Dear Parent/Guardian:

We value your role in working to help your child achieve academic success. The following is an outline of some of the ways you and school staff can build and maintain a partnership to share the responsibility for supporting your child’s learning.

School’s Responsibility:

• Provide students high-quality curriculum, learning materials and instruction.
• Provide you with assistance to understand:
  • academic achievement standards and assessments, and
  • how to monitor your child’s progress, including how to use PowerSchool.
• Provide opportunities for ongoing communication between you and your child’s teachers through, at a minimum:
  • annual parent-teacher conferences,
  • frequent reports regarding your child’s progress, and
  • opportunities to talk with staff, volunteer in class, and observe classroom activities.
• Contact information, best contact method (email/text/phone) for school staff and a return communication within 24 hours or by next work-day.

Parent/Family Responsibility:

• Encourage your child to attend school regularly and on time.
• Encourage your child to show positive school behavior.
• Review your child’s homework.
• Monitor screen time and encourage positive use of your child’s extracurricular time.
• Volunteer in your child’s school and/or classroom if time or schedule allows.
• Attend parent-teacher conferences and participate, when appropriate, in decisions relating to the education of your child.
• Call the teacher or principal when you have concerns or notice something that needs to be addressed or celebrated.

Please review this School-Parent Compact with your child. This document may be discussed during a parent-teacher conference.

Thank you for your support and involvement with your child’s education. Please contact the person listed below for more information.

Name: Nicole Heintzelman                       Telephone number:  406-268-7015

Title: Principal                                           Email Address: nicole_heintzelman@gfps.k12.mt.us