News and Announcements

All stakeholders are cordially invited to our Parent Engagement Meeting. PLEASE return the bottom of the form being sent home with your child so that we can have your child's scores prepared for you when you get here.
We will be discussing the following topics:
• How to Interpret Your Child’s Milestones Assessment Scores
• Lexile Scores: how they’re used; how you can help your child at home to
improve his/her Lexile score
• Promotion Requirements for the 2024-2025 School Year
• Opportunities to give feedback on Title I documents (School Compact, Parent Engagement Plan, Use of Parent Engagement Funds, and Suggestions for how to Train Staff to work with Parents)

The meeting will be held at the location below:

October 15, 2024
5:00 PM
R.L. Norris Elementary School Media Center

The link below will take you to the recording:

https://app.screencastify.com/v3/watch/gUyfQ3zdsH5XYYdBnPgm

Please use the link below to see the recording of our annual Spring Title I input meeting:
https://app.screencastify.com/v3/watch/d2zA6IfNtVmas4P7xZsx

Parents, you are cordially invited to be our guests on
Thursday, January 18, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
for our Breakfast and Briefing Parent Workshop.
We will provide a light breakfast as we assist you in helping to prepare your child for the Georgia Milestones assessment. Resources and samples will be given, and a brief overview of Lexile levels which determine whether your child is or is not reading on grade level will be given. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this event!! A flyer will go home with your child on January 4, 2024. Please fill out the bottom portion and return it so that we can have your child’s individual test scores prepared for you so that you can see how your child performed last year and have an idea on how to best help him/her as we test this Spring.
We look forward to seeing you!!!

Please join us at 5:30 pm as we give parents a glimpse of the new Georgia K-12 Mathematics standards and show you where to find resources that can help you at home. You will also have an opportunity to provide input on our Title I documents. At 6:00 pm, there will be a brief PTO meeting before beginning our Math night. Please make plans to attend!

Thank you to all of our parents who attended one of our Annual Title I Parent Meetings. In case you were unable to attend, you can view a recording of the meeting here: https://watch.screencastify.com/v/OflgOSnAVBtvdCCA8J1B

Your input is needed. Please complete the survey above.

Your input is needed! Please complete the survey above.

In July 2012, two pieces of legislation were passed in our state regarding student access to online
learning opportunities. Senate Bill 289 mandated school systems to offer opportunities for
students to take online courses, and House Bill 175 established the creation of a clearinghouse for
stakeholders to find online courses and course providers in the state of Georgia. By way of this
letter and as required by law, the McDuffie County School System seeks to inform you of the key
components of each piece of legislation and how to find online learning opportunities for your
child. Those opportunities can be found in the link below:

Parents are invited to give input on Title I and ESSER for the upcoming school year.

Date: 07/01/2022

Dear Parents,

In compliance with the requirements of the Every Students Succeeds Act, R.L. Norris Elementary School would like to inform you that you may request information about the professional qualifications of your student’s teacher(s) and/ or paraprofessional(s). The following information may be requested:

· Whether the student’s teacher—

o has met State qualification and licensing criteria for the grade levels and subject areas in which the teacher provides instruction;

o is teaching under emergency or other provisional status through which State qualification or licensing criteria have been waived; and

o is teaching in the field of discipline of the certification of the teacher.



· Whether the child is provided services by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications.



If you wish to request information concerning your child’s teacher’s and/ or paraprofessional’s qualifications, please contact Principal Shantell Crockett at 706-986-4400.