Title I Annual Meeting SY 2025-2026
September 18, 2025
Atkinson Elementary School
307 Atkinson Drive
Griffin, GA 30223
770-229-3715
Quanedra Jackson, Principal
Jeff Schellhause, Assistant Principal
Kiayana Capers, Parent Liaison
Title I Annual Meeting SY 2025-2026
August 28, 2025
Atkinson Elementary School
Agenda
Purpose of the Title I Annual Meeting
Federal guidelines require that Title I schools conduct an Annual Parent Meeting to explain and discuss Title I schoolwide programs and to provide parents and community members with information about the school’s/district’s improvement plan, the Title I Family and Parent Engagement Policy, the School-Parent-Student Compact, family engagement opportunities, school performance data, curriculum, instruction and assessments in place at the school.
Atkinson Elementary School is a school-wide Title I program and is conducting this meeting in accordance with Title I Family and Parent Engagement guidelines.
What is Title I?
Title I is a federal grant that provides supplemental funding for resources to schools with a high concentration of students on free/reduced priced meals to meet educational goals, such as:
•Additional tutors, teachers, and/or paraprofessionals
•Training for school staff on how to engage parents and families
•Parent and Family Engagement activities
•Parent and Community Engagement Liaison
•A variety of supplemental materials and equipment
Atkinson Elementary School Improvement Plan
Our Mission:
Our SMART Goals for 2025-2026:
SIP Goal 1 - During the 2025-2026 school year, the ELA content mastery score will increase 5 points from 26.96 to 31.96.
SIP Goal 2 - During the 2025 - 2026 school year, the content math mastery score will increase 5 points from 31.57 to 36.57.
SIP Goal 3 - By Spring 2026, Atkinson Elementary will decrease the number of students absent 10 or more days by 5% from 18% to 13%.
Our School’s Performance Data
The data below was compiled from the 2024-2025 SY Georgia Milestones. This data will serve as a baseline for the 2025-2026 SY. Data is used to develop school goals, school improvement plans, and Title I Family and Parent Engagement documents.
Title I Parent and Family Engagement
families work together to promote academic success for all students.
Title I Parent and Family Engagement
Working Together!
The ESSA law requires that all Title I schools and families work together. The following documents are a collaboration between school and family:
GSCS Title I, Part A Parent & Family Engagement Handbook:
English: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/475256958/
District-Level Improvement Plan
GSCS Road Map to Success is the Griffin-Spalding County Schools’ district improvement plan. The plan outlines core beliefs, mission and vision of GSCS. The GSCS Road Map to Success list strategic priorities, objectives, and action steps that ensure success for all students.
Our School Improvement Plan
Goal Area I: Organizational and Operational Efficiency -
During the 2025-2026 school year, discipline referrals will decrease by 10% from 610 to 549 as measured by Infinite Campus Data.
During the 2025-2026 school year, GHS will increase the CCRPI attendance rate from 66% in to 71% in 2025.
Goal Area II: High Performing Staff- Professional Learning During the 2025-2026 school year, teachers will participate in professional learning that increases strategies to overcome student misunderstandings from 43% to 80% as measured by observation data collected using the GSCS Core Teaching Rubric. (Question 7A)
Goal Area III: Family and Community Engagement - During the 2025-2026 school year, 25% of parents will engage in Bear University Events (with a focus on increasing knowledge of school initiatives, student achievement, Parent Portal, etc).
Goal Area IV: Student Achievement - By Spring of the 2025-2026 school year, the graduation rate will increase by 3% from X%(#) to Y% (#) as measured by Graduation Cohort Rate .
Remedial Education Plan (REP)
REP is an instructional program designed for students in grades 6-12 who have identified deficiencies in reading, writing, or math. This program provides individualized basic skills instruction as mandated by Georgia Law in the areas of reading, writing, and mathematics. The REP Program is a part of a multi-tiered system of supports often referred to as an MTSS framework to address academics and behavior that provides whole child support to students.
School Attendance
The district and school level parent and family engagement policies establish the expectations for parental engagement and describe how the district and school will implement a number of specific parental engagement activities.
Griffin High School School Parent and Family Engagement Policy:
https://online.flippingbook.com/view/475256958/4/
Our School’s Parent and Family Engagement Policy
Working Together!
The school-parent compact is a jointly developed document that outlines how parents, the entire school staff and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the state’s high standards. This compact is revised with parent input at the end of each school year and then is distributed to all parents to be signed at the beginning of the next school year and at all parent engagement events.
School-Parent-Student Collaboration
Working Together!
Parent’s Right to Know
Parents have the right to know about the teaching qualifications of their child’s classroom teacher(s) in a school receiving Title I funds
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW
•Whether the teacher has met state qualification and licensing criteria levels in
the subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction
•Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or other provisional status
through which state qualifications or licensing criteria have been waived
•Whether your child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their
qualifications.
Use of Title I Family Engagement Funds
Our school utilizes Title I money to support the academic programs within our classrooms. Funds were utilized for staffing, supplies, after school program, equipment, materials and the school’s Title I Parent Liaison.
How parents can be involved with deciding how funds are spent this year.
Parents input/feedback is sought in deciding how funds are used in multiple ways:
What Curriculum Does Our School Use?
What Assessments Does Our School Use?
Title I Opportunities for Engagement
We offer ongoing events and programs to provide access to our teachers and staff, such as:
Ways Our School Will Communicate With You
You Can Have Input Into Family Engagement Opportunities
2025-2026 District Title I Input Survey
English Version
The QR Code or the tinyurl to the left takes you to the GSCS District’s Title I Fall Survey. If you have not completed this survey, please take a moment to provide your feedback. This survey guides our plans for providing family engagement events and activities for you and your family this school year.
Please watch for surveys throughout the school year from you child’s/children’s school(s) so that you can provide us with your valuable input.
This spring you will have the opportunity to attend input meetings and complete another district survey to help us plan for the SY 2026-2027
Thank you for your input!
2025-2026 District Title I Input Survey
Spanish Version
Your Engagement is Key to Your Child’s Success
-- Share information about your child’s interests and abilities with teachers
-- If your family is going through difficulties that might impact your child at
school, please let the teacher and school know
-- Access your child’s grades via the IC Parent Portal to get information about your
child’s academic progress
Annual Title I Meeting Evaluation
Parent Liaison: Kiayana Capers
Location:
Atkinson Elementary School
307 Atkinson Drive
Griffin, GA 30223
Questions
Thank You for Attending!