Union County School District

This document serves as a comprehensive implementation planning tool designed to guide organizations in establishing and sustaining effective literacy programs. It outlines essential stages for successful implementation, focusing on building a foundation, framing structures, facilitating recursive refinements, and ensuring long-term sustainability. Key focus areas include professional development (LETRS for educators and administrators), universal literacy instruction, leadership team development, valid assessment practices, data-based decision making, literacy intervention, and community and family involvement. The overarching goal is to improve literacy outcomes by establishing research-based instructional practices, fostering effective leadership, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and system-wide success.

The LeaderinMe Framework outlines core paradigms asserting that everyone can be a leader with genius, that change begins individually, and that students should be empowered in their learning, supported by educator and family partnerships. It promotes highly effective practices including adult learning and modeling, teaching leadership to students, cultivating a leadership environment, fostering shared leadership, establishing goal achievement, and empowering learners. The framework aims to yield measurable results such as highly effective students and adults, a high-trust school culture, and engaged students equipped for success and leadership.

The meeting included an action item for the vote on the submission of the 2019-2020 school calendar. Additionally, information regarding an upcoming parent focus group was discussed with a focus on maintaining a positive and forward-looking tone.

This School-Family Compact serves as an agreement among families, students, and teachers to collectively enhance student academic achievement. The plan outlines shared responsibilities and strategies for improving student learning, including district and school-specific goals for the 2023-2024 school year. Key areas of focus include increasing student mastery of standards, improving the GA Climate Star Rating, enhancing stakeholder connection, raising percentile scores in math and reading, fostering community collaboration, and addressing achievement gaps. It details how teachers, families, and students will contribute to these goals through activities like nightly reading, participation in family engagement events, and utilization of school resources.

This document outlines Union County Middle School's parent and family engagement policy and goals for the 2023-2024 school year. It details strategies for improving family engagement by fostering two-way communication, promoting active parent involvement, and ensuring supportive resources. Key focus areas include district goals related to student achievement, school culture, climate, safety, and communication with family engagement. School goals specifically aim to increase mean RIT scores in math and reading, enhance community collaboration, and address achievement gaps to support student academic success.