Iowa 21st CCLC Local Evaluation Form Reporting Data for 2016-2017Page 1 of 33

Des Moines Public Schools

Iowa 21st CCLC Local Evaluation Form

Reporting Data for the 2016-2017 School Year

Overview

To assist grantees with meeting the local evaluation requirements, the Iowa DOE provides a standardized form for local evaluations of the 21st CCLC Programs. Each grantee is required to complete the local evaluation form with data from the previous school year. Cohorts 7-11are to be included for reporting data for the 2016-2017 school year (Cohort 12 will report data next year). Reported data will be from the Fall of 2016 and the Spring of 2017. Data will also be reported for the Summer of 2016.The checklist, below, serves as a list of required elements and provides a tracking tool for completion. See the Iowa 21st CCLC Local Evaluation Form Instructions 2017 for assistance in completing this form. The completed form should be saved with the filename <Grantee Name 21st CCLC Local Evaluation Form 2016-2017>.The form must be completed and submitted in Word format.

Local Evaluation Element / Complete?
  1. Title (Grantee Name) and File Saved with Correct Nomenclature
/ x
  1. General Information
/ x
  1. Basic Information Table
/ x
  1. Center Information Table
/ x
  1. Introduction/Executive Summary
/ x
  1. Demographic Data
/ x
  1. Attendance Summary Table (2016-2017 School Year and Summer 2016)
/ x
  1. Attendance Discussion
/ x
  1. Partnerships Summary Table
/ x
  1. Partnerships Discussion
/ x
  1. Parent Involvement
/ x
  1. Objectives
/ x
  1. GPRA Measures Data Table
/ x
  1. GPRA Measures Discussion
/ x
  1. Objective Summary Tables (all Cohorts)
/ x
  1. Objectives Discussion (including Statistical Analysis)
/ x
  1. Anecdotal Data
/ x
  1. Success stories
/ x
  1. Best Practices
/ x
  1. Pictures
/ x
  1. Student, teacher, parent, and community input
/ x
  1. Sustainability plans
/ x
  1. Formal sustainability plan, if available
/ x
  1. Discussion on steps to be taken for the future of the program
/ x
  1. Summary and recommendations
/ x
  1. Short summary of the program.
/ x
  1. Dissemination of local evaluation.
/ x
  1. Recommendations for objectives.
/ x
  1. Recommendations on future plans for change.
/ x
  1. General Information
  1. Basic Information Table

Required Information / Entered Information
Date Form Submitted / 11/15/2017
Grantee Name / Des Moines Public Schools
Program Director / Heidi Brown
E-mail /
Phone / 515-242-7561
Evaluator Name / Jamie Punke
E-mail /
Phone / 1-641-629-0896
Additional Information from Grantee (optional)
  1. Center Information Table

Cohort / Centers
Cohort 7 / Brody, Capitol View, King, McKinley, Monroe
Cohort 8 / Garton, Hillis, Morris, River Woods, Samuelson, Willard
Cohort 9 / Callanan, Goodrell, Harding, Hiatt, Hoyt, McCombs, Meredith, Weeks
Cohort 10 / Stowe
Cohort 11 / Cattell, Howe, Lovejoy, Oak Park
Additional Information from Grantee (optional)

NOTE: Cohort 12 will report data next year.

  1. Introduction/Executive Summary

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant provides funding for innovative programs to help students become successful, independent learners. Reading, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), arts, music, language, and service learning programs are tailored to student need and provide necessary skill building opportunities for students to gain 21st century workforce, academic, and social emotional skills. Other activities include a variety of topics; cooking, global arts, financial education, junior achievement, movie making, gardening, physical fitness activities (disc golf, volleyball, track, soccer, dancing, yoga, Zumba, etc.), and personal development (building healthy self-esteem and positive relationships.

The 21CCLC program at DMPS has become a leader among grantees in the state of Iowa because of its strong design, outstanding partnerships with community organizations, effective implementation of programs, and the overall positive impact on student achievement levels. 21CCLC bridges the gap between school, family, and community, forging connections and providing a comprehensive support system to help youth succeed academically and socially.

Des Moines Public Schools has been home to 21CCLC programs since 2007 and serves over 4,000 students each year. The initiative provides academic programming, recreational enrichment, and family literacy to students and families at the following schools:

  • Brody Middle School
  • Calllanan Middle School
  • Goodrell Middle School
  • Harding Middle School
  • Hiatt Middle School
  • Hoyt Middle School
  • McCombs Middle School
  • Meredith Middle School
  • Weeks Middle School
  • Capitol View Middle School
  • Cattell Elementary
  • Garton Elementary
  • Hillis Elementary
  • Howe Elementary
  • King Elementary
  • Lovejoy Elementary
  • McKinley Elementary
  • Monroe Elementary
  • Morris Elementary
  • Oak Park Elementary
  • Stowe Elementary
  • River Woods Elementary
  • Samuelson Elementary
  • Willard Elementary
  1. Demographic Data
  1. Attendance Tables including disaggregated data

2016-2017 School Year Attendance

Enter data in the appropriate fields as required in the tablesbelow.Data will be from the Fall of 2016 and the Spring of 2017. There are separate tables for the Summer of 2016.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Attendance Summary Table2016-2017
Attendees / Sex
Cohort / Attendance / Male / Female
7 / All / 960 / 490 / 470
Regular* / 502 / 256 / 246
8 / All / 1529 / 810 / 719
Regular* / 764 / 406 / 358
9 / All
Regular*
10 / All / 163 / 82 / 81
Regular* / 104 / 57 / 47
11 / All / 688 / 413 / 275
Regular* / 369 / 220 / 149

*Regular Attendees have attended the program for 30 or more days.

The “All Attendees” number is very high in each cohort, because it reflects any student with even one programming day in 21CCLC.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Attendance by Ethnicity Table2016-2017
Ethnicity
Cohort / White / Hispanic/
Latino / American Indian/
Alaska Native / Black/
African American / Asian/
Pacific Islander / Unknown Race
7 / All / 259 / 307 / 3 / 240 / 77 / 74 /
Regular* / 138 / 162 / 3 / 126 / 41 / 32 /
8 / All / 581 / 251 / 3 / 230 / 127 / 337
Regular* / 251 / 123 / 2 / 123 / 98 / 167 /
9 / All
Regular*
10 / All / 57 / 31 / 2 / 20 / 4 / 49 /
Regular* / 50 / 31 / 0 / 14 / 4 / 5 /
11 / All / 289 / 101 / 1 / 112 / 41 / 144 /
Regular* / 156 / 87 / 1 / 81 / 20 / 24 /

*Regular Attendees have attended the program for 30 or more days.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Attendance by Special Needs Table2016-2017
Special Needs
Cohort / LEP / FRPL / Special Needs
7 / All / 144 / 912 / 19
Regular* / 76 / 427 / 9
8 / All / 183 / 1379 / 12
Regular* / 90 / 628 / 12
9 / All
Regular*
10 / All / 14 / 133 / 4
Regular* / 11 / 83 / 4
11 / All / 60 / 612 / 11
Regular* / 36 / 307 / 7

*Regular Attendees have attended the program for 30 or more days.

Summer of 2016 AttendanceEnter data in the appropriate fields as required in the tables below.Data will be from the Summer of 2016 only. Data from the 2016-2017 school year should be provided in the tables above.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Attendance Summary Table Summer 2016
Attendees / Sex
Cohort / Attendance / Male / Female
7 / All / 229 / 115 / 114
Regular* / 203 / 101 / 102
8 / All / 386 / 190 / 196
Regular* / 346 / 181 / 165
9 / All / 779 / 335 / 444
Regular* / 779 / 335 / 444
10 / All / 64 / 30 / 34
Regular* / 51 / 21 / 30
11 / All
Regular*

*Regular Attendees have attended the program for 30 or more days.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Attendance by Ethnicity Table Summer 2016
Ethnicity
Cohort / White / Hispanic/
Latino / American Indian/
Alaska Native / Black/
African American / Asian/
Pacific Islander / Unknown Race
7 / All / 46 / 78 / 1 / 42 / 34 / 28 /
Regular* / 46 / 78 / 1 / 42 / 34 / 2 /
8 / All / 70 / 98 / 2 / 57 / 98 / 61 /
Regular* / 70 / 98 / 2 / 57 / 98 / 21 /
9 / All / 180 / 198 / 2 / 215 / 25 / 46 /
Regular* / 180 / 198 / 2 / 215 / 25 / 46 /
10 / All / 28 / 13 / 1 / 5 / 3 / 10 /
Regular* / 28 / 13 / 1 / 5 / 3 / 1 /
11 / All
Regular*

*Regular Attendees have attended the program for 30 or more days.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Attendance by Special Needs Table Summer 2016
Special Needs
Cohort / LEP / FRPL / Special Needs
7 / All / 104 / 229 / 9
Regular* / 104 / 200 / 9
8 / All / 150 / 323 / 4
Regular* / 150 / 323 / 4
9 / All / 161 / 758 / 1
Regular* / 161 / 758 / 1
10 / All / 7 / 48 / 2
Regular* / 7 / 48 / 2
11 / All
Regular*

*Regular Attendees have attended the program for 30 or more days.

  1. Attendance Discussion

21st Century Community Learning Centers programs in Des Moines Public schoolsare open five days per week, for 32 weeks per year and six weeks in the summer. Cohort 9 consists of eight middle schools which are served for thirty consecutive days in the summer only.

School Year / Summer
Average Hours Per Term (Operations) / Average Hours Per Term
480 (21CCLC exclusive) / 90 (21CCLC exclusive)
720 total afterschool hours per school year w/ Metro Kids program collaboration / 660 total summer hours available w/ Metro Kids program collaboration

All school year sites operate a minimum of 15 hours per week for 32 weeks each school year. 21CCLC programs operation Monday-Friday, including the Wednesday early out, and are available to all students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade. The program is broken into four eight-week sessions to allow students to choose different program options each session. Summer 21CCLC programs run for six weeks, with a minimum of thirty days offered. Summer programs are open a minimum of 15 hours per week. Program sites that also house Metro Kids programs collaborate to allow access to summer opportunities for all kids. Those locations are open the entire summer, with the exception of two days after the dismissal of school and three days before the school year begins to allow for professional development, and are open from 6:30am-5:30pm, Monday-Friday.

  1. Partnerships Summary Table

Enter data in the appropriate fields as required in the table below.Data will be from the Fall of 2016, the Spring of 2017 and the Summer of 2016.

Des Moines Public Schools 21st CCLC Program Partners for 2016-2017
Total Number of Partners = Enter total number of partners here
Contribution Type* / # of Paid Partners / # of Unpaid Partners
Provide Evaluation Services / 1 / 1
Raise Funds / 0 / 1
Provide Programming / Activity-Related Services / 34 / 4
Provide Food / 0 / 2
Provide Goods / 0 / 0
Provide Volunteer Staffing / 0 / 2
Provide Paid Staffing / 34 / 2
Other

*Note: A partner can provide more than one type of service.

  1. Partnerships Discussion

The 21st CCLC program provides academic enrichment programs that align with common core objectives to provide valuable learning and growth opportunities for students. Students in 21st CCLC programs receive academic enrichment support through coordination and communication between their daytime teachers and after-school staff. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) activities are offered, which are necessary for students to gain 21st century workforce skills. Other activities include a variety of topics, such as: cooking around the world, financial education, jewelry making, movie making, gardening, physical fitness activities (disc golf, canoeing, kayaking, hiking, dancing, etc.), and personal development (building healthy self-esteem and positive relationships.)

Des Moines 21st CCLC schools enjoy partnerships with many community organizations, including the YMCA of Greater Des Moines, ASAP (After School Arts Program), United Way, Community!Youth Concepts, Global Arts Therapy, CultureALL, Iowa Youth Chorus, Kids in Harmony, ISU Extension, Des Moines Public Schools ELL program, and DMPS Activities Department among others. Our strong partnerships enable us to provide exciting opportunities to students they might not normally have such as swimming lessons, college counseling and career planning, building and creating websites and using technology to teach others, and experiencing a variety of arts including; capoeira, cooking, architecture, spoken word poetry, story-telling and graphic design.

21st CCLC bridges the gap between school, family, and community, forging connections and providing a comprehensive support system to help youth succeed academically and socially. In recent years a unique challenge for our Des Moines schools is the population rise in refugees from Myanmar and newcomers from a variety of countries. Our 21st CCLC programs have provided a place for these students to begin learning and practicing the English language, while at the same time teaching and celebrating their individual culture, especially through our forged partnerships with Kids in Harmony and EMBARC among others. Families of ELL students are invited to Saturday classes, where adults have access to classes and information on daily life and basic needs such as grocery shopping, banking, using public transportation and the health care system. Transportation is provided for these programs as well. Additionally weekend family fieldtrips to area attractions such as the Historical Building and the Science Center, as well as regular Family Nights are offered to families with students participating in 21st CCLC programming. These are wonderful opportunities for families to learn and grow together while experiencing the unique culture Des Moines has to offer. Family Nights are often focused on literacy and math skills, STEM or arts.

We’ve celebrated many successes in 21CCLC this year. We are able to report on our 21CCLC grant cohort 11 which serves elementary schools Cattell, Lovejoy, Oak Park and Howe.DMPS 21CCLC has begun our first year of grant wide chess clubs, and we plan to hold a chess competition in December of this year. We also hosted a third annual culminating Culture Day event for the middle school summer program, which brought together over 400 students, parents and community members along with our partner CultureAll at Goodrell Middle School to investigate and celebrate cultures from all over the world in a fun and energetic half-day event.

We addressed all of the recommendations made in last years’ local evaluation- focusing more greatly on math programming in the middle school summer program, bolstering community partnerships by creating a district RFI process, and making changes in the district to combine our fee-based Metro-Kids program with 21CCLC programming to create an all-inclusive afterschool program with access for all students. We ran success collaboration pilots at three locations blending fee-based and 21CCLC funded programs and providing a sliding scale fee chart for students choosing the fee-based option to greater allow access to all students regardless of economic status. We added joint programming in the summer with our community partner Boys and Girls Club to consolidate summer program sites, reducing our overall costs and allowing us to provide summer programming to 800 middle school students district wide.

  1. Parent Involvement

Parental involvement is so important for student success, and at DMPS 21CCLC parent involvement is encouraged in a variety of ways. Programs hold a minimum of four parent nights per year – one per quarter, in additional to program wide family engagement opportunities including Arts and Music nights, musical theater performances, resources fairs, health clinics, cultural nights, game nights, technology safety seminars, and more. The highlight however is definitely the Half Pints Poetry Slam – hosted by Movement 515 at Central Campus, a high school located in Downtown Des Moines. Parents, teachers, fellow students, administrators and community members pack the house three times a year to participate in this amazing event. Samples of family night news stories to follow.

Half Pints. Whole Hearts. Complete Amazement.

The crew from Stowe Elementary School earned the coveted golden boom box at the Half Pint poetry slam.

So you figure seven schools x four half pints = more than a gallon of poetry, lots more, pouring forth from the stage in the Central Campus auditorium Friday at the second annual Movement 515 Half Pint Poetry Slam.

Yes, it gushed. From (let’s recite them alphabetically because, the heck with the point standings, they were all fearless, honest and eloquent) Capitol View, Findley, Garton, Hillis, King, Morris and Stowe ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS(!), heartfelt and personal poems were performed, original and memorized. They were soul-baring; everything from alcoholic dads to superhero moms. Kids young as third-graders rhapsodized about reaching for stars and becoming stars; about losing teeth and losing grandfathers; about friends and bullies and the often too-high price of popularity; about the changing seasons and their beloved schools and teachers.

They are mentored weekly at after-school 21st Century Community Learning Center programming by their teenaged role models, the trailblazing truth-spitters of Moverment 515 and the Central Campus Urban Leadership curriculum. It showed – and it flowed! The district is plumbed with a pipeline of poets and the faucets are wide open.

Besides their powerful words the performers Friday night had memorized the body language to match them. There must have been some nerves but not one showed itself as the half-pinted but absolutely wholehearted soothsayers bounded up to the microphone in a vast space filled with hundreds of exuberant, finger-snapping sooth-seekers. By midway through a competition where no one could possibly lose, competitors were confidently making their own mic height adjustments, like guests taking up an invitation to make themselves at home on stage.

Judges’ scores of 10s echoed through the hall throughout the night and somehow, after four rounds of the loveliest “bout” imaginable, the points were tallied and Stowe’s squad of Eagles came away with a victory and the coveted traveling trophy known as the Golden BoomBox.

And best of all? To be continued!

January Family Night

Tuesday, January 26th, 2017

January Family Night was another success! The theme of January was poetry! Hillis had a guest performer, Words Taylor, perform his original Spoken Word Poetry. After his performance, Words Taylor, worked with students and parents atstations (designed by our third grade staff)to encourage our young developing poets! The stations included; a Poe “tree” station, Reading Poetry, and Found Poetry stations. At the Poe “tree” station, students wrote original poems on a leaf and added it to our poetry tree. At the Reading Poetry station,families enjoyed reading poetry from poem books. Finally, at the Found Poetry station, families circled words in a magazine to create an original work with these words.

There was also an open mic night. Students were encouraged to play music, read original poetry, or read poetry they found in provided poem books. Fun was had by all and it was fun to watch the budding performers at Hillis!

The next family night is scheduled for Thursday, February 18th from 5:00-6:30! Don’t miss out!!

Family Fun Night at the Science Center

Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Family Fun Night is here! Come out to the Des Moines Science Center on May 16th from 5:00-8:00pm. Your admission is free and there are fun exhibits for the whole family to enjoy. There will be a shuttle bus provided from River Woods Elementary. You are welcome to drive yourself, but parking in the city ramp will cost. We look forward to seeing all of our families out and about at the Science Center.