Social Worker
Our social worker is here working with the kids and helping them to deal with every day problems, which also helps them be able to succeed more in school and in the world outside of school.
Tom Kroes
Renville County Back-the Pack Program is partnering with the BOLD & RCW schools and Head Start to provide free meals and snacks to students who may need additional resources to obtain meals over the weekends during the school year.
For more information
Please call 320-894-2780 (main contact number)
or call 320-894-5547 or 320-905-7925
or email us
This service is provided to children enrolled in the BOLD & RCW schools or Olivia Head Start Program.
Title 1
Our Title program serves students in grades kindergarten through 5th grade.
A Parents’ Guide – What is Title I?
Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides financial assistance to states and school districts to meet the needs of educationally at-risk students. The goal of Title I is to provide extra instructional services and activities which support students identified as failing or most at risk of failing the state’s challenging performance standards in mathematics, reading, and writing.
What will Title I do for my child?
The Title I program will provide your student with extra educational assistance beyond the regular classroom.
Which schools does Title I serve?
The Title I program at BOLD serves students in elementary grades K-5 who have demonstrated that extra assistance is needed. Title I also serves students who attend St. Mary’s Catholic School.
How does our school receive Title I money?
First, the federal government provides funding to each state. Then, each State Educational Agency sends money to its school districts. How much money each school receives is determined by the number of low-income students attending that school. Finally, Title I schools:
- Identify the students at their school who need the most educational assistance based on the criteria that school has chosen. Students do NOT have to be from low-income families to receive Title I services.
- Set goals for improving the skills of educationally disadvantaged students at their school.
- Measure student progress to determine the success of the Title I program for each student.
- Develop programs for each individual student in order to support/supplement regular classroom instruction.
What do Title I programs offer?
Title I programs generally offer:
- Smaller classes or special instructional spaces.
- Additional teachers and aides.
- Opportunities for professional development for school staff.
- Extra time for teaching Title I students the skills they need.
- A variety of supplementary teaching methods. An individualized program for students.
- Additional teaching materials which supplement a student’s regular instruction.
How can I get involved?
Parents, you can influence the success of your student in school more than any teacher or federal program. By becoming an active participant in the Title I parent involvement plan at your school, you will:
- Serve as a role model, showing your student that you support his/her education.
- Assure that you are aware of your student’s educational progress; thereby demonstrating how important that progress is to you.
- Teach your student that your input at the school is appreciated and that you support its efforts.
What does research tell us?
Research shows that how well students do in school depends a great deal upon how much their parents get involved in their education. You can become more involved by:
- Joining local and national school/parent organizations.
- Supporting school extra-curricular activities.
- Volunteering at the school.
- Attending parent-teacher conferences.
- Communicating with your student’s teacher regularly, by writing notes, telephoning the school, etc.
- Keeping your student’s teacher informed about events in his or her life which may affect his/her performance at school.
- Discussing with your student’s teacher and parent organizations other ideas for parent involvement.
All BOLD Elementary students are benchmarked at the start of the school year.
Kindergarten and 1st grade students take FAST (Formative Assessment Systems for Teachers) early reading and early math assessments. Students who score below the 40th percentile qualify for Title services. Students in grades 2-6 are given a FAST fluency assessment as well as STAR reading and math assessments. Again, students scoring below the 40th percentile qualify for Title services. Additionally, each spring, BOLD students in grades 3-6 take the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) in both reading and math, and students who do not meet proficiency or only partially meet proficiency qualify for Title services in the coming school year.
If you have any questions as to what specific assessments qualified your child for Title services, please contact Brenda Prokosch at (320) 365-3551, ext. 4111 or Email Brenda.
If your child qualifies for Title I services, he or she will receive one of the following, or a combination of these services:
- In-class paraprofessional support during reading and/or math instruction.
- Pull-out small group paraprofessional support to reinforce reading and/or math skills as directed by your child’s classroom teacher.
- WIN math group taught by Mrs. Prokosch.
- WIN reading group taught by Ms. Loidolt.
- Reading intervention by our Minnesota Reading Corp tutor. (Grades K-3)
- Math Intervention by our Minnesota Math Corp Tutor. (Grades 4-6)
If you have any questions regarding the specific Title services your child is receiving, please contact Brenda Prokosch at (320) 365-3551, ext. 4111 or Email Brenda.
Here is the Reward Schools List.
Using the results of the Multiple Measurements Rating (MMR) and Focus Rating (FR), the Minnesota Department of Education classifies Title I schools into five groups.
BOLD Elementary has earned the distinction of “Reward School”
Reward Schools are the schools in the top 15 percent of Title I schools based on the MMR. They represent the highest-performing schools on the four domains in the MMR. Currently, the reward for these schools mainly comes through public recognition. MDE plans to share practices from these schools with Priority and Focus schools in an effort to replicate best practices across the state. These schools are identified annually.
“WIN” stands for “What I Need” and this is new at BOLD Elementary this year.
WIN Time is a 40-45 minute block of time each grade level has included in their day. It is a time when students can leave the room for Title I services, or any other special services such as physical, occupational, or speech therapy, ESL services, special education services, or even band lessons. The idea behind WIN Time is to carve out a time in the school day for kids to receive all their additional services in hopes of eliminating disruptions to the rest of their school day.
Response to Intervention (RtI) is a school-wide framework to help all students achieve through a multi-tiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs.
The RtI process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom.
Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of learning.
These services may be provided by a variety of personnel, including general education teachers, special educators, and specialists. Progress is closely monitored to assess both the learning rate and level of performance of individual students. Educational decisions about the intensity and duration of interventions are based on individual student response to instruction. RtI is designed for use when making decisions in both general education and special education, creating a well-integrated system of instruction and intervention guided by child outcome data.
At BOLD Elementary, we provide these targeted, research-based interventions in both math and reading to the bottom 20% of students at each grade level, K-6, through our WIN reading and WIN math groups. Students who qualify for Title I services may receive those services through one or both of these intervention groups. However, not all students receiving these interventions are Title I students. Students may fall in the bottom 20% of their grade, but not actually qualify for Title I.
Click for more information on the RtI Model
Go to IXL Math Practice (www.ixl.com) where your child can practice grade level math and ELA skills at home or anywhere you have an internet connection. If you have an iPad or iPhone, you can also download the free IXL Math Practice app. All students at BOLD Elementary have their own username and password for IXL. If your child has forgotten his or her username and/or password, feel free to contact Brenda Prokosch at (320) 365-3551, ext. 4111 or your child’s classroom teacher for that information.
Specialists
Lara Neubauer
Claudia Redmond
