Booker ISD Translation Procedure

Purpose:

Booker ISD will take realistic steps to ensure that parents, guardians, and others with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) have access and equal opportunity to important school information. Information regarding student interpretive, descriptive, and diagnostic reports, plans, policy, compact, parent meetings, and other required correspondence will be provided in an understandable and uniform format, and to the extent practical, in a language that parents/guardians can understand [Section 1112(e)(4); 1114(b)(4); 1116(e)(5); 1116(f)].

Types of Translation Available:

Language assistance will be provided through a bilingual staff interpreter, written translated materials and documents, and technology-assisted website translation capabilities.

Data Used to Determine Translation Needs:

Booker ISD reviews yearly the language access needs of our parents, guardians, and others through review of the Home Language Forms, district/campus ethnicity data, and educator/parent/student feedback and requests. The languages identified for translation are English and Spanish.

Documents/Information to be Translated:

The District/Campus(es) Improvement Plan(s) and the Parent Family Engagement written policy(ies) are available in the district and campus administration offices and are available upon request verbally via an interpreter or via website translation capability.

Written parent newsletters from the Title I, Part A Parent Family Engagement Statewide Initiative are provided to parents/guardians in the identified language(s).

School Parent Compact written information is translated into the identified language(s). Teacher-Parent Conferences (Compact) will be conducted in the presence of a staff interpreter.

Written reports will be translated into the identified language for the parent/guardian. Further explanation or detail on the report will be provided to the parent/guardian via a staff interpreter.

Monitoring:

On an ongoing basis, Booker ISD will assess changes in demographics, types of services or other needs that may require reevaluation of this procedure. In addition, Booker ISD will regularly assess the effectiveness of these procedures used for the delivery of language assistance.