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Title I

Risley International Academy of Innovation is a Title I School Operating A Schoolwide Program. 

  • What Does it Mean For Me?:
    • It means that we receive federal funding (approximately $592,000 for the 2023-2024 school year) to provide additional academic support to our students due to the high population of our families who qualify for free lunch.  
  • How is the Money Spent?:
    • We use it to provide additional staff members, which include: teachers, instructional coaches, and an ISS Supervisor; ELA Intervention resources; professional development for teachers, leadership opportunities, afterschool clubs, and classroom supplies.
  • What Else Does it Mean?:
    • It means that parents have the right to request information on a teacher's qualifications including their state licensing criteria, their status, their certification, content areas, and the certifications of paraprofessionals, etc. 
  • How Can Parents be Involved?:
    • Parents can join our Family Engagement Committee and can have input on our Title I Compact, decisions etc. ( Email Bradley Teter for more info).
  • Who Can I Contact if I Have More Questions?:
    • Janelle Manes Johnson, Principal
    • Bradley Teter, School Culture Coordinator

When Parents are involved, research shows:

  • Students achieve more regardless of socio-economic status, ethnicity, or parents' educational level.
  • The more extensive the parent involvement, the higher the student achievement.
  • Students exhibit more positive attitudes and behavior.
  • Students have higher graduation rates and greater enrollment rates in post-secondary education.

HOW CAN PARENTS BECOME INVOLVED?

EPSTEIN'S FRAMEWORK OF SIX TYPES OF INVOLVEMENT FOR COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS OF PARTNERSHIP:

PARENTING: Assist parents in learning about effective parenting skills through school and community workshops. Help all families establish home environments to support children as students.

COMMUNICATING: Initiate regular two-way communication between home and school. Design effective forms of school-to-home communications about school programs and their children's progress.

VOLUNTEERING: Be a school volunteer. Recruit and organize parent help and support.

LEARNING AT HOME: Provide information and ideas to families about how to help students at home with homework and other curriculum-related activities, decisions, and planning.

DECISION MAKING: Parents must be a part of school decision-making committees such as the School Accountability Committee.

COLLABORATING WITH THE COMMUNITY: Identify and integrate resources and services from the community to strengthen school programs, family practices, and student learning and development.


PARENTS RIGHT TO KNOW:

  • Parents of all children in all Title 1 schools have the right to request and receive timely information on the professional qualifications of their children's classroom teachers.
  • Whether the teacher has met state qualifying and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher is teaching.
  • Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or another provisional status through which state qualification or licensing criteria have been waived.
  • The baccalaureate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate certification or degree held by the teacher, including the field of discipline of the certification or degree.
  • Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.