C-FC Elementary School has a schoolwide Title 1 program, which is designed to generate high levels of academic achievement for all students, especially those most in need of additional support. All staff, resources, and classes are part of the schoolwide program, and it serves all the children in a school.
The program prioritizes family engagement to improve student achievement.
Title I is a federal program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that provides supplementary funds and services to school districts and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children who are disadvantaged.
Our 24-25 plan (linked above) includes outcomes from last school year, our needs assessment summary, SMART goals for the academic year, schoolwide strategies to address those SMART goals, instructional strategies and methods, and benchmarks.
Last year the C-FC school district was operating as a Targeted Assistance program. It was successful in serving 39 students in either a push in or pull out method depending on the students’ needs. During 2023-24, we tried pushing into Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third Grade. Through collaboration the Title I Teacher worked with the classroom teachers to determine how to best help the students who needed it the most. Through this model we had 78.9% of first- and second-grade students score as strong decoders on a decoding assessment. The previous year we had 57% of first- and second-graders score as strong decoders on the same decoding assessment. From this experiment we determined that by the Title I teacher pushing into the classrooms it had a great effect on all of the students in supporting their learning.
MTSS System
We are currently implementing a MTSS (Multi Tiered System of Support) system at Cochrane-Fountain City Elementary School. Tier One is the universal classroom instruction. Tier Two is additional support that can be provided in addition to universal instruction with specific skills. Tier Three support focuses on closing significant gaps through direct, explicit and systematic instruction, this is in addition to universal instruction. We used student data from multiple sources to determine the support that our students need.
Literacy Night
An additional change we made to our Title I services in 2023-2024 was inviting all of the elementary students to our Annual Literacy Night. In previous years, we had just invited students who the Title I teacher-served. At our Pirate-themed Literacy night we had over 75 people attend, as well as 20 volunteers to make the night successful! We sought feedback from anonymous parent surveys for families that attended the event to make the next literacy night even more successful!
We are excited to officially begin our first year as an Elementary Title I Schoolwide program to continue to help all students grow.
