Vickery Mill Elementary

School-Family Compact for

Achievement

Fulton County Schools

2017-2018

Adam Maroney, Principal

Uche Ngoddy, Assistant Principal

Growing great students

together.

1201 Alpharetta St. Roswell, GA 30005

Phone: 470.254.2400

school.fultonschools.org/es/vickerymill

Activities to Build Family-School

Partnerships

Join us for events throughout the year. Watch

your email, Thursday Folders and our website

for exact dates. Events include:

Open House Curriculum Night

Academic Workshops VME Dads Club

Parent Volunteering International Night

Parent Liaison Honor Ceremonies

Parent Resource

Center

Communication about Student Learning

Vickery Mill is committed to regular two-way

communication with families about children’s learning.

Some of the ways you can expect us to communicate

are:

Thursday Folders

Principal Friday Messages/Monthly Newsletters

Parent—Teacher Conferences where this compact will be discussed.

Vickery Mill’s Website school.fultonschools.org/es/vickerymill

The Email address we have on record for you

Progress Reports

Report Cards

HAC (Home Access Center) provides parents access to their child’s progress and attendance information 24/7.

For more information on this Compact, please contact the

VMES Title I Parent Liaison - Tacy Garrison at

garrisont@fultonschools.org 770.254.2426

What is a Family-School Compact?

Compact is another word for agreement. The Vickery

Mill Elementary School-Family Compact for

Achievement is an agreement between parents,

students and teachers. It explains how parents and

teachers will work together to make sure all students

get the individual support they need to reach and

exceed grade level standards.

Effective Compacts:

Begin with standards

Focus on and foster student learning

Respond to school data

Define everyone’s responsibilities — and

Depend on us to believe in it and use it!

Jointly Developed

The parents, students and staff of Vickery Mill Elementary

School developed this School-Family Compact for

Achievement through input collected at our Title I Spring

Parent Input Meeting on February 14, 2017. Parents created

the suggestions for home activities to support learning.

School-wide meetings will be held each year to review and

revise the Compact.

Parents are welcome to contribute comments at any time.

(Revised July 1, 2017)

Teachers, Parents, Students-Together for Success

As a SCHOOL, Vickery Mill will... As a Vickery Mill PARENT, I will... As a Vickery Mill STUDENT, I will... Send monthly email newsletter to parents outlining current and upcoming learning objectives including tips and strategies to enable parents to support student learn-ing of Reading and Math at home;

Read monthly email newsletter outlining current and upcoming learning objectives including tips and strate-gies to enable parents to support student learning of Reading and Math at home;

Use strategies and tips from monthly newsletter at home with parent;

Offer parent engagement events and workshops that will provide reading and math strategies parents can use at home to help their child;

Attend parent engagement events and workshops to learn about reading and math strategies I can use at home to help my child;

Practice the reading and math strategies my par-ents learn during parent engagement events and workshops;

Encourage literacy development by allowing students and parents to regularly borrow materials from the VME Media Center and/or Parent Resource Center; encourage students to read at home with or to parents for at least 20 minutes each day followed by summarizing and para-phrasing material to parents; and

Encourage literacy development by borrowing, or encouraging my child to borrow materials from the VME Media Center and/or Parent Resource Center; and set aside time for my child to read at home for at least 20 minutes each day followed by summarizing and para-phrasing material by student; and

Borrow books from the VME Media Center or Par-ent Resource Center regularly, read at least 20 minutes each day followed by summarizing and para-phrasing material to parents; and

Provide families with learning resources including ac-cess to math materials in the Parent Resource Center offering suggestions regarding games and activities that promote fluency and understanding of math skills appro-priate to the student’s grade level.

Utilize learning resources including access to math materials in the Parent Resource Center, including sug-gestions regarding games and activities that promote fluency and understanding of math skills appropriate to the student’s grade level.

Practice my ability to perform math skills appropri-ate to my grade level.

Our Goals for Student Achievement District Goals Vickery Mill’s Goals

Ensure that all FCS students graduate prepared to pursue their chosen paths -- whether college, career or military -- and to succeed on those paths after high school by focusing on 4 top priorities over the next 5 years: Student Achievement - Prepare students with strong academic foundations and

the skills needed to navigate life beyond graduation People and Culture - Provide a welcoming environment and positive school and

district culture for students, families and employees Community Collaboration - Engage families, community members and civic or-

ganizations as active partners Fiscal Responsibility - Manage and protect public funds and assets through effi-

cient and effective use of available resources For measurable outcomes and to review the Strategic Plan 2022 visit http://www.fultonschools.org/en/Pages/StrategicPlan2022.aspx

Vickery Mill administrators and teachers have studied our students’ performance data to decide on the most important area of improvement for our school. Vickery Mill will con-tinue to improve in all academic areas with special focus on literacy. Literacy

K—2nd grades: Phonological Awareness and Phonics - i.e. letter and sound recogni-tion, rhyming, syllables, blending, decoding, isolating vowels, and sight word recogni-tion. VMES will increase the number of students that are reading at or above grade level according to the Benchmark Assessment System from 52% to 62%.

3rd—5th grades: Reading - Our school will increase the number of students scoring at proficient or distinguished on the Georgia Milestones from 24% to 30% by focusing on reading strategies that help students read and comprehend content-area texts.

Math

3rd-5th grades—Our school will increase the number of students scoring at proficient or distinguished on the Georgia Milestones Test from 28%-33%.

**Please keep this School-Parent Compact at Home** (Revised July 1, 2017)