Staff Qualifications:
LEA SPECIFIC LICENSES 2022-2023
This school employs individuals holding an LEA-specific educator license, license areas, and/or endorsem*nts.
The following designations or levels apply to educator licenses, license areas (i.e.-elementary, secondary, special education), and content endorsem*nts (i.e.-mathematics, music, Spanish, social studies):
Professional: The educator has completed an educator preparation program that includes content and pedagogical knowledge. This program may have been completed at a university or in an alternate pathway that was supported by school districts/charters and the Utah State Board of Education.
LEA-Specific: The educator has not completed an educator preparation program or may be currently enrolled in one.
Associate License: The Associate Educator License is for anyone who wants to teach in Utah but has not completed an educator preparation program but has met the content knowledge proficiency requirement or has a major in the subject area and is going through an educator preparation program (University-based or alternate program).
As of August 15, 2023 this school employs educators with the following types of license:
Professional License - 100% (all teachers)
Individual Educator licenses may be found and viewed at the following link.
SPRING CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – PARENT COMPACT
The staff and teachers of Spring City Elementary School, the parents of the students of the school, and the students agree that this compact outlines how all parties share the responsibility for improving student academic achievement. This compact also outlines the manner in which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership that will help all children achieve the State’s high standards.
This school-parent compact will be in effect during school year 2023-2024.
School Responsibilities
Spring City Elementary School will:
- Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning environment that enables the participating students to meet the State of Utah’s core academic achievement standards.
- Hold parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement.
- Provide parents with frequent reports on their children’s progress.
- Provide parents reasonable access to staff.
- Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class or school.
- Treat students, parents, and school community with civility and kindness.
Parent Responsibilities
We, as parents, will support our children’s learning in the following ways:
- Monitoring attendance.
- Making sure that homework is complete.
- Set limits on television viewing and video game playing or other devices (especially if it hinders school performance).
- Volunteering in my child’s classroom or school when feasible.
- Participating, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my children’s education.
- Promoting positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
- Staying informed about my child’s education and communication with the school by promptly reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and responding, as appropriate.
8. Serving, to the extent possible on the School’s Community Council, or other opportunities.
9. Treating teachers, staff, students and others with civility, kindness, and respect.
Student Responsibilities
We, as students, will share the responsibility to improve our academic performance and achieve the State’s high standards. We will:
- Do our homework every day and ask for help when needed.
- Read at least 20 minutes every day outside of school time.
- Give to our parents or the adult who is responsible for our welfare all notices and information received from the school every day.
- Be a positive member of the school community.
- Treat adults and other students with civility and kindness.
Spring City Elementary School Parent Involvement Policy
Spring City Elementary School will follow the parental policy guidelines to help create a positive environment welcoming to all parents and students. The School will distribute this policy to parents and students participating in the Title 1 program annually as this policy may be updated periodically.
Spring City Elementary will do the following:
• Convene an annual meeting such as Back to School Night, or other opportunity to explain the requirements and the rights of the parents to be involved in their child’s education.
• Encourage parents to become involved and communicate with the School Community Council if they have any unmet needs or concerns.
• Offer a flexible schedule of meetings so more parents might attend.
• Involve parents in an organized, ongoing, and timely way to plan, review, and
improve programs such as this Parental Involvement Policy, School Parent Compact, and other school-wide policies and practices.
• Communicate regularly with parents of students to provide the following:
-Timely information about their student’s education.
-Description and explanation of curriculum to be used.
-The forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress.
-Proficiency levels that students are expected to meet.
-Opportunities for decision-making related to the education of their
children.
-Provide materials and training on how parents can improve their child’s achievement, such as literacy and math ideas to implement at home.
-Educate school staff on how to build ties between home and school.
-Coordinating and integrating, as appropriate, parent involvement with local programs such as Head Start, Even Start, Parents as Teachers Program and public preschool programs.
-Ensuring, to the extent possible, that information sent home is in a language and form parents can understand
-Developing appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses and encouraging partnerships with local schools
• Respond to any parent suggestions as soon as feasibly possible.
• Provide parents with a copy of The Spring City Elementary School-Parent Compact, which is a written agreement of what the school and parents each agree to do to help students achieve.
• Provide such other reasonable support for parental involvement at parents’ request.
