A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY

4b. Students, families, and schools: the organization's students, families, and school strategies provide families direct support to make sure their learners are thriving in schools where students and staff are excited to be.a. Circle our schools: working with collaboratives of school-based stakeholders including students, families, staff, administrators, and community partners to address school-related needs and issues via planning, facilitation, and implementation support. Currently, this work is happening at perry high school, arlington prek-8, and university preparatory academy at margaret milliones school. Our goal is to learn what works from these schools and continue expanding a set of supports to other schools in the coming year with a focus on increasing daily attendance and eliminating chronic absenteeism. We are working in partnership with three key communities through grants from local foundations: pittsburgh's northside, hill district, and hilltop neighborhoods.b. Expanding partnerships: as we continue to learn and make an impact, we have begun engagement with more schools in the past year to improve their attendance outcomes through financial and coordinating supports. These schools are weil, miller, morrow, and faison.c. Parent nation: a team of two parent leaders work together with partner organizations in our partner schools to connect families to resources that would help them get their children to school every day. The team works closely with families to ensure 100% of students have what they need to arrive at school ready to learn every day. While most of this team's work is focused on our partnership schools, they continue to maintain the a+ schools parent hotline where families can call with their concerns from anywhere in the city of pittsburgh to get support around school needs.