Parent Agreements

Expectations for Horizons Community Members
Education at Horizons is a team effort that involves students, teachers, and parents working together to implement the school's vision. Horizons teachers and parents are expected to share the responsibility for ensuring successful learning experiences for our students by:

• Creating and maintaining a respectful school climate
• Collaboratively developing, refining, and implementing the vision of the school through the work of the Horizons Council

Parents will support the Horizons mission by:

• Educating themselves about the Horizons philosophy and goals, which guide the learning activities at the school
• Strengthening the Horizons’ climate of trust, respect, and shared problem-solving by practicing the Horizons Communications Agreements
• Providing feedback, in a timely fashion
• Participating in shared decision-making
• Thinking positively and critically about Horizons, and contributing ideas that will help the school continue to flourish
• Attending at least one school event and Council meeting every year to build an understanding of and connection to the Horizons community

Parents will support their children in becoming successful learners by:

• Supporting their children to attend school regularly
• Planning vacations to coincide with school vacations
• Sending only healthy children to school
• Providing their children with nutritious breakfasts, lunches and snacks
• Helping children arrive at school on time on a consistent basis
• Participating in the development and evaluation of their child’s learning goals at Family Conferences
• Notifying teachers of significant changes or events in their children’s lives that may affect their school performance
• Letting their children know, in word and action, that education is important
  Helping their children develop good study habits and pride in producing complete, quality, and accurate work
• Providing necessary supplies at home and at school to complete tasks, or requesting financial aid in order to do so
• Providing a suitable time and place at home for their children to work on assignments
• Letting their children know that homework is important and an extension of school
• Supporting their children in completing their assignments on time by adjusting family activity schedules as appropriate
• Planning alternative learning activities if children must unavoidably miss school

Parents will develop effective communication links with the school by:

• Modeling the Horizons Communication Agreements
• Communicating information, questions and/or concerns to teachers about instructional styles, student needs/interests, and classroom procedures as they arise
• Regularly reading the classroom and/or school newsletters, and checking the Horizons Web site: www.horizonsk8school.org
• Helping other Horizons parents to understand and to practice the Horizons Communication Agreements

Parents will support the health and safety of all Horizons students by:

• Following the parking rules at morning drop-off and dismissal times
• Picking their children up from school in a timely fashion
• Supervising their own children at events held outside of regular school hours
• Supporting efforts to clean and maintain our school building

Parents will model being community contributors who support the operation of
the school by:

• Assisting in the classroom, the office, the lunchroom, or on the playground
• Participating in the Horizons Council
• Participating on a Council Task Force
• Coordinating or volunteering at a school activity or function

Please be sure to print and sign the Parent Agreement form available for download here >>