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Frank West School directly benefits
from the active commitment of our parents and community members. The
school community is involved in school activities that promote student
achievement and open communication between the school and home. Their
involvement is needed to meet the diverse needs of our student
population. We have an “open-door” policy with our parents and
community members to participate in daily instructional program, with our
teachers, students, and staff, to help improve student achievement,
attitude, and attendance. Through weekly newsletters, we keep our
community informed about upcoming events and invite them to attend,
discuss strategies or ideas to help with schoolwork, homework, or
emotional issues and the staff addresses any pertinent information.
To help our parents we have a family advocate who helps parents with
their basic needs, food, clothing, job training, education, health care,
shelter, and parenting classes. Twice a week, at night, we open our
school for CBET classes, which teaches parents and community members
English and computer skills.
Parent involvement is evident in the classroom, through
participation in formal committees, and through support and time given to
school programs and activities. The formal committees parents are invited
to participate in are School Site Council, Program Monitoring, Developing
the School Plan, School Advisory Committee, English Language Advisory
Committee, and P.T.A., and Booster Club. Parents are active in
supporting school activities such as, Parent/Teacher Conferences, SITS,
IEPS, Back-to-School Night, Standards Night, CAT/6 night, Read Across
America, working in our IMC to make copies, cut paper, etc, Winter
Program, Spring Concert, Saturday School, and our Carnival.
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