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Provo City School District

Timpanogos Elementary School

Last modified: March 7, 2025

Parent Family Compact

Academic Success

The Student Will:

  • Arrive at school on time, ready and motivated to learn
  • Take an active role in my learning
  • Know my present academic levels and set goals for growth with the help of my teacher

The Parent Will:

  • Support my children in their learning by:
    • Ensuring my child attends school regularly and on time (arrive by 8:15am)
    • Making sure my child gets adequate sleep
    • Limiting access to and time on electronic devices
    • Knowing my child’s present academic levels

The Teacher Will:

  • Provide high-quality, engaging curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables children to meet challenging State academic standards by:
    • Differentiating instruction for student needs
    • Teaching the Utah Core Standards using evidence-based curriculum
    • Conducting frequent assessment of learning
    • Providing feedback to students and parents on assignments, behavior, and assessments

The School Will:

  • Provide high-quality, engaging curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables children to meet challenging State academic standards by:
    • Ensuring there is a schedule for learning
    • Providing extensions and interventions
    • Conducting ongoing professional development

Engagement

The Student Will:

  • Be an active listener
  • Follow directions the first time
  • Add to the class lessons by asking questions and commenting appropriately
  • Complete and hand in assignments

The Parent Will:

  • Participate in decisions relating to the education of my children by:
    • Meeting my child’s teacher and attending scheduled conferences
    • Contacting the school with questions or concerns
  • Support my child with a positive use of extracurricular time by:
    • Establishing a distraction-free place and time for assisting my child with assignments

The Teacher Will:

  • Provide data, materials, instructions, and opportunities that engage every student and family in student success. Examples include:
    • Teaching to the best of my abilities
    • Providing grade-level activities
    • Communicating via email and Remind
    • Sharing Progress Reports

The School Will:

  • Provide data, materials, instructions, and opportunities that engage families in student success. Examples include:
    • Annual Title I Meeting
    • School-Wide Engagement Nights
    • Preschool Story Time and Music Class
    • Family Reading Challenge
    • Strengthening Families Classes
    • New to the Country Classes for Families

Build Community

The Student Will:

  • Respect other students, adults, and their property by following our school-wide expectations called Tigers Give Me 5:
    • Be Respectful
    • Be Responsible
    • Be Safe
    • Be Kind
    • Be a Problem Solver
  • Participate in:
    • Kindness Club (5th)
    • Junior Hope Squad (6th)

The Parent Will:

  • Volunteer when possible by:
    • Joining the PTA
    • Attending School Community Council
    • Volunteering in my child’s classroom
    • Volunteering at school events
    • Attending school functions
    • Helping with the monthly Food Bank delivery

The Teacher Will:

  • Create a sense of community by:
    • Providing an emotionally and physically safe place for students to learn
    • Celebrating diversity while providing equity and inclusion for all students
    • Celebrating and communicating student growth and success
    • Being available for consultation a half hour before school and a half hour after school
    • Sharing ways that parents can volunteer

The School Will:

  • Create a sense of community by:
    • Using Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
    • Celebrating diversity while providing equity and inclusion for all students
    • Fostering a school culture of kindness
    • Being available for parent consultations
    • Helping students and parents know that they are valued members of our school team
    • Providing opportunities for parents to volunteer and participate in decision making
    • Helping families with their basic needs and connecting them with community resources

Home & School Communication Connection

The Student Will:

  • Read daily at home for 20 minutes
  • Tell my parents what I learned each day
  • Give my parents any papers I received at school
  • Give my teacher any communication from my parents

The Parent Will:

  • Support communication with the school by:
    • Sending back paperwork and forms, as needed
    • Returning phone calls and text notifications
    • Updating contact information (phone number, email, physical address, etc.) when it changes

The Teacher Will:

  • Engage in two-way, meaningful communication by:
    • Holding Parent-Teacher Conferences
    • Reporting student progress frequently
    • Reviewing the School-Parent-Family Compact
    • Communicating via email, phone calls, texts, or notes
    • Providing translation services as necessary

The School Will:

  • Engage in two-way, meaningful communication by:
    • Providing translation services as necessary
    • Communicating via email, phone calls, notes, texts, or Parent Link
    • Sending home four standards reports per year
    • Sharing principal’s videos on social media platforms and our website
    • Providing families with information on safe routes to school
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