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Exhibit A PROGRAM DESCRIPTION and ACCOUNTABILITY RCSD operates six full-service community schools, serving over 3,700 pre-K-8thgraders. 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. RCSD Community School Achievements • The Gardner Center's most recent analysis (Biag, 2014) indicates that roughly 84% of community school students took part in at least one type of program area in the 2013-14 school year. • Relative to non -participants, students whose parents took part in family engagement opportunities for three or more years were predicted to have, on average, about a two percentage point annual advantage in their attendance rate; this added up to roughly four extra days of school attendance over a 180 -day school year.' • Students whose families were involved in family engagement opportunities at Community Schools for three or more years exhibited greater growth in their attendance rate than their peers whose families had fewer years of participation.2 • English learners whose families were participating in Community School programs for three or more years showed greater gains in their English language proficiency. Our Focus for 2019-2020 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 1 `Examining the Status of Redwood City Community Schools" John Gardner Center Report, (Biag, Biscocho, and Gerstein, 2016) 2 "Redwood City Community Schools Research Report" (Biag, Manuelito 2013-2014). John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. December 2014. REV: 04-17-2020 RL ATTY/AGR.2020.065/Redwood City Community Schools (Page 6 of 8)