to represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction within 100

• 3rd Grade –Solve problems involving multiplication and division within 100

• 4th Grade – Solve problems involving addition and subtraction through the hundred-thousand place, as well as multiplication and division of multi-digit whole numbers

• 5th Grade - Understand the place value system and solve problems involving customary measurements, metric measurements, and time and analyze graphical displays of data to answer relevant questions

It is a plan that describes how our school will provide opportunities to improve family engagement that will support student learning at school and at home. All students and their families are invited and encouraged to fully participate in the opportunities described in this plan. The school will provide information and as many opportunities as possible for the participation of all family members. 

It is a written agreement that outlines how the school, the students, and the family will work together to ensure your child’s academic success. An effective School-Family Promise contains the following elements:

• Clear learning goals that are linked to the school’s improvement plan
• Specific skills students will learn during the year
• Strategies that staff, families, and students will use to improve student learning
• Ways to extend learning at home
• Methods teachers and family members will use to communicate about student progress
• Opportunities for family members to observe and participate in the classroom
• Jointly-developed by families, school staff, students, community business partners, and other stakeholders during our Planning Meeting
• At Harris Elementary, we will review our School-Family Promise throughout the year at our Curriculum Nights, Parent-Teacher Conferences, and at Family Engagement Workshops.

 

Harris Elementary will…    

               

• Offer math workshops for parents to provide tools & strategies for understanding and solving word problems. (Goal 4.C)
• Offer technology components at each family workshop to support reading fluency and comprehension and mathematical problem-solving. (Goal 4.C)

Please ensure all activities engage families in the education of their children.

As Students, we will…

• Practice reading skills and comprehension strategies, practice high frequency/sight words, and read daily to improve fluency and comprehension. (Goal 2.A)
• Practice word problem-solving strategies at home using resources learned by our parents in workshops and taught by our teachers in class. (Goal 2.A)
• Practice reading comprehension and word problem-solving strategies using online resources, including class and other tools at home. (Goal 2.A) 

As Families, we will…

• Support literacy goals by reading nightly and attending parent workshops to learn reading comprehension fluency strategies and high frequency/sight words and practice these with my child at home. (Goal 4.C)
• Support math goals by attending parent workshops to learn math word problem solving strategies and games to use with my child at home. (Goal 4.C)
• Utilize the Parent Portal and other online resources, including eCLASS, to support my child in reading and math at home. (Goal 4.C)

Ms. Jennifer Redd               May 5, 2025

Principal’s Signature Date