Agmt21 Redwood City Community Schools

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REV: 06-05-2020 RL Exhibit A PROGRAM DESCRIPTION and ACCOUNTABILITY RCSD operates six full-service community schools, serving over 3,700 pre-K-8 th graders. The goal of the Community Schools model is to address the barriers to learning by more efficiently coordinating efforts and resources to bolster students’ learning, strengthen families, and promote healthy communities. Community Schools directly align with San Mateo County’s 2025 shared vision around building a healthy, prosperous and collaborative community. RCSD’s network of full-service Community Schools provides students and their families with daily expanded learning opportunities, counseling support, family engagement opportunities, and a wide range of safety net services – all in a coordinated, leveraged, and intentional manner. Our Focus for 2020-2021 1. Building family capacity in school system, family stability, and at home learning. We define family engagement as meaningful connections between schools and their students’ families. According to research, family engagement at school and communication with school are predictors of student achievement. RWC2020 and Community Schools have co-designed a new family engagement plan that aims at turning our Leadership groups into promoters of knowledge (promotoras) and meaningful capacity building. Our vision: designing monthly modules around 3 main modules: Community building/ schoolwide outreach Educational partners/ At home learning System navigation/ Community resources Each module (meeting) will follow same script: Learning and reflection: working through that module's content and creating probing questions -> building the participants' capacity. Changing how they view their role in their family, community, and school. Action: trying it out ourselves, sharing with others. -> sharing the tools school-wide: disseminating knowledge promotoras style. RCSD will start working with all Community Schools in the fall. By partnering with parents in a deeper capacity, where we support their skill acquisition beyond outreach and onto content dissemination, RCSD Community Schools will be able to reach more families in more informal spaces and touchpoints, and overcome the presence-based requirements. Content created for the family leadership teams will be replicated and shared through ATTY/AGR.2020.090/Redwood City School District (Page 6 of 8)