Parents, our school staff is honored to work with you and your child to provide every opportunity for a successful school year.  We welcome your input at Cleveland Elementary through our Parental Involvement activities, our PTO, our Volunteer Program, the School Improvement process, and other school activities.  Please feel free to contact our school office with your ideas and concerns.  We welcome and encourage your attendance at all student events and activities throughout the school year and encourage your active involvement in all aspects of our schoolwide program.

The links below, along with other links on our school website such as the SOL Link, will be helpful in supporting your child's learning.  You will also find information about Title I as well as notes of explanation concerning some of the school's procedures.

• 2011-2012 Parental Involvement Plan

• 2011-2012 School-Parent Compact

• What is Title 1?

• Title I Parent's Right to Know Policies

• Title 1, Part A Guidelines

• Title 1 Partnership PowerPoint

Parents, you may check out materials from the library's Parent Resource Center to work with your child at home.  The "What's a Parent to Do?" series by Peggy Adkins is one of the parenting helps available for checkout.

• Conduct Code for Russell County Public Schools

• Student Handbook (Cleveland Elementary)

• http://www.doe.virginia.gov  (This is the Virginia Department of Education site.)

• http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/index.shtml  This site provides important information for parents and teachers about the Standards of Learning and Testing for Virginia Public Schools.  To access the information for the topics listed below, open the site and click on each academic subject listed on the right side of that webpage.
  
  You will find the following documents on the above website:

--The Standards of Learning (SOL) that are currently in effect for Virginia Public Schools

--The Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework, which defines the content knowledge, skills, and understandings that are measured by the Standards of Learning tests.

--The Standards of Learning Test Blueprints, which serve as a guide to teachers, parents, and students in that they show Standards of Learning covered by a test, reporting categories of test items, number of test items, and general information about how the test questions are constructed.

--The Latest Released Tests from the previous year, which can be used for review

--The Enhanced Scope and Sequence , which is a resource to help teachers align their classroom instruction with the content found in the Standards of Learning.
 

• http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/released_tests/index.shtml   (All Released SOL Tests that may be used for review can be found at this site.)

• Education News Parents Can Use, a television series about ways to ensure children’s educational success.  The third Tuesday of each month during the school year, Education News provides parents with the tools and information they need to be effectively involved in their children’s learning.  [For information on how to register visit the following URL and go to FAQs: http://www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv/index.html.]

• The Achiever, a biweekly electronic newsletter that provides information, events and announcements about No Child Left Behind.  For other newsletters and journals from ED visit: http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/index.html

• The Virginia Community Policing Institute offers "Mousetrap: Protecting America's Children from Online Predators," an interactive CD to help parents stay informed about the Internet and potential dangers online at http://www.vcpionline.org/mousetrap.asp

• GetNetWise allows parents to search or browse for Internet safety products, including those that filter explicit or violent content, monitor a child's Internet access, or limit time online.  http://kids.getnetwise.org

• The Center for Safe and Responsible Internet use offers educational resources on topics from Internet safety to cyberbullying at http://csriu.org

• A guidance counselor is at the school each Friday from 8:30-3:30.  Also, counselors are available through the Cumberland Mountain Agency as needed.  Please contact our school office if you have concerns about counseling.

• Our school would like to more effectively address the teaching of fine arts--music, visual arts, dance, speech/drama.  If you are a musician, an artist, or work in dance or drama and would like to participate in our Volunteer Program as an instructor in music, art, dance, or drama, please contact our school office.

• Concerning the teaching of foreign language and career/vocational courses...grade-appropriate foreign language instruction and career/vocational awareness are incorporated in our K-7 classroom instruction and in the After-School Program and Summer School classes, when possible.  Formal courses in foreign language and career/vocational instruction are taught at the high school level.

• Health classes are incorporated into our physical education program.  The physical education teacher schedules classes in health instruction throughout the year.  For more information on the P.E./Health class scheduling, contact Jennifer Woodlief at the school before 8:30 or after 3:30.