A Parent Survey is provided (see the link on our homepage) to allow parents the opportunity to share ideas, rate aspects of the school, select involvement areas, and determine funding.  Here are a list of activities where you can become involved!

This day is designed to bring families together for fun and games!  Teachers work the booths and involve families in games where students win prizes and compete against one another.  This is always a lot of fun for the kids.  The night ends with a delicious Chili Supper!

At the beginning of each year during the first PTO meeting, we encourage parents to submit interest in serving on our Parent Involvement Committee.  This committee reviews the parent involvement plan, makes changes and additions to the plan, and reviews the Family-Teacher Compact.  This committee is instrumental in planning activities for the year and determining best practices to reinforce parent involvement at Ralph Askins.

This night was designed to place the parent in the role of "learner" as teachers presented concepts, curriculum, and strategies that pertain to their child's learning.  This platform helped parents better understand what their child is learning and how they are taught. 

The Session topics included:

• Effective ways to read to your child
• How to understand the assessments
• Tapping Out With Tiles Phonics Lesson
• SonDay Intervention Curriculum
• How to overcome barriers with reading
• What is RTI?
• Vocabulary and language building
• Selecting the right books for your child
• English as a Second Language...how to help
• And MUCH MORE!

Parent-Teacher Conferences provide an intimate time for parents to take a sneak peek into the classrooms to see what their student is learning.  It also provides a time for teachers to share individual student work as well as assessment data with parents.  This year, we combined a community resource element where parents could take a stroll to different booths set up in the lunchroom that  provided a multitude of family resources.  Some of these resources included: 

• Local Churches
• Clothe Our Kids
• Centerstone
• The Public Library
• Motlow and TCAT
• Powerschool Training
• TNReady Score Reports
• Junior Pro Basketball
• Hands of Mercy
• Junior's House
• Foster Grandmothers

This is a special day designed to involve our Grandparents in the school environment.  Grandparents are encouraged to go into the classrooms and share something special from their pasts.  This could be an artifact, a story, or even pictures!  This year, we had over 400 parents attend!

Muffins and Juice are provided as well as a student performance.