HQPK Family Engagement Plan
Introduction
Splendora ISD, in accordance with the House Bill 3 High-Quality Prekindergarten guidelines, has created a High-Quality Prekindergarten Family Engagement Plan to promote partnership among our school, families, and community, ensuring successful outcomes for our youngest learners in prekindergarten programs. Collaboratively, we all share the responsibility to encourage and support initiatives, activities, and practices that enhance the success of student learning and achievement.
Family Engagement Plan Development Committee Members:
Dr. Kristy Dietrich, Dawn Jackson, Stephanie Morse, Sonya Simpson, Jessica Sowell, Harrison Gillaspy, Shelley Wells, Brittney Pettis
Primary Contact & Contact Information for Families:
Name: Dawn Jackson
Email: djackson@splendoraisd.org
Phone: 281-689-4327
Family Engagement Plan SY 2025-2026
Family Engagement Plan Component
Component Description
Activity/Event/Practice Details and Timing
Facilitate Family-to Family Support
Inclusive, transparent communications allow school personnel to create a safe and respectful environment to promote supportive interaction between households.
- PK Round-Up (April 2025)
- PK/K Meet the Teacher events (August 2025)
- Kinder - Meet the Teacher
- PK - Little Wildcats, Big Beginnings Night
Establish a network of community resources
Splendora ISD will build strategic partnerships with community organizations to leverage community resources for caregivers through the community resources handbook, and ongoing district-wide events.
- PK-12 CCMR Initiative
- PK -Health Science (Sept 2025)
- PK -Animal Science (Feb 2026)
- K- Automotive (Sept 2025)
- K - Teaching & Training (Oct 2025)
Increase family participation in decision making
Throughout the year, participation in district and school-wide decision-making empowers caregivers as their child’s first teacher and advocate.
- Surveys
Equip families with tools to enhance and extend learning
Caregivers have multiple opportunities to learn about student progress and ways to support success at home. Caregivers also have personal extended learning opportunities.
- Newsletter from teacher
- Family conferences required twice each year
- ESL classes offered
- Family night events
Provide ongoing professional development opportunities for educators
Prekindergarten teaching staff participate in professional development opportunities to support and use culturally diverse, culturally relevant, and culturally responsive family engagement strategies and enhance instruction
- District wide PK/K curriculum training
- District wide instructional practices PD
- PK/K Dual language PD
Evaluate family engagement efforts and use results for continuous improvement
Ongoing campus/district needs assessment cycle will seek input to improve the quality of instruction, climate, and family engagement
- Campus Improvement plan cycle
- District/Campus Climate Surveys
- Title I Parent Survey
- Beginning of year student centered goal setting and family conferences
Transition Activities
- Splendora Littles - SISD library community outreach program for young children not yet enrolled in PK/K. Partnership with local childcare providers.
- Special Services outreach to local childcare providers
Conclusion
The Splendora ISD HQPK Family Engagement Plan is one of the strategies our district uses to guide collaborative success. The positive relationships between staff and families that Splendora ISD promotes through the HQPK Family Engagement plan, help build a shared understanding of how we can work together to ensure every child will reach their full potential, from birth to kindergarten and beyond.