Annual preparation for a school year by an English department

Parents meeting

1. Title I Annual Parent Meeting
Toombs County Middle School
Mr. T. J. Mercer, Principal
701 Bulldog Road
Lyons, GA 30436
[phone]
September 18, 2024
3:30 p.m.

2. What is a Title I School?
A Title I school receives money based on the number of low-income
families living in the school district.
The purpose of Title I under ESEA is to ensure that all children have a
fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education
and succeed on challenging state academic achievement standards and
state academic assessments.

3. How Does Our School Spend Title I Money?
Hire additional teachers above and beyond what the state funds to
reduce class sizes
Purchase supplemental instructional materials-supplies, software
programs, technology
Fund one Instructional Coach

4. How Does Our School System Spend Title I
Parent and Family Engagement Money?
Fund District Parent and Family Engagement Coordinator-Rhonda Benton
Purchase supplies for Parent and Family Engagement activities
Purchase resources for school Parent Resource Center-Contact Karen
Braddy (TCMS Counselor) for information about these resources.

5. How Does TCMS Participate in the Title I
Program?
Toombs County Middle School is a Title I Schoolwide School.
Schoolwide means every child in the building benefits from services and
supplemental materials which should result in improving the academic
achievement of all students, particularly the lowest achieving students.

6. What Are Our School’s Title I Schoolwide
Requirements?
Identify school needs and areas that require academic focus for improvement based
on student achievement data.
Set goals for improvement, and make plans to incorporate strategies that are based
on scientific research to increase student achievement
Identify students who will benefit from additional support
Partner with families in order to provide the best support possible for all students
to make progress.
Provide staff with training, professional learning, resources and materials in order
to enhance their teaching, and ability to work effectively with families.
Share the School Improvement Plan

7. What are our Schoolwide Goals 2024-2025?
Increase the percent of students scoring at level 3 or 4 in ELA and Math
standards on the GA Milestones EOG Assessment by 3% as compared to
FY 24.
Increase the percent of students reading on grade level and performing on
grade level in math on the i-Ready diagnostic assessments by 3%.

8. What Programs/Supports Are In Place to
Help My Child?
i-Ready Reading and Math
These programs are used to determine where students may need additional
support on grade level standards and are also used for RTI.
IXL Math
This is an online program that evaluates students’ grade level proficiency in
Math and provides personalized instruction that links students to the skills
that will help them build on their knowledge and remediate gaps in learning.

9. What Curriculum Does Our School Use?
Our curriculum is aligned to the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Teachers
work together to plan and align assessments to ensure that all students
receive adequate instruction to be successful on the various assessments
given throughout the school year.
www.georgiastandards.org

10. What Tests Will My Child Take?
*Georgia Milestones End of Grade Assessment
This assessment measures how well students have learned the knowledge and
skills outlined in the state-adopted content standards in English language
arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
*Georgia Alternate Assessment 2.0
This test is designed to ensure that students with significant cognitive
disabilities are provided access to the state academic content standards and
given the opportunity to demonstrate achievement of the knowledge,
concepts, and skills that are essential in these standards.
comprised of performance tasks
designed to measure the degree students have mastered alternate
achievement standards in ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies

11. What Tests Will My Child Take?
*i-Ready
This is an online program designed to assess students and provide
individualized instruction based on each student’s unique needs for Reading
and Math.

12. What Tests Will My Child Take?
*ACCESS
This test given ONLY to EL (English Learner) students to determine their
progress in learning English.

ACCESS does not measure a student’s academic achievement or content
knowledge.
ACCESS provides a snapshot of how well a student understands and can
produce the language needed to access the academic content presented in
an English language classroom.

13. What Tests Will My Child Take?
*Alternate ACCESS for ELLs
This test is intended only for English learners with significant cognitive
disabilities that are severe enough to prevent meaningful participation in
the ACCESS for ELLs assessment.
Participation Criteria:
1. The student has been classified as an EL.
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2. The student has been classified as a special education student and is
receiving special education services.
3. The student has a significant cognitive disability.
4. The student participates in the Georgia Alternate Assessment 2.0.

14. What is Required by Law
for Parent and Family
Engagement?

15. What is the District Parent and Family
Engagement Plan?
The Parent and Family Engagement Plan explains various ways in which
parents can be involved in developing plans with our teachers and
administrators to meet the needs of our students.
We gather parent input throughout the year from our parents through
meetings, conferences, and surveys.
Can be found on our system website at
www.toombscountyschools.org

16. What is TCMS’s Parent and Family
Engagement Plan?
The TCMS Parent and Family Engagement Plan describes the purpose of
the parent and family engagement plan along with information about
the Title I program.
It describes how parents can be involved in the planning, review, and
improvement of parent and family engagement programs.
It describes how parents can be involved in the development of the
schoolwide plan.
It also describes specific parent and family engagement activities that
parents may participate in during the school year.
Can be found on our school website at
https://tcms.toombscountyschools.org

17. What is a School-Parent Compact?
A school-parent compact is an agreement that parents, students, and
teachers develop together.
It explains how parents and teachers will work in partnership to make sure
all students get the individual support they need to reach and exceed grade-
level standards.
Will be available on our school website at
https://tcms.toombscountyschools.org

18. Does My Child’s Teacher Meet Professional
Qualifications?
What Is a Parent’s Right to Know?
In compliance with the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act,
parents may request the following information:
1. Whether the student’s teacher—
has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and
subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction;
is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which
State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived; and,
is teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher.
2. Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so,
their qualifications.

19. What Opportunities Does TCMS Provide for
Family Engagement?
The TCMS Plan lists these ways for parents to be involved:
If you are unable to attend a meeting, please check the school/system website for the
information provided.
Open House
Annual Title I Meeting
Completing the annual Title I Parent Surveys
Parents-to-Lunch
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Comprehensive Needs Assessment Meeting
RTI Meetings
Parental Engagement Meetings-Parent Resource Night, Literacy and Math
Night, Parent Engagement Night-GA Milestones Prep Session, Science Fair,
FFA/Agricultural Presentation, Transition Meetings-8
th
Grade Orientation,
Moving to Middle School-5
th
grade students and parents
Social Media

20. Parent Questions and Concerns
Parent questions and concerns are responded to in a timely manner.
You may contact Mr. T. J. Mercer, Principal, at any time. The school
number is 912-526-8363 or you can email her at
[email protected].
You may contact individual teachers at 912-526-8363. Most teachers’
email addresses would be:
[email protected].
For example: [email protected]
You can also locate a teacher’s email address by going to the TCMS website
and clicking Staff Directory. The email addresses are listed by each
person’s name.
Sometimes emails get caught as SPAM. If you don’t receive an answer,
please call us.