Title I

Parent Information

Title I - Parent Information

The Title I Summer Bridge Program that was offered for the SY2023-2024 concluded on Thursday, August 10, 2023. Our students who participated in the program have demonstrated growth in their content area of Mathematics/English Language Arts. Title I Schoolwide letters for the SY2023-2024 will be emailed on August 28, 2023 to the parents/guardians of 9-12 grade students. Letters will highlight the district's ELA and mathematics enrichment opportunities for our students during SY2023-2024.

For further information you may contact Brian Shakespeare, the District ESEA-NCLB Project Director, at (856) 468-1445 ext. 2228 or by email at bshakespeare@gcecnj.org .

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in New Jersey

Title I School/Family/Community Involvement

Please review the policies & documents below.

Policy 2415: Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy 2415.02: Title I Fiscal Responsibilities

Policy 2415.04: Title I District-Wide Parental Involvement

Policy 2415.05: Pupil Surveys, Analysis and/or Evaluations

Policy 2415.06: Unsafe School Choice Option

Policy 9230: Parental Responsibilities

Title I Letter

Title I School-Parent Compact

Required

Each school receiving funds under Title I, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) must develop a written school-parent compact jointly with parents for all children participating in Title I, Part A activities, services, and programs. That compact is part of the school’s written parental involvement policy developed by the school and parents under section 1118(b) of the ESSA. The compact must outline how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student academic 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.

The Gloucester County Institute of Technology (GCIT) and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (participating children), agree that this compact outlines how the parents, the entire school staff, and the students will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.

This school-parent compact is in effect during school year 2023-24.

REQUIRED SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT REVISIONS

School Responsibilities:

The Gloucester County Institute of Technology will:

1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instructions in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows:

POLICY 2230 – Curriculum Guides (M)

The Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Assessment shall oversee development of curriculum guides for every course and area of study for every grade level. Each guide shall contain objectives for concepts and skills to be taught and attitudes to be developed; suggested materials and activities designed to achieve all of these; and methods of evaluation and assessment used to determine which learning objectives have been met. Curriculum guides shall include all requirements of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.

Teachers shall use the guides as the core of their instructional planning. It shall be the responsibility of the Building Principal to ensure that curriculum guides are being followed.

A copy of each guide in use shall be kept on file in the school office. Such guides shall be available for public inspection.

Because curriculum guides are the means of implementing instruction in courses adopted by the Board as the curriculum of the district, the Board shall approve any new curriculum guides or any revision to an existing guide before they are put into effect.

N.J.S.A. 18A:33-1
Adopted: 19 August 2009

2. Hold parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement. Specifically, those conferences will be held:

GCIT will hold two evening “meet the teachers” events a year. They are scheduled at the beginning of each semester.

3. Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress. Specifically, the school will provide reports as follows:

The system of reporting pupil progress shall include written reports, electronic communication, pupil-teacher conferences, and parent/guardian-teacher conferences, whenever possible.

Reports of pupil progress will:

Use various methods of reporting;
Ensure that both pupil and parent/guardian receive ample warning of a pending grade of “failure” or one that would adversely affect the pupil’s status;
Specify the issuance of report cards at intervals of not less than four times during the school year and issuance of deficiency notices as required during the school year; and
Ensure the continual review and improvement of methods of reporting pupil progress to parents/guardians and involve pupils, staff and parents/guardians in that review.

4. Provide parents reasonable access to staff. Specifically, staff will be available for consultation with parents as follows:

Teachers are available throughout the day via email and voicemail to discuss issues and concerns. Conferences and meetings may also be scheduled by contacting the principal’s office.

5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and to observe classroom activities, as follows:

Visitation to any GCIT program is by appointment only. Appointments will be made by calling the Principal or designee. The Principal reserves the right to refuse a request for visitation if, in his/her opinion, the visit would be disruptive to the educational process. The sign in/out (visitor pass) procedure shall be adhered to for all visitations.

All visitors shall be required to sign in at the reception desk upon entering the building. A “visitor” is anyone other than a GCIT pupil or a staff member. Visitors may not consult with the teaching staff or pupils during class time without the Principal’s permission.

All visitors to the school must obey regulations prohibiting smoking and any other regulations designed to ensure orderly operation of the school. All persons violating this policy shall be considered “disorderly persons” and subject to appropriate action.

Parent Responsibilities:

We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:

Monitor attendance.
Monitor assignments.
Encourage use of supplemental resources and services.
Volunteer
Participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’s education.
Promote positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
Stay informed about my child’s education and communicate with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and respond, as appropriate.
Serve, to the extent possible, on policy advisory groups, such as being the Title I, Part A parent representative on the School Improvement Team, the Title I Policy Advisory Committee, the District-wide Policy Advisory Council, the State’s Committee of Practitioners, the School Support Team or other school advisory or policy groups.

Additional Optional Provisions:

Student Responsibilities:

We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic achievement and achieve the State’s high standards. Specifically, we will:

Attend class regularly.
Be responsible for my learning.
Complete assignments and ask for help when needed.
Commit to reading beyond the school day.
Be respectful of staff and students.
Actively participate in class.
Seek help and assistance from staff.
Take ownership of my learning.

Additional Required School Responsibilities:

The Gloucester County Institute of Technology will:

Involve parents in the planning, review, and improvement of the school’s parental involvement policy, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.
Involve parents in the joint development of any school wide program plan, in an organized, ongoing, and timely way.
Hold an annual meeting to inform parents of the school’s participation in Title I, Part A programs, and to explain the Title I, Part A requirements, and the right of parents to be involved in Title I, Part A programs. The school will convene the meeting at a convenient time to parents, and will offer a flexible number of additional parental involvement meetings, such as in the morning or evening, so that as many parents as possible are able to attend. The school will invite to the meeting parents of children participating in Title I, Part A programs (participating students) and will encourage them to attend.
Provide information to parents of participating students in an understandable and uniform format, including alternative formats upon the request of parents with disabilities, and, to the extent practicable, in a language that parents can understand.
Provide to parents of participating children information in a timely manner about Title I, Part A programs that includes a description and explanation of the school’s curriculum, the forms of academic assessment used to measure children’s progress, and the proficiency levels students are expected to meet.
6. On the request of parents, provide opportunities for regular meetings for parents to formulate suggestions, and to participate, as appropriate, in decisions about the education of their children. The school will respond to any such suggestions as soon as practicably possible.
Provide to each parent an individual student report about the performance of their child on the State assessment in at least math, language arts and reading.
Provide each parent timely notice when their child has been assigned or has been taught for four (4) or more consecutive weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified within the meaning of the term in section 200.56 or the Title I Final Regulations (67 Fed. Reg. 71710, December 2, 2002).

SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT SELECTION OF SERVICES

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Meetings & Agendas

Certified Coach

Helen Morris is a Columbia University Certified Coach who will be offering confidential, one-on-one wellness coaching sessions throughout the year. The goal of these sessions is to help you create strategies to address your unique situation. As we continue to negotiate changing rules, expectations and goals, we are offering coaching for you or you and your child together. If you would like your child to participate, a parent or guardian must be present. Parents/guardians will have the opportunity to schedule a coaching session via a link that will be distributed through district email.

Coaching is a partnership designed to help you focus on your unique immediate and long-term issues, needs and challenges.

Through the coaching process you will:

Clarify goals: identify what success will look like and what might get in your way
Explore options: generate new thinking, insights, perspectives and mindsets
Create an action plan: implement strategies to confidently navigate forward while nurturing yourself and your family.

If you have any questions, please contact Helen directly at hmorris@gcecnj.org.

Social & Emotional Learning

Rocky is a mindfulness and SEL teacher, coach, and mentor working with schools, athletes, and business professionals. His purpose is to cultivate self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-mastery for our overall development in life performance, wellbeing, interpersonal and social growth. He has an extensive background in mindfulness, for years studying under and working alongside Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant’s mindfulness and performance expert, George Mumford. He’s also been trained through the CASEL framework, University of Pennsylvania Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, ACE Behavioral Change Specialist and Health Coaching certifications, Center for Adolescent Studies Advanced Trauma-Informed Care for Professionals Working with Youth and Teaching Mindfulness to Teens among others. Rocky is a married husband and father of three, born and raised in South Jersey.

Summer Bridge Program

GCIT School Climate and Culture Surveys

PanoramaResults-StudentSchoolClimateandCultureSurveySpring2023.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSchoolClimateandCultureSurveySpring2023.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSchoolClimateandCultureSurveySpring2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall2021.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSchoolClimateandCultureSurveySpring2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall.pdf

PanoramaResults-CommunitySchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall2021.pdf

PanoramaResults-CommunitySchoolClimateandCultureSurveySpring2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-CommunitySchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSchoolClimateandCultureSurveyFall2021.pdf

GCIT Social & Emotional Learning Surveys

PanoramaResults-TeacherSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveySpring2023.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveySpring2023.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveyFall2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveyFall2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveySpring2022.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveyFall2021.pdf

PanoramaResults-TeacherSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveyFall.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveySpring2022.pdf

GCITTeacherMeasures-SocialandEmotionalLearningSurvey-FallSY2019-20.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentDistanceLearningandWellBeing-SELSurvey1.pdf

GCITStudent-SocialandEmotionalLearningSurvey-FallSY2019-20.pdf

PanoramaResults-StudentSocialandEmotionalLearningSurveyFall2021.pdf

Mental Health & Wellness

Recognizing that students and parents may be experiencing additional stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic, GCIT will offer Mental Health & Wellness resources for students with no out-of-pocket expenses to our families. GCIT will cover at least 5 mental health sessions for our students with no out-of-pocket expenses to our families. Continuation of services beyond 5 sessions will need to be reviewed for additional funding.

Center for Family Guidance, PC provides behavioral health services to compassionately support health and well-being across the continuum of care. CFG will offer students, families, and staff a wide range of treatment options including individual, couples, family counseling, fit for duty evaluations and medication management. Christina D’Antoni is a licensed Clinical Social Worker who has significant experience providing behavioral health services to students, families, and staff in multiple school settings. All services are provided via a secure HIPAA video platform in the comfort of your own home. Please email GCITintake@cfgpc.com to schedule an appointment.

Nelson Counseling provides individual and family counseling services to students and families. These services are designed to help students achieve their academic, social, and personal goals by providing them with clinical counseling, emotional support, guidance, and advice. The primary role of counseling services is to help students navigate the various challenges that they may encounter during their academic journey. This includes helping students develop healthy coping mechanisms to deal with stress, anxiety, and other emotional issues. To schedule an appointment, complete the contact form on their website at https://www.nelsoncounseling.org/contact-6.

Dr. Whitney Supernavage, a board-certified, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner will offer student support for mental health and wellness. GCIT will cover at least 5 mental health sessions for our students with no out-of-pocket expenses to our families. Continuation of services beyond 5 sessions will need to be reviewed for additional funding. For more information and/or to schedule an appointment for your child, visit her website at https://www.wlspsychiatry.com/.

Kim Finnie and Julie Ferdas, New Jersey Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW) will offer student supports for mental health and wellness. Bridge to Balance Inc. provides individuals and families with services that focus on helping them cultivate a sense of balance and wellness in their lives. Their practice offers a 10-week group for teens that teaches the foundations of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, including Mindfulness Skills, Distress Tolerance Skill, Emotional Regulation Skills and Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills. Teens will learn the tools to manage emotions and relationships effectively. For more information and/or to schedule an appointment for your child, visit their website at https://bridge2balance.com/.

Helen Morris, a Columbia University, certified coach consultant will offer virtual sessions to our parents/guardians. Parents/guardians will have the opportunity to schedule a personalized coaching session via a link that will distributed through district email. The coaching session will focus on your unique need that would make a meaningful difference in how you navigate forward.

These virtual sessions are grant-funded & supported by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER II) and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

For more information, kindly contact Helen Morris at hmorris@gcecnj.org.

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