Title 1 Annual Meeting 2025-2026

You are a part of an awesome school that focuses on supporting students by engaging their families in the education process. Our goal is to help increase student achievement by connecting home and school.

1. Click the button below to Sign In and complete the Evaluation
2. What is a Title 1 School?
3. Title 1 Budget
4. Title 1 Requirements/Professional Qualifications/Schoolwide Program
5. School Assessments
6. District and School Family Engagement Policy
7. School-Family Compacts
8. Parent Involvement Opportunities
9. Contact us!

As a Title 1 Distinguished School, the goal is to provide instructional services and activities which support students in meeting the state's challenging performance standards.

Title 1 of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides financial assistance to state and local education agencies to meet the needs of children based on the number of free and reduced lunch counts.

Title 1 is a school wide program with a purpose to improve the entire educational program at RPS. This means that all enrolled students are eligible for and benefit from Title 1 services, not just those that qualify for free/reduced meals. By law, the school system will ensure that strong strategies are in place to build capacity in parents as partners, and to support parents in attaining high student achievement in class, and at home.

As a District in conjunction with federal guidelines, a percentage (1% Set-Aside) of our Title 1 money is allocated to have a District level Parent and Family Engagement Coordinator. Title 1 funding also provides:

• smaller classes or special instructional spaces
• additional teachers and paraprofessionals
• opportunities for professional development for school staff
• a variety of supplementary teaching methods
• an individualized program for students
• additional teaching materials which supplement their regular instruction
• technology
• parent and family engagement in children's' education

At RPS, we use our Title 1 funds to provide:

• media center paraprofessional for students
• academic coach and instructional supplies for teachers
• parent involvement coordinator and parent resource room for parents

As a Title 1 school, we must meet federal regulations related to teacher qualifications as defined by ESEA. These regulations allow you to learn more about your child's teachers training and credentials. All teachers at RPS are highly qualified in the content area they are teaching. At any time, you may ask:

• whether the teacher met state qualifications and certification requirements for the grade level and subject being taught.
• whether the teacher received and emergency or conditional certificate through which state qualifications were waived
• what undergraduate or graduate degrees the teacher holds
• you may also ask whether your child received help form a paraprofessional, and information about their qualifications

At Ringgold Primary, our students are assessed several times a year to ensure they are learning the state adopted standards from the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Results from the various assessments are used to identify those students who are not mastering the standards and to provide teachers with feedback about instruction. As a whole, the data gathered from these tests help our school identify our strengths and our weaknesses so that we can establish priorities and goals in planning our educational programs.

Currently, RPS administers the following assessments:

• GKIDs for Kindergarten
• NWEA MAP Math for 1-2
• NWEA MAP Reading & Amira Fluency for K-2

For more information about the MAP assessments visit https://www.nwea.org/

Our curriculum and instruction supports evidence-based instructional practices and strategies for differentiated, innovative, and effective teaching and learning based on the state-adopted standards in support of a balanced curriculum for the whole child. This year we are using:

• Heggerty, UFLI, and Benchmark Advance for English Language Arts
• GaDOE Units for Math

You can access your students grades, attendance, and reports on the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. If you need help creating an account or using the Parent Portal, please click HERE for more information.

For more information about the curriculum standards visit https://case.georgiastandards.org/

RPS Family Engagement Policy 2025-2026

District Family Engagement Policy 2025-2026

*links also access translated versions

Policies are jointly developed with parents to guide what we do in parent & family engagement. We welcome your recommendations on these policies at any time. Policies will be discussed at the Fall and Spring Parent Advisory Council Meetings and are available all year on our website and in the Family Resource Room.

You can review these using the link posted above.

Each Title 1 school jointly develops, through meaningful consultation with parents, a family-school compact that outlines how families and schools 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. (This agreement is now included in the school's Parent and Family Engagement Policy on pages 2-3.)

You can view the School Family Compact anytime on our school's website or in the Family Resource Room.

Parental involvement means that participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities, ensuring that:

• parents play a integral role in assisting their child's learning
• parents are encouraged to be actively involved in their child's education
• parents are full partners in their child's education and are included in decision making to assist in the education of their child
• policies are jointly developed with parents

Getting involved is easy!

• Volunteer in the Family Resource Room anytime during school hours. Help make copies, laminate items, and assist the teachers in various ways.
• Sign up to help at a special school events such as the Booster Fun Run fundraiser and PBIS celebrations.
• Plan to attend the Title 1 Parent Advisory Council (PAC) Meetings and parent workshops held by the Parent Involvement Coordinator.
• Stay connected to Class Dojo for invites, information, and sign ups.
• Watch for the monthly school newsletter that is sent digitally at the beginning of every month.
• Watch for a calendar of events to come home in your child's folder every 2 months.
• Attend school curriculum nights such as STEAM Night in the Fall and Math & Reading Game Night in the Spring.

• Stay up to date with your teacher's Class Dojo and classroom newsletter.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences and FAST night meetings offered in the Fall and Spring

You can find out more by contacting the Parent Involvement Coordinator, Tracy Wilson, at twilson.rps@catoosa.k12.ga.us or visit the Family Resource Room!

Parents are always welcome to contact their child's teacher or administrators through the school website (www.rps.catoosa.k12.ga.us), email, written notes, and Class Dojo.

Parents should bring Title 1 complaints to Gina Hayes, CCPS Title 1 Coordinator at 706-965-2297 or ghayes@catoosa.k12.ga.us

School complaints can be brought to Mrs. Hood, RPS Principal.

Whitney Hood, Principal: whood@catoosa.k12.ga.us

Michele Cribb, Vice Principal: mcribb@catoosa.k12.ga.us

Jamie Cole, Academic Coach: jcole.rps@catoosa.k12.ga.us

Ringgold Primary School

340 Evitt Lane, Ringgold, GA 30736

PH: 706-937-5437

I appreciate your participation and support at RPS!!

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Tracy Wilson, Parent Involvement Coordinator

twilson.rps@catoosa.k12.ga.us