CENTERVILLE ELEMENTARY
2025-2026
JOINTLY DEVELOPED
SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT
The families, students, and staff of Centerville
Elementary School developed the School-Parent
Compact. The CES Leadership Team meets once a
month. The Leadership Team is composed of teachers,
community members and school families.
Centerville
ELEMENTARY
Families are welcomed to contribute more comments
BULLDOGS
and suggestions at any time. If you would like to
contribute, please contact Amy McAbee at
931-729-2212 or amy.mcabee@hickmank12.org
WHAT IS A SCHOOL-PARENT COMPACT?
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
A School-Parent Compact is an agreement that
families, students, and teachers develop together. It
Centerville Elementary works hard to build
explains how families and teachers will work
relationships with families of CES students. Each year
together to make sure all students reach grade level
we typically engage families with the following:
standards.
Open House
Effective School-Parent Compacts:
Book Fair
Career Night
Link goals to the School Improvement Plan
Parent Teacher Conferences
Focus on student learning
Family Engagement Activities
Describe how teachers will help students develop
Leadership Team
skills using high-quality instruction
Share strategies that families can use at home
Explain how teachers and parents will
communicate about student progress
COMMUNICATION ABOUT STUDENT LEARNING
Centerville Elementary School is committed to two-way
communication with families about student learning.
Some of the ways that you can expect us to reach you
are:
Daily Take-Home folder
Weekly Graded Papers folder/Progress Reports
Class Dojo/Remind messaging Apps
Weekly classroom newsletter
Monthly principal newsletter
School website and Facebook page updates
Parent Teacher Conferences
Emails/Phone calls
CENTERVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- TEACHERS -
Centerville Elementary School will support students
and families for success in reading and math. We will
CENTERVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GOALS
provide parents with:
Hickman County School System sets overall goals for
the district and Centerville Elementary School aligns its
Monthly Principal Newsletters
goals to the district. The Centerville Elementary School
Weekly classroom newsletters
School website with links to the reading book and
goals for 2024 - 2025 are:
online activities for building math and reading
Create a culture of high expectations for all
skills
students and provide opportunities to build
Family Engagement Nights
instructional leadership, administrator capacity
Materials, such as, vocabulary/math flash cards
and developing teacher leaders.
to use at home to build skills
Provide high quality instruction through an
Free books for reading at home
engaging and rigorous curriculum that will
positively impact learning and improve student
achievement in literacy
Nurture partnerships with families and members of
CENTERVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
the community to help improve student
- PARENTS -
achievement.
Families joined Centerville Elementary School staff to
develop ideas about how families can support
students at home in reading and math. Families are
welcomed to add to the list
TOGETHER FOR SUCCESS!
Have fun with math! Use items in the kitchen to
-TEACHERS, PARENTS AND STUDENTS -
count, subtract, and add!
Communication between families and schools is
Attend Family Engagement Nights and Parent
necessary for student success. As parents and teachers
Teacher Conferences
share information with each other about a student, the
Play words games (even in the car) and find ways
better equipped both will be to help that student
to use new vocabulary words in everyday
achieve academically. We can achieve our goals when
conversation
we all work together!
Use the weekly classroom newsletter to guide
conversation about topics or activities happening
at school
Keep a routine for homework/school work review
CENTERVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- STUDENTS -
Centerville Elementary School students joined staff and
families to develop ideas about how to reach reading
and math goals. Students thought of the following
ideas on making connections at home with skills they
have learned at school.
Talk to family about new vocabulary words
Look over the classroom newsletter and discuss
Do you have questions about your child's progress?
Contact your child's teacher at (931) 729-2212 or by email.
new words, topics or activities
All school emails are as follows:
Share reading stories with family
firstname.lastname@hickmank12.org