Program Goals
Goals and Objectives
Kent’s 21st CCLC program established goals and objectives that carried across all six years of programming. Program goals and objectives focused on student academic achievement, school attendance, program attendance, family engagement, and community partnership, as follows:
- Increase student achievement in reading and math
- At least 50% of regular attendees will increase their achievement in reading/language arts from the fall to spring.
- At least 50% of regular attendees will increase their achievement in mathematics from the fall to spring.
- At least 30% of regular attendees will meet standard on state assessments.
- Improve academic and learning behaviors in the classroom
- At least 70% of regular attendees will improve on turning in their homework on time and completing homework to the teachers’ satisfaction.
- At least 70% of regular attendees will improve on coming to school motivated to learn, behaving well in class and getting along well with others.
- At least 90% of regular attendees will have a daily school day attendance rate of 90% or greater.
- Serve a meaningful number of students at each site
- Meeker– Serve 100 students per day and 100 students will attend at least 30 days, and 60% of regular attending students will attend 60 or more days.
- Mill Creek – Serve 100 students per day and 100 students will attend at least 30 days, and 60% of regular attending students will attend 60 or more days.
- Increase ratings on the YPQA each year
- Ratings on the dimensions of interaction and engagement by the local evaluators will increase each year of the project.
- Ratings on the dimensions of interaction and engagement by the local evaluators will equal or better the average ratings of other programs in the state by the last year of the project.
- Increase the knowledge and skills of families about how to support the education of their children
- 80% of regular attendees will attend at least one family event.
- At least 80% of participating families will agree or strongly agree that they learned new information that will be helpful to their child or family.
- At least 80% of participating families will agree or strongly agree that they plan to use at least one of the ideas learned.
- Increase the number of community partners who collaborate with the project
- The program will collaborate with at least three community partners in the first year of operation.
- The program will add at least one new partner in each subsequent year of the program.
In addition to these long-term goals and objectives, each site also identified priorities as part of their annual planning process in Fall of 2019-20 (Year 4), 2020-21 (Year 5) and 2021-22 (Year 6). Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, priorities in 2020-21 and 2021-22 included:
- Meeting student and family needs, including support services, and expanding means to connect families with essential resources
- Increased focus on meaningful engagement of students/families served, in response to student and family needs, and centering socio-emotional well-being
- New means of evaluating forms of engagement, with a focus on more regular attendance for students and increased events for families.