Title I Coordinator (Family Engagement Coordinator) Cheryl Hagar (701) 420-7504

What is Title I? The purpose of Title I, Part A is to provide all children significant opportunity to receive a fair, equitable, and high-quality education, and to close educational achievement gaps. The Title I, Part A is an ESEA program intended to:

• Ensure all children have the opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic standards and assessments,
• Provide funding to supplement educational opportunities for students in higher poverty schools,
• Provide professional learning for school staff, and
• Implement other strategies for raising student academic achievement.

Minot Public Schools has identified nine Title I schools in the district for the 2022-2023 school year:

• Bell Elementary School (Targeted Assistance)
• Dakota Elementary School (Schoolwide)
• Jim Hill Middle School (Schoolwide)
• Lewis & Clark Elementary School (Targeted Assistance)
• Longfellow Elementary School (Schoolwide)
• McKinley Elementary School (Targeted Assistance)
• Roosevelt Elementary School (Schoolwide)
• Sunnyside Elementary School (Schoolwide)
• Washington Elementary School (Schoolwide)

The District also provides Targeted Assistance programming to eligible private school students in Minot.

Title I schools provide additional supports, which may include some or all of the following:

• Title I reading or math teachers (interventionists) who provide supplemental services to at-risk learners
• Title I paraprofessional(s) who work under the direct supervision of a teacher in providing additional instructional services to at-risk students
• High-quality, evidence-based professional development opportunities related to serving at-risk students

Title I schools in Minot can help: Children

• improve their reading and math achievement by providing evidence-based reading and math instruction guided by research-based assessments.
• learn and apply research-based reading and math strategies.

Parents

• become partners in their children's education through communication, involvement, and education.

Classroom Teachers

• by providing assessment and progress monitoring data to inform instruction in the classroom.
• by providing evidence-based intervention in reading and math to their students.
• by developing research-based programs to supplement the regular classroom instruction in reading and math.