Title I Information

Parent Family Engagement Policy 2025-2026

Grady A. Brown Elementary School is committed to building strong partnerships with families to ensure student success. Our goal is to establish a collaborative school-home relationship that fosters academic achievement and a positive learning environment.

Parent Involvement in Developing the Policy

A team consisting of the School Improvement Team and parent representatives will meet to develop and review the Parent and Family Engagement Policy. This group may include additional staff or community members as needed. All stakeholders will be invited to share input to ensure the policy reflects the needs, priorities, and voices of our school community.

Annual Meeting for Parents

An annual Title I Night will be held for all families to receive detailed information about Title I guidelines, program requirements, and any updates or changes for the year. During this event, families will also receive curriculum information and a copy of the current Parent and Family Engagement Policy. Parents will be invited to review the policy, offer feedback, and participate in discussions to revise it as needed. In addition, the School–Parent Compact will be shared and reviewed with families to ensure shared understanding of roles and responsibilities in supporting student success. The Title I Compact will also be reviewed.

School-Parent Compact

As per Title I regulations, Grady A. Brown Elementary School will collaborate with parents to develop a school-parent compact. This compact will outline the shared responsibilities between parents, school staff, and students to promote academic success. The compact will include a checklist of expectations for teachers, parents, and students in supporting student achievement. Parents will receive the compact at the beginning of the school year to ensure clarity on the roles each party plays in fostering student success.

Grady A Brown Elementary Parent/Guardian Compact

Grady A Brown Elementary and the parents/guardians of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), agree that this compact outlines how parents/guardians, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents/guardians will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve North Carolina’s highest standards. This compact is in effect for the year of 2025-2026.

Grady A. Brown Elementary will be responsible for:

• The school will provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment and enable the participating students to meet North Carolina’s student academic achievement goals, through high quality research based practices.

• The school will hold parent/guardian-teacher conferences after the first 9 week period and will offer parent/guardian-teacher conferences after each additional 9 week period. During this time the compact will be discussed as it relates to individual students and their academic achievement.

• The school will provide parents/guardians with frequent reports such as report cards, newsletters, progress reports and other documents based on individual student achievement.
• The school will ensure reasonable access to staff. Staff will be available for consultation with parents through parent/teacher conferences, email and limited phone calls.
• The school will provide parents/guardians opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class. Opportunities may include field trips and in class activities (working with individual students, reading with students, presentations, and other appropriate activities based on the needs of the classroom).

Parent/Guardian Responsibilities

We, as parents/guardians, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:

• Ensure children arrive on time each day;
• Ensure children attend school daily except when ill;
• Check homework folder and/or assignment log and sign when appropriate;
• Make sure homework is complete;
• Volunteer in child’s classroom;
• Participate in conferences/decisions relating to child’s education;
• Join and or serve on Parent Teacher Association, School Improvement Team and other policy groups when possible;
• Promote positive use of extracurricular time;

Student Responsibilities (Optional)

As a student at Grady A. Brown Elementary, I will share the responsibility to recognize my full potential in the area of academic achievement and
work to the best of my ability on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study’s highest standards.

• I will do my homework each day and ask for help if I do not understand the assignment;
• I will make time to read and/or be read to at least 15 minutes (K/1), 25 minutes (2/3) , or 30 minutes and more (4/5)each day outside of school;
• I will give my parent/s or guardian/s responsible for my welfare my daily/weekly folder to check as well as information I receive from my teacher or school.

Grady A. Brown Parent Compact 

Policy 1310 Parental Involvement (English)

Policy 1310 parental involvement (Spanish)