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Niesha Franklin hcps

Cheryl Franz hcps

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Provide opportunities (brainstorming/collaboration sessions) to get coordinators together (in person!) regularly throughout the lead-up to the start of the school year and into the first month of the year. 

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Provide opportunities (brainstorming/collaboration sessions) to get coordinators together (in person!) regularly throughout the lead-up to the start of the school year and into the first month of the year. 

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Monthly student forums to elevate student voices

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Monthly student forums to elevate student voices

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What’s working for them? What isn’t? What do they want and need? What ideas do they have to make positive changes and impact not just within our school but also the surrounding community?

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How to get engagement and support from both parents and staff, especially when many families live far from the school. For staff, seeking ways to bring staff together and establish a more collaborative environment with the desire, not obligation, support.

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Work to increase communication with families so they know all of the wonderful things happening at Maple! 

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Work to increase communication with families so they know all of the wonderful things happening at Maple! 

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The creation and implementation of Father Figure Fridays. Bringing father figures into the building to meet, to volunteer, book study, and hosting speakers to coach them up on strategies assist their student with school work and character development.

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How to increase attendance, increase parent volunteerism, and increase community partnerships.

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How to increase attendance, increase parent volunteerism, and increase community partnerships.

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Increase the sharing of best practices. 

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Increase the sharing of best practices. 

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Regenna Jalón, DCPS.

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I will continue to support the CLs with their events to engage parents and families.

Regenna Jalón, DCPS

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Liz Bacon (Wicomico County) hosts a multicultural fashion show and dinner theater experience each year that features all the cultures represented in our school. The students and their families (parents) dress in their authentic cultural attire and there is food from each culture showcased throughout the event. Students from the high school get volunteer hours by working as caterers at the event. Each table is served by one high school student. The families even got to learn how to pick steamed crabs. It is a phenomenal event that the families love!

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Bright spot creating an Afterschool swim program (life skills program) to support efforts of closing the racial swim gap.

Cultural Day for parents and students to uplift Social awareness and enrich our community in learning about different cultural values, traditions, communication, etc.

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Greenwood Elementary School’s partnership with the Maryland Food bank has provided many families and students with meals for the long breaks and on a daily basis!

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Support and Coach New Community School Facilitators in my new district role.

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Support and Coach New Community School Facilitators in my new district role.

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Sara Bennett, BCPS

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GJS Community Middle School (Christian Johnson, CSF)

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GJS Community Middle School (Christian Johnson, CSF)

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Established multiple mentoring programs and opportunities to meet the needs of our students; Using our needs assessment data we created new opportunities for OST Programming that offer variety of choices for students.

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Continue building opportunities to learn and grow!

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Learn how to support launching new community schools/new facilitators

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Learn how to support launching new community schools/new facilitators

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Learning how to improve attendance, linkage to community partners, and make families feel more included. 

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Learning how to improve attendance, linkage to community partners, and make families feel more included. 

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Seek out and find partners to support our scholar’s long term, cross curricular learning expeditions so that EVERY expedition has a service learning component!

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Have teacher build positive relationships with their families and their students.

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Lowered chronic absenteeism, more than doubled our grant wins/donations, and increased our partnerships. Sara B, BCPS

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Have monthly assemblies for students where parents will be able to parade through the halls and into the classrooms to engage in learning in the classrooms

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Have monthly assemblies for students where parents will be able to parade through the halls and into the classrooms to engage in learning in the classrooms

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#AACPS

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How to get high school parents involved

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Just here to stoke my fire and go back excited with more strategies to be better for students, families, staff and partners!

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Constant communications with parents through class dojo, monthly parents’ night & marketing days helped building family and school engagement in our school.

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Increase in the number of parents attending monthly Parent Cafe activities. Parents receive strategies for helping students at home, academic workshops and wellness activities.

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Towson University’s Center for Community Schools

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Towson University’s Center for Community Schools

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Will be helping our community schools build capacity!! Pick up the phone ya’ll!!

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Decrease absenteeism

Increase parent involvement

Increase resources for families

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Establishing a monthly food give away sponsored by community donors to address food insecurity in the community-Glyndon Elementary BCPS (Lakecia Hines)

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Establishing a monthly food give away sponsored by community donors to address food insecurity in the community-Glyndon Elementary BCPS (Lakecia Hines)

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An Agrotech after-school program where the students have been taught how to grow vegetables indoors and outdoors. These students have started a garden on our 52 acres. Additionally, the students have been working with drones and Oculus glasses.

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Hosted a Family & Community Game Night & Prom Giveaway

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Instead of a typical muffins with moms we hosted a Safe space mental health over muffin buffet and mocktail mimosas bar with our partner at MomCares! MomCares specializes in Maternal child health, they provide diaper distribution, and train high schoolers to become doula’s! Largest turnout with parent engagement in a long time! We gave resources and diapers away along with mental health programs like Healing Circles!

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we have a 92% graduation rate of our senior class for our latino immigrant students in our program in collaboration with school staff (counselors, teachers, admin, etc)

#firstgeneration

#NorthwesternHighSchool_PGCPS

La Clinica Del Pueblo, Mi Refugio

Britney Padilla

Bpadilla@lcdp.org

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Somerset County Public Schools partnership with the Maryland Food Bank. It has helped feed many families and students on long breaks and then n a daily basis!

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Discover best practices to better support my team, provide opportunities for growth, and ways to better collect data. 

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Discover best practices to better support my team, provide opportunities for growth, and ways to better collect data. 

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Regenna Jalón, DCPS

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We were able to have two separate immigration attorneys come to speak with families as well as partnering with a local non profit organization to tutor refuge families.

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Parent workshops, attendance 80% from our families 

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Parent workshops, attendance 80% from our families 

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Glassmanor Elementary School

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We’ve been able to have strong parent/family engagement events this year and for the first time in a while, have a strong group of parents who are present and willing to help me carry these things out!

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Relationship Building….. And Food Pantry was established… 

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Relationship Building….. And Food Pantry was established… 

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We all understand how challenging it can be to define your role as a coordinator within your specific school, especially when it comes to where to focus your energy for partnerships and resources. A bright spot of this is getting to a point of having enough experience and engagement to be able to clearly define your role and goals for your school, making implementation and impact a reality!

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Vendors shared resources while having fun and eating food.

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Lowering CA in Kindergarten and working on TWO-way communication! -Sandalwood, Shannon A

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International and Curriculum night- we co-planned to combine the two events, asked students to make their culture’s food and fashion show. Parents were really invested and happy about the event and learned about each dept’s curriculum and how to support.

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Liz Bacon (Wicomico County) hosts a multicultural fashion show and dinner theater experience each year that features all the cultures represented in our school. The students and their families (parents) dress in their authentic cultural attire and there is food from each culture showcased throughout the event. Students from the high school get volunteer hours by working as caterers at the event. Each table is served by one high school student. The families even got to learn how to pick steamed crabs. It is a phenomenal event that the families love!

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Monthly assemblies for students with parent involvement as they parade into classrooms to support after the assembly

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Monthly assemblies for students with parent involvement as they parade into classrooms to support after the assembly

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#AACPS

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Gave parents a place to connect with other parents, a safe place to share concerns.

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Dorchester county public school : Hurlock Elementary School 

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Dorchester county public school : Hurlock Elementary School 

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increased our family engagement percentage at our family engagement events.

Continued and grew our food pantry, clothing closet and hygiene project.

Increased our community partner collaborations

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Weekend Backpack Program to support students experiencing food insecurity over the weekend during for 32 families at Winfield Elementary in Baltimore County this school year!

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Towson University is rolling out a new center for Maryland’s community schools & will partner w Loyola University & other colleges across the state to help support our community schools!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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Our STEAM night and Sculpture unveiling was attended by more families then any other event. Helps us to know that personal invites and home visits are working to increase our families connection with the school.

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Chili Cook Off. Each grade made a chili. Each chili recipe went with a community charity. Families put coins in their favorite chili. Winning chili got the golden spoon, but all charities got the money raised. A faith based partner had blankets for every family so they did not feel “Chilly”

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Awesome countywide Community School Steering Committee !

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Awesome countywide Community School Steering Committee !

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Collaborating with Imagine Living Well to provide training for students, staff and families across the county

Dot Bell Jackson

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Church Lane Elementary Technology School 

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Church Lane Elementary Technology School 

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MCAP Night for parents helped them support us in preparing our students for state testing and improved attendance!

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I’m going to lower the CA rate for kindergarten! -Shannon A, Sandalwood

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Providing a safe place for our students to participate in clubs and obtaining additional a ademic support.

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We held a wonderful International Day that was attended by representatives of all cultures in our school. We had a huge turnout!

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Largest community engagement events that the school has ever had by giving stakeholders a voice. 

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Largest community engagement events that the school has ever had by giving stakeholders a voice. 

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Partnership with SNAP-ED provided monthly nutrition lessons for all grades, PreK-5.

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Winfield Middle School

Partnership with Teacher Academy of Maryland- High School students complete a paid internship to work in Elementary schools. High students leave with a para professional certificate. Assist teachers with students one on one, small groups.

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Build positive relationships and expand our food pantry.

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Build positive relationships and expand our food pantry.

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Viers Mill ES (MCPS) - food pantry, parent education sessions, parent English classes (taught by my CSL), etc. [Alexis Lee, AP]

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Viers Mill ES (MCPS) - food pantry, parent education sessions, parent English classes (taught by my CSL), etc. [Alexis Lee, AP]

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We were able to make great connections with our families and work to make our school more inclusive.

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HERO Breakfast (Here Everyday Right On time). Went from 84 student in jeopardy of becoming chronic and reduced it with relationship building and games We ended with 23 chronic students verses 84.

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Derek’s and Dulce’s approach to leadership of MSDE’s Office of Community Schools (assessing where we are, being reflecting) - monthly collaborative meetings, regional level-setting meetings

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*Joint Community Schools Resource Day

*Parent engagement increased in our first year as a Community School

*Increasing our Community Partners

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Having a larger presence at political forums throughout the state in an effort to raise awareness and increase funding for the movement.

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We got 30 parents employed/better paying salaries this school year.

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Marcela Lovo-Elias (MCPS) Burnt Mills ES

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Marcela Lovo-Elias (MCPS) Burnt Mills ES

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Served between 180-200+ families at every family market since December 2023.

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Norms in behaviors that show a sense of community amongst parents, partners, and staff.

Increase programming implemented tied to students interest and needs.

MCPS-

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Our feeder schools, parents, and other community stakeholders came out to our games. We had a packed house!!!

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Increasing number of parents and families at school events!

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How to build a strong community.

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Parents understanding and utilizing resources more

More parent attendance

Field Trips

Paint Night!

Fall Festival with the horses from MD parks

MGM Teacher Appreciation Week

Riley Mace, Riley.mace@pgcps.org

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How to be more collaborative and not have ideas conflict

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Arundel Elementary School won SFCC (School Family Committee Council) team of the year in conjunction with Cherry Hill Elementary Middle School. 

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Arundel Elementary School won SFCC (School Family Committee Council) team of the year in conjunction with Cherry Hill Elementary Middle School. 

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Students excited to decide what books they were going to get in the book vending machine purchased using CS funds.

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We’ve been able to have family engagement evenings and events where attendance has increased throughout the year.

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Accomplishing a afterschool enrichment program for our elementary school students

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The number 1 in the nation step team came to perform at our school twice. It made such an impact on the students. Now we have students requesting for the school to start a step team. This will help provide a structured and safe environment for students to participate in after school. We will be starting our step program in the Fall.

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Engaged stakeholders at our monthly SDMT

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Increased family engagement at events/Community resource fair paired with all events

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Increased family engagement at events/Community resource fair paired with all events

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Increasing KRA data 35% +(free summer camps, learning take home activities during breaks, etc)

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Each one of our team members have actively helped to increase engagement with families. Through family food markets, parent nights, Dojo messages and Attendance initiatives.

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Increased parental involvement and collaborative partnerships allowed us to create new initiatives to engage students and families.

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I am enjoying my IEL conference thusfar

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We started an Attendance Allies program with chronically absent students. Building relationships with these students and their families has improved attendance.

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Successfully completed the 1st annual HBCU college fair

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First Slam Dunk for Mental Health at Salisbury Middle School was a success!! 

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First Slam Dunk for Mental Health at Salisbury Middle School was a success!! 

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We have had an incredible increase in parent engagement due to figuring out the needs of families and using that as means to get families involved and receiving information and resources they need.

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Collaborating and building relationships with all stakeholders 

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Collaborating and building relationships with all stakeholders 

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Hundreds of families came out. Cohosted by United Workers

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Increased parent engagement 40% based on last SY rate

Decreased chronic absenteeism 15%

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Monthly parent/guardian coffees. Bringing resources each month to parents/guardians, 85-120 people a month <3