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Parents' Rights
The most recent law that affects TITLE I is the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" {Public Law 107-110, Section 114(b) (1) (E)}. The law requires:
- School districts have a written policy regarding parental involvement
- Parents be involved in the design, operation and evaluation of TITLE I
- Parents be consulted about home activities and be trained to help instruct their children
- Bluebonnet Intermediate School has a cop of the law on file for you to consult
Title I
The purpose of Title I, Part A is to ensure that all children, particularly low-acheiving children in the highest-poverty school, have a fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach at a minimum proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.
Parents' Responsibilities
- Send your child to school every day, well rested and fed, with a positive comment about him/her.
- Take an active interest in your child's schooling and let your child know how much you care about learning. Find out what happened at school each day and how your child felt about it.
- Provide an area in your home where your child can keep his/her school things and if possible, where he/she can do school work with continued interruptions.
- Show pride in your child's work and display it in special places in your home.
Students' Responsibilities
- Come to school on a daily basis.
- Be responsible for self and show respect toward your peers.
- Listen and respect your teachers at all times.
- Complete class work, group work, and homework
- Be a positive role model
- Read daily for 20-30 minutes
- Set high expectations for yourself to be the BEST
Teacher Responsibilities
- Maintain high expectations for every child to learn and achieve
- Treat all children and families with respect
- Welcome every family into your classroom and make them feel comfortable in the school
- Maintain a positive attitude toward students and teaching
- Establish and maintain an open two-way communication with parents and offer family members:
- Contact the parents of all children regularly
- Establish regular times when parents can contact you
- Provide a safe, supportive, caring learning environment
- NEVER give up on any child!!
Administrators' Responsibilities
- Provide education leadership for school personnel, students, parents and community members
- Set the tone for the school climate as positive, friendly, open to the community and serving all children equally
- Set high expectations
Bluebonnet's Parental Involvement / Title I Programs
Parental involvement is the key to Bluebonnet student's success. At Bluebonnet, we have parents that are caring and supportive of our school's programs. Parent involvement benefits the student, school, and teacher, thus creating a stronger community.
Special Recognition
Special recognition activities have a positive effect on student academic performance. Special recognition includes:
- Perfect Attendance Awards
- A & B Honor Roll
- Citizenship Awards
- K4, K5 and 5th Grade Graduation
- ABBIT
- Family of the Six Weeks
- Spelling Bee
- Math, Reading, Science and Spelling Awards
- Principal's Award
- Accelerated Reading Prizes
- Semester Awards Assemblies
- Perfect Attendance / Citizenship Luncheon
High Quality Curriculum / Instructional Programs
We provide many educational opportunities for our students to acquire the knowledge and skills contained in the state content standards (TEKS) Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, as well as to meet the performance standards, (TAKS) Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.
- Full Day Pre-Kindergarten ( 1 class )
- Full Day Kindergarten ( 2 classes )
- Accelerated Reading Program
- 4th Grade ( 8 classes )
- 5th Grade ( 7 classes )
- Bilingual Program
- Special Education Program
- Content Mastery Lab
- Music
- Physical Education
- Gifted and Talented Program ( Pegasus )
- Dyslexia Program
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters Mentor Program
- Computer Labs
- Mrs. Oz - Science Program
- Speech Program
- Counseling
- Extended Day Programs
- Reading is Fundamental Program
- Scholastic Book Fair
- Career Day
- Math Academy - 5th Grade
- Reading Academy - Kindergarten
- Computer Technology - (School-wide)
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