SRR Title I Parent/Guardian and Family Plan

2025-2026 Sauk Rapids-Rice Public School District Title I Parent/ Guardian and Family Engagement Plan 

Sauk Rapids-Rice Public School District is committed to providing a quality education for every child. To this end, the district is committed to establishing meaningful partnerships with parents and the community. Everyone gains if school and home work together to promote and support high achievement by our children. Neither home nor school can do this job alone. Parents play a critical role as their child's first teachers. The support parents provide their child and the school, is essential to their child's success every step of the way.

The Sauk Rapids-Rice Public School District is committed to supporting a path for every student  by remaining committed to and aligned with the six strategic commitments:

  • Culture of high-quality and effective instruction
  • Partnership and collaboration
  • Equitable education
  • Student and staff well-being
  • Stewardship of resources
  • High student achievement

By achieving the goals established in the Strategic Plan and Portrait of a Graduate, the district will prepare students to be successful in the 21st century as defined by the World’s Best Workforce (more information about the Strategic Plan can be found on the district website).

To make sure there is effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership with parents and the community, Pleasantview Elementary and the district will assist in improving student achievement:

  1. Provide parents with children receiving Title I services assistance in understanding the state academic standards, the state and local academic assessments, the parent and family engagement rights of Title I, how to monitor their child’s progress, and work with their child’s teachers to improve the academic success of their child.
  2. Provide materials and training to help parents work with their children to improve their children’s academic achievement. This could be literacy training and using technology, as appropriate, to foster parental involvement.
  3. Educate teachers, pupil services personnel, principals, and other staff, with the assistance of parents, on the value and utility of contributions of parents, and in how to reach out to, communicate with, and work with parents as equal partners, implement and coordinate parent programs and build ties between parents and schools.
  4. When possible and appropriate, coordinate and integrate parent involvement programs and activities with other federal, state, and local programs, including public preschool programs, and conduct activities together, such as parent resource centers that encourage and support parents in more fully participating in their child’s education.
  5. Ensure, whenever possible, that information related to the school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to the parents of participating children in a format and, to the extent practicable, in a language the parents can understand.

The Sauk Rapids-Rice parent and family engagement policy includes activities that the school district, in consultation with its parents, chooses to undertake to build parents’ capacity for involvement in the school and school system to support their children’s academic achievement, such as the following discretionary activities:

  • Involve parents in the development of training for teachers, principals, and other educators to improve the effectiveness of that training.
  • Provide necessary literacy training for parents from Title I, Part A funds, if the school district has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for that training.
  • Pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions.
  • Train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents.
  • In order to maximize parental involvement and participation in their children’s education, arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conduct in-home conferences between teachers or other educators who work directly with participating children, with parents who are unable to attend those conferences at school.
  • Adopt and implement model approaches to improving parental involvement.
  • Establish a district parent advisory council to provide advice on all matters related to parental involvement in Title I, Part A programs.
  • Develop appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses, including faith-based organizations, in parental involvement activities.
  • Provide other reasonable support for parental involvement activities identified under section 1116, as parents may request.

Parents are invited to participate in a Title I Information and Feedback night connected with fall conferences (October 23, 2025, and October 29, 2025). At this time, they are provided information about what Title I is and is not, services provided through Title I for the current year as well as an opportunity to ask questions and provide input on what they would like to see for their child. Engagement was documented through attendance and feedback from families.  

2025-2026 Engagement Opportunities:

  • October 2025- Parent/Teacher Conferences
  • October 2025- Parent/Teacher Conferences
  • October 2025-Math/Literacy Family Engagement Events  (dates vary by elementary school)
  • November 2025-Math Night
  • January 2026 Math/Literacy/SEL Family Engagement Events (dates vary by elementary school)
  • March 2026- Parent/Teacher Conferences
  • March 2026- Math/Literacy/SEL Family Engagement Events (dates vary by elementary school)
  • February 2026- Kindergarten Open House

*In addition to these all-school events, the school social workers and family advocates will work with parents and provide specific support based on the needs of the student and/or family.

Involvement at these events will be measured by attendance/number of families attending each event.

Resources:

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Section 1116, PDF of the federal law

Titles I and II, Compliance Guide and Monitoring Tool, on the Minnesota Department of Education’s website

Title I, Part A, Parent and Family Engagement Toolkit, Texas Education Agency and Region 16 ESC, Statewide Parent and Family Engagement Initiative

Parent and Family Engagement (PFE) in Title I, Part A Programs, State of Washington, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Local Educational Agencies (LEA/District) and School Policies, Georgia Department of Parent and Family Engagement

Family and Community Engagement, United States Department of Education