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Title I

What is Title I?

Title I is a federally funded grant designed to help schools meet the needs of all students and to provide resources to help improve educational success for families.

Every school that receives Title I funds has a Family-School Compact and a Parent and Family Engagement School Policy. Schools that receive Title I funds also host events to provide family engagement and involvement opportunities.

More information on the Title I program can be found on the PWCS Title I webpage.

Dale City ES Title I Staff Contact Information

Name: Kim Mesteryhazy and Cassandra Jenkins
Role: Title I Math / Title I Reading
Email: [email protected] / [email protected] 
Phone Number: 703-670-2208

Title I Family-School Compact

Vision

Inspiring Excellence Every Day

Mission

Every Child, Every Day, Whatever It Takes

Student Agreement

  • I will come to school ready to learn.
  • I will be polite, responsible, and caring.
  • I will be trustworthy.
  • I will do my best - 100%.
  • I will ask questions.
  • I will be a good listener and obsever.

Family/Parent Agreement

  • We will become involved at Dale City.
  • We will read to our children and help them with homework.
  • We will spend quality time together.
  • We will ask how our child's day went.
  • We will teach good habits such as appropriate bed times and manners.
  • We will establish rules and routines at home.

Teachers/Staff Agreement

  • We will communicate freqently with parents.
  • We will invite parents to visit Dale City and participate in confrences, programs, and committees.
  • we will offer workshops for parents on reading and mathmatics strategies to help students be successful in school and at home.
  • We will attend quality professional development that is designed to help us learn best teaching practices.
  • We will use well-defined standards of proformance assessments.
  • Instruction will be frequent, rigorous, and entirely focused on student improvement.
  • We will work with teams of teachers to use data diagnostically at freqent intervals to assess each student's learning and will communicate findings to parents.

Title I Parent and Family Engagement School Policy

Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) Title I program is established to improve student achievement so that every student will graduate on time with the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary to create a thriving future for themselves and their community.

Dale City Elementary School will ensure effective involvement of families and will support a partnership among the school, parents, guardians, and community to improve student achievement in the following ways: 

School Family Engagement Policy

  • Review the Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy which is jointly developed and distributed to parents.
  • Provide all parents with information about the schools’ participation in Title I at the Annual Meeting and inform parents of their right to be involved.
  • Invite and encourage all parents to attend all Title I Family meetings and events. Inform parents that the school may provide support for them to attend meetings.
  • Involve family participation in the planning, review, and improvement of the schools’ Title I Schoolwide/Continuous Improvement Plan
  • Provide parents with information about the Title I program, the curriculum, academic assessments, and students’ expected proficiency levels.
  • Notify the PWCS Title I Office if the Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy is not satisfactory to the parents of participating children. 

Shared Responsibilities for High Student Achievement

  • Invite parents to volunteer, observe, and/or participate in their child’s class(es) and school.
  • Include a schedule for parent-teacher conferences and progress reports.
  • Invite parents to participate in events related to academics.

Building Capacity for Engagement

  • Assist parents to understand the state’s academic content, achievement standards, and assessments.
  • Communicate with families on a regular basis regarding their child’s progress in school; including school performance information and student assessment results.
  • Provide materials and training to help parents support their children’s academic progress.
  • Develop, in consultation with families, a Family-School Compact, stating how the school and families will share the responsibility for high student performance. Review the Family-School Compact annually with families and school staff.
  • Educate teachers, pupil services personnel, principals, and other staff, with the assistance of parents, in the value and utility of contributions of parents, and how to communicate and work with parents as equal partners.
  • Coordinate and integrate parent and family engagement programs and activities with other federal and state programs supporting preschool, multilingual students, and students with disabilities.
  • Ensure that information related to school and parent programs, meetings, and other activities is sent to parents in a format that is practicable and in a language that parents can understand.
  • Distribute annual parent surveys encouraging parents to respond to additional support needed to participate in parent and family engagement.
  • Provide opportunities to participate in decision-making at Parent Advisory Council meetings, Parent Teacher Organization meetings, and meetings related to Title I program planning.

Accessibility

  • Provide opportunities for the participation of parents with limited English proficiency and parents with disabilities, in a format that is practicable and in a language that parents can understand.

Important Dates and Upcoming Title I Events

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Elementary Schools

  • November 3, 2025
  • January 26, 2026

Middle Schools and High Schools       

  • Touch base days will be scheduled by schools

Last Day of Grading Periods

  • Aug. 18th-Oct 31st 1st quarter
  • Nov. 5th-Jan. 22nd- 2nd Quarter
  • Jan. 27th-March 27th  3rd Quarter
  • April 17th-June 12th  4th Quarter

Title I Parent & Family Engagement Events (additional events may be added)

  • Title 1 Family Engagement
  • September 25th -Annual Title 1 meeting- 
  • November 13th-Camping with Dale City Tigers-Literacy Night- 
  • Dec.4th- Winter Wonderland Writing 4th Grade- 
  • February 12-Bedtime stories- Pajama night
  • April 23-Neon lights with books and math 
  • These dates are subject to change...

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