Mr. Timothy Simmons
Chief School Lead/Principal
973-373-3223
bcse@​burchcharterschool.org
100 Linden Avenue Irvington, NJ 07111
100 Linden Ave.,Irvington NJ, 07111
 
Mr. Timothy Simmons
Chief School Lead/Principal

For Parents

To ensure effective involvement of parents and to support a partnership among the school involved, parents, and the community to improve pupil academic achievement, each school and school district assisted with Title I funds:

  • Shall provide assistance to parents of pupils served by the school in understanding such topics as the State’s academic content standards and State pupil academic achievement standards, State and local academic assessments, the requirements of this Policy, and how to monitor a child’s progress and work with educators to improve the achievement of their children;
  • Shall provide materials and training to help parents to work with their children to improve their children’s achievement, such as literacy training and using technology, as appropriate, to foster parental involvement;
  • Shall educate teachers, pupil services personnel, Building Principals, and other staff, with the assistance of parents, in 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 the school;
  • Shall, to the extent feasible and appropriate, coordinate and integrate parent involvement programs and activities with Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, Even Start, the Home Instruction Programs for Preschool Youngsters, the Parents as Teachers Program, and public preschool and other programs, and conduct other activities, such as parent resource centers, that encourage and support parents to more fully participate in the education of their children;
  • Shall ensure that information related to 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;
  • May involve parents in the development of training for teachers, Principals, and other educators to improve the effectiveness of such training;
  • May provide necessary literacy training from Title I funds if the school district has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for such training;
  • May pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with local parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions;
  • May train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents;
  • May 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 such conferences at school, in order to maximize parental involvement and participation;
  • May adopt and implement model approaches to improving parental involvement;
  • May develop appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses in parent involvement activities; and
  • Shall provide such other reasonable support for parental involvement activities