School Compact 2025-26

Home-School Compact for Student Achievement 25-26

Mission: Inspire students to think critically, pursue their dreams, and change the world.

Guiding Values:

Achievement: Fostering academic success by taking action to increase student achievement through challenging and collaborative learning.
Communications: Engaging with sincerity and honesty, by using language, that can be understood by all.
Continuous Improvement: Pursuing excellence by identifying and strengthening what it is working well and being flexible to change what it is not.
Collaboration: Working together in a respectful manner that values and honors families, staff, students, and the community.
Accountability: Holding ourselves to high standards for the outcomes of student achievement, and operational, institutional, and physical performance.
Inclusive Culture: Embracing everyone’s culture, race, ethnicity, ability, and identity.

What is a Family-School Compact?

Together, families, students, and educators create a Family-School Compact Agreement for Student Achievement. It describes how educators and families will collaborate to ensure that every student receives the individualized help they require to meet and surpass grade-level expectations.

Communicating about Learning

SPPS Online School is committed to communicating regularly with families about children’s learning. Some of the ways you can expect us to communicate are:

School/Classroom Newsletters: emailed to families weekly (varies by grade level/and school). Paper copies are available upon request.
Regular updates to the school website.
Parent/Teacher/Student conferences.
Phone calls, emails, written letters, notes and flyers.
Goal of a 24-hour response time to phone calls and voicemail messages during scheduled school days. Calls made on Friday will be returned on Monday.
Seesaw: Kindergarten through fifth grade teachers use this app for instructional purposes and to share student work with families.
Schoology: Sixth through 12th grade teachers use this app for instructional purposes. Parents have access to see their child’s work.
Student Behavior Handbook (Rights and Responsibilities): is available at https://www.spps.org/families/students-rights-responsibilities
Automated Phone Calls, Emails, and Text Messages via Blackboard Connect: used as a way to make important school related announcements and to invite families to participate in school events and activities, as well as for general announcements and reminders.

Activities to Support Partnerships

Conferences: Student-led conferences done quarterly for Q1, Q2, Q3, and “Academic Assignment Completion Day” style for Q4. Dates TBD
PTSA: Stakeholders interested in forming a Parent Teacher Student Association should contact school administration for additional information and opportunities.
Parent Workshops: We will work with the Family Engagement & Community Partnerships Dept. to offer several workshops during this school year.
Virtual Classroom Visits: Communicated and facilitated throughout the school year. Parents are encouraged to contact classroom teacher to arrange a visit.
Parent Volunteer Opportunities: Parents are encouraged to contact their child’s teacher to discuss ways to volunteer in the classroom

School Goals - SPPS Online School

Jointly Developed with Families

Families at SPPS Online School will be solicited for input during the 2025–2026 academic year in order to collaboratively construct this Compact for Student Achievement. Feedback from SPPS Online School Teachers and Staff will be gathered in school-wide meetings throughout the year. The Compact will be modified once a year to take stakeholder input into account. Comments from families are welcome at any time.

For more information on the SPPS Online School compact or to provide feedback, please contact John Osorio at john.osorio@spps.org or at 651-744-6368.

We kindly and respectfully request parents to refrain from interrupting teachers during their instruction.

Parents are welcome to reach out to their child’s teacher and/or school administration at any time to request a meeting to discuss questions or concerns related to the school or their child’s learning.

To download a friendly copy, please click on the following link: OLS Family-School Compact

Teachers, Parents, Students—Together for Success- Shared Responsibilities

Success in school comes from the student, from family and guardians, and from SPPS Online Staff. At the SPPS Online, we believe we can hold everyone to high standards so that students can be successful.

Responsibilities	Students	Family/Guardians	SPPS Online Staff
Attendance	Sign on to school every day on time, be ready to learn, give your best effort, and complete assignments in a timely manner.	Make sure your child logs into all courses google meets every day on time, is prepared to learn, and completes and submits assignments based on class/course expectations.	Create a welcoming environment, encourage and monitor student attendance daily. Alert parents/guardians when attendance concerns develop and work with family to problem solve and improve attendance.
Beliefs	Believe that you have the capacity to be your best self and achieve your hopes and dreams in the SPPS online setting.	Believe your child has the capacity to be their best self and achieve their hopes and dreams in the SPPS online setting.	Believe staff have the capacity to support students in being their best selves and achieving their hopes and dreams.
Expectations and Procedures	Learn and follow the online school expectations and procedures working with parents on how to learn, develop, and implement discipline, skills, habits, and processes, to be successful. Follow classroom and engagement protocols	Learn and discuss school expectations and procedures by working closely with your children on helping them develop, and implement discipline, skills, habits, and processes, to be successful. Monitor student engagement and course progress.	Teach, model, and reinforce school expectations and procedures. Help students to develop discipline, skills, habits, and processes, to be successful students. Provide students and families with clear and consistent communication to provide timely information regarding student progress.
Learn	Personalize your learning by bringing your creativity to your assignments.	Encourage your child’s passion to learn and grow toward their own goals for college and career.	Provide personalized, engaging, and academically appropriate instruction, including culturally responsive teaching that represents and invites students’ identities.
Positive Relationships	Build and maintain positive relationships with all staff and peers.	Build and maintain a positive relationship with staff and other families at the online school.	Build and maintain positive relationships with all students and their families.
Respect	Respect yourself, the online learning environment, other students, their family/guardians, families, and all staff.	Respect and support the online learning environment by emphasizing the importance of being prepared for school and by providing an environment free of disruption.	Develop an online learning community and a respectful environment that supports social-emotional and academic success.
Safety	Behave respectfully online by not engaging in cyberbullying and unsafe browsing. Conduct yourself in a manner to ensure your online safety and the online safety of others.	Monitor and teach your child how to behave respectfully online by not engaging in cyberbullying and unsafe browsing. Contact your child’s school if you observe or are aware of potentially unsafe activities or conditions in the online learning environment.	Create and monitor safe conditions in the online school environment. Ensure students complete our digital citizenship curriculum encompassing proper use of the internet, cyberbullying training and appropriate use of school iPad.
State and District Testing	Learn about dates and participate actively in testing related to your grade level. Understand these tests are important and participate in all assessments required by SPPS Online.	Work closely with your children to make sure they are well prepared and present for State and District testing for their grade level. Ensure your child participates in all assessments required by SPPS Online.	Inform, educate, and encourage parents and students to participate in State and District testing for their grade level.
Support	Ask for and accept help when you need assistance.	Ask for help when you need assistance. Advocate for your child through regular communication with school staff.	Regularly communicate with students and families, including timely feedback on assignments. Support them when they ask for assistance.
Technology Use	Use technology and equipment in accordance with school policy and completion of the digital citizenship curriculum. Use school issued technology for school use and only access sites and resources directed by the teacher.	Review the technology agreement with your child and monitor their online interactions and activity daily. Parents/guardians are also responsible for implementing and utilizing tools provided by SPPS (Securly) regarding online access to outside resources.	Tailor instruction for student voice and choice within a technology-rich learning environment. Provide parents and guardians information regarding (Securly) to aid parents and guardians in restricting outside online resources from student iPad
Socialization	Connect responsibly with other classroom students and develop healthy relationships	Work with your child to identify and connect with other students and parents responsibly.	Provide opportunities in the classroom and some planned activities like field trips to help students socialize.
Hands on Projects	I will use physical and online resources suggested and provided by the teacher to better understand concepts and to improve certain skills.	I will make sure my child uses appropriately and takes care of all physical resources provided and/or suggested by the teacher.	I will plan and deliver instruction to make sure students have access to hands-on projects as much as possible.
Engagement	I will remove distractions (TV, cell phone, games, etc.) from the area of work and engage fully in the lessons provided by the teacher. Will complete assigned work by deadlines and ask for help if needed.	I will monitor my children to make sure all distractions are removed for them to engage fully in their daily schooling. Parent Guardian, will also check student progress weekly in Seesaw, Schoology, and/or Campus to ensure student is completing necessary assignments	I will plan and deliver interesting and engaging lessons for my students to be fully engaged in their daily learning. Will complete grading activities in a timely fashion to ensure student and parent/guardian have current progress and grades.