“The mutual responsibility of families, schools, and communities to build relationships to support student learning and achievement, support family well-being and the continuous learning and development of children, families, and educators. Family engagement is fully integrated in the child’s educational experience and is both culturally and linguistically appropriate.”
- Texas Administrative Code §102.1003.
YES Prep Public Schools, in accordance with the House Bill 3 High-Quality Pre-Kindergarten guidelines, created a High-Quality Pre-Kindergarten (HQPK) Family Engagement Plan to promote partnership between our school, families, and our community to ensure the successful outcomes for our youngest learners in our pre-kindergarten program.
Collaboratively, we all share the responsibility to encourage and support initiatives, activities, and practices that enhance the success of student learning and achievement.
To learn more about our YES Prep pre-K program, click here.
Family Engagement Plan Development Committee Members:
- Lance Menster, Managing Director, Elementary Academics
- Ashley Dalton, Managing Director, Elementary Special Populations
- Christian Gonzalez, Director, Prekindergarten Program
Contact Person for Families: Christian Gonzalez
Family Engagement Plan
- Facilitate Family to-Family Support
- Establish a network of community resources
- Increase family participation in decision-making
- Equip families with tools to enhance and extend learning
- Provide ongoing professional development opportunities for educators
- Evaluate family engagement efforts and use results for continuous improvement
Facilitate Family to-Family Support
Component descriptor:
Inclusive, transparent communications allow school personnel to create a safe and respectful environment to promote supportive interaction between households.
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing:
- Pre-K Round-Up
- YES Prep Family Notes/Newsletters
- Back to school/Meet the teacher Events
- Open House
- Family Tours
- YES Fest
- Ready Rosie Family Workshops
- Literacy and Math Nights
- Scholastic Book Fair
- Week of Young Child Celebrations
Establish a network of community resources
Component descriptor:
YESPrep Public Schools will build strategic partnerships with community organizations to leverage community resources for caregivers through the community resources handbook, and ongoing district-wide events.
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing:
- Brighter Bites
- Legacy Community Health Clinics
- Student and Family Services
- Student Support Counselors
- Healthy Summer Meals for Kids
Increase family participation in decision-making
Component descriptor:
Throughout the year, participation in district and school-wide decision-making empowers caregivers as their child’s first teacher and advocate.
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing:
- Possip Family Surveys
- Campus Improvement Plan Committee
- Title 1 Meetings
- YES Prep Family Association
- PTA Participation Meetings
Equip families with tools to enhance and extend learning
Component descriptor:
Caregivers have multiple opportunities to learn about student progress and ways to support success at home. Caregivers also have personal extended learning opportunities
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing:
- CIRCLE Parent Reports
- Teacher Conference Days
- Ready Rosie
- Introduction to Clever
- Imagine learning, Imagine Math, and Imagine Espanol
- Class Dojo
- 1-1 Technology device issued to students
Provide ongoing professional development opportunities for educators
Component descriptor:
Pre-kindergarten teaching staff participate in professional development opportunities to support and use culturally diverse, culturally relevant, and culturally responsive family engagement strategies and enhance instruction.
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing:
- District Wide Professional Development (PD)
- Early Childhood PD/Support to Campus Administrators
- Ready Rosie
- PK Guideline Training
- CIRCLE Progress Monitoring PreK Assessment Training
Evaluate family engagement efforts and use results for continuous improvement
Component descriptor:
Ongoing campus/district needs assessment cycle will seek input to improve the quality of instruction, climate, and family engagement
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing:
- Possip Family Surveys
- TEA Self-Evaluation Tool
- Ready Rosie Participation Data
- Student Performance Data
- Student CIRCLE Data
Transition Activities:
- Provide school tours/visits with local childcare providers and the community to encourage smooth transitions to kindergarten
- Create a transition plan to support children and families moving from one grade to the next grade level
- Provide summer programming- Camp CHISPAS to increase English Language proficiency to our English Learners
Linguistic & Culturally Inclusive Practices:
- Provide ongoing professional development to educators on culturally responsive topics with an early childhood focus
- Use home languages for all communications sent to families
- Provide translators and interpreters during all events
YES Prep Public Schools HQPK Family Engagement Plan is one of the strategies our district uses to guide collaborative success. The positive relationships between staff and families that YES prep Public Schools promotes through the HQPK Family Engagement plan, help build a shared understanding of how we can work together to ensure every child will reach their full potential, from birth to kindergarten and beyond.
The YES Prep Elementary Academics team uses a self-assessment tool provided by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to identify and evaluate areas of need and areas of growth. The results then determine the district’s pathway for improvement, to continue providing high-quality education for our pre-K students.
The results can be found by clicking on the resource below.You can also view the PDF by clicking here.
