Welcome to Gurdon High School's Parent and Family Virtual Resource Center. Here you will find curated resources intended to help our students, their parents, and their families with daily needs.

Gurdon High School recognizes that parents, families, and the community at large impact the success of students and the personnel working with those students.

 

We invite our various stakeholders to navigate this portion of our website, to access the resources, to suggest improvements, and to help us to meet the needs of all stakeholders for the benefit of our students.

• GHS School Engagement Survey

• GPSD Parent Family and Community Volunteers during COVID-19 (form not currently active)

Students and families can access the Home Access Center (HAC) for grades, communication, etc. using the following link...

https://hac20.esp.k12.ar.us/HomeAccess20/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fHomeAccess20%2f

• Accessing Google Classroom

• How to Join a Google Classroom

• Turning in Assignments in Google Classroom

• How to Unsubmit/Submit Work in Google Classroom

As the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) seeks to support schools and districts in planning efforts for engaging families and community, these documents serve as tools for considering each of the components required by State and Federal regulations.

The way in which each school or district responds to each section and its components is to be determined by the committee members and leadership team.

The district shall submit its plan to ADE and shall also post it to the district website by August 1st each year.

Our planning documents are found in the State-Required Section of our website found here.

Our school receives federal funds for programs that are part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended (2015). Throughout the school year, we will continue to provide you with important information about this law and your child's education. Based on current education law, teachers must have earned State certification and licensure. State certification and licensure is the training required to be a teacher.

We are very proud of our teachers and feel they are ready for the coming school year. We are prepared to give your child a high- quality education. You have the right to request information about the professional qualifications of your child’s teacher(s) or paraprofessional(s). A paraprofessional provides academic or other support for students under the direct supervision of a teacher. If you request this information, the district or school will provide you with the following as soon as possible:

• if the teacher has met State certification and licensing requirements for the grade levels and subjects for which the teacher provides

  instruction;

• if state certification and licensing requirements have been waived (is not being required at this time) for the teacher under emergency

  or other temporary status;

• if the teacher is teaching in the field of discipline for which they are certified or licensed;

• if the teacher has met State-approved or State-recognized certification, licensing, registration, or other comparable requirements. These requirements apply to the professional discipline in which the teacher is working and may include providing English language instruction to English learners, special education or related services to students with disabilities, or both; and

• if your child is receiving Title I or Special Education services from paraprofessionals, his or her qualifications.

Our staff are committed to helping your child develop the social, academic and critical thinking he or she needs to succeed in school and beyond. That commitment includes making sure that all of our teachers and paraprofessionals are highly skilled.

If you would like to request information about your child’s teacher(s) or paraprofessional(s), or if you have any questions about your child’s assignment to a teacher or paraprofessional, please use this form to contact our campus for more information.

• Communication: Informing families of information in a language they can understand about any program, service, or activity.

  1. TransACT ParentNotices include ESSA Parent Notifications and GenEd Parent Notifications. DESE provides this site free of charge to all public/charter school, Education Service Cooperative, and DESE personnel in Arkansas.

     Gurdon's subscription gives our personnel access to parent engagement guidance, as well as expertly written forms or notices that are required by your district, state or the federal government. The notices are already translated into ten priority languages by certified translators.

     Arkansas educators may go to the TransACT website and sign up using their district, ESC, or DESE assigned email address and a password of their own choosing.

• Trainings: Involve parents in the development of training for teachers, principals, and educators to improve the effectiveness of the training

• Literacy Training: Provide necessary literacy training from funds received under this part if the local educational agency has exhausted all other reasonably available sources of funding for such training.

• Expenses to Enable Participation: Pay reasonable and necessary expenses associated with local parental involvement activities, including transportation and child care costs, to enable parents to participate in school-related meetings and training sessions.

• Parent Leadership: Train parents to enhance the involvement of other parents.

• Flexible Options: Arrange school meetings at a variety of times, or conduct in-home conferences between teachers or other educators who work directly with participating children, with parents unable to attend conferences at school to maximize parental involvement and participation in their children’s education.

• Model Approaches: Adopt and implement model approaches to improving parent and family engagement.

• Parent Advisory Council: Establish a districtwide parent advisory council to provide advice on all matters related to parental involvement in Title I, Part A programs.

• Community and Business Roles: Develop appropriate roles for community-based organizations and businesses in parent and family engagement activities

• Miscellaneous