Family & Community Engagement Plan
2025-2026
The Rush Strong School faculty and staff recognizes that the involvement of our families and community members is an integral part of our school's success. Rush Strong School will use the following strategies this school year to communicate to and involve parents and community partners in school's vision and mission:
· The administration conducts a Title 1 school informational meeting during the year to discuss parental rights, expenditures of funds, and opportunities to be involved with RSS.
· Our Blackboard Connect phone system will be utilized to leave weekly messages to families about school events and announcements. · We utilize our updated website found at http://rss.jc-tn.net/. This site contains all faculty email addresses for easy access. It also contains articles highlighting school activities and student work.
· Parent/School/Student Compacts are utilized at RSS to outline responsibilities for each stakeholder in the process of achieving student success.
· Parent-Teacher Conferences are held in the fall and spring semesters.
· A marquee in the front of the school is used to remind families of important upcoming events. A digital sign is also placed on Hwy 11E and updated regularly to inform the community of important events.
· Home visits are conducted through collaboration with our Family Resource Center. Our pre-k teachers conduct two home visits a year per student as a pre-k initiative
· RSS will maintain a Facebook page as another outlet for information.
· School counselors provide a referral form for parents for referrals to additional service providers when needs arise.
· School counselors provide a list of community resources to families.
· Families are given timely reports on progress with report cards every 9 weeks and mid-terms between each 9-week reporting period. Performance on the latest benchmark assessments are also reported each grading period.
· Student academic progress is viewable to parents and families through the Aspen student