City Year Sacramento: Bank of America Team Newsletter FY14 Edition

FY14 Edition

Bank of America Team
at Rosa Parks K-8
Annual Newsletter
City Year Community Day
May 3rd, 2014 marked the
culmination of many months of planning for
the first ever City Year Community Day at
Rosa Parks K-8. The day was influenced by
the recent introduction of elementary
students into the school which had
previously been a 7th and 8th middle
school. The school really wanted to give the
new elementary students a space that
would welcome them and feel like their own.
Members of Rosa Parks and the
Meadowview Community were invited to
come help beautify the campus. Nearly 100
volunteers showed up on the warm and
windy Saturday to give a day of service. The
day long event was filled with projects that
included the building of new planter boxes,
setting up of a school community garden,
and the painting of murals, four-squares,
and hopscotch areas on the playground. It
was an incredible time where Corps
Members had the pleasure of working side
by side with many of their students to
improve their school.
The day was filled with smiles as the
students saw the transformation of their dull
blacktop into a colorful place where they
would spend the rest of their year. Not only
would it be a place of enjoyment but a
space to learn in an alternative way, as the
four-square courts were themed off of the
four seasons and the four stages of the
water-cycle. It was a very positive
experience

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experience for all, most especially the kids,
many of which had their first experience
with community service that day! The
event was intended to not only beautify the
elementary campus, but also to build a
legacy of serving one’s community with the
students.

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Nothing could compare to the sight
of the students’ faces on the following
Monday morning. The students were full of
appreciation and joy for the new look of
their blacktop and playground. Rosa Parks
K-8 was now a place they could really call
their ‘home’.

In This !
Edition

Hmong New Year……2
After-School.…..…….2
Black History Month..2
Twitter…………………2
Backpack Drive..……3
Interventions…………3
Part of Our Village….3
RP Sports…..…….…..4

City Year Sac
Data !Wall

(# of students)
Attendance…………76
Behavior…………….35
ELA…………………335
Math………………….53
Total………….…….499
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RP Data Wall
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(# of students)
Attendance…………52
ELA…………………113
Math………………….47
Total………………..202
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RP FY14!Results
(% of students improved)

Attendance….……53%
ELA………………93%
Math……………….51%
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