program evaluation - Cornerstone Crossroads Academy

PROGRAM
EVALUATION
CCA 2016
Context: Purpose
• Identify what happened in the 201516 school year.
• Ensure we are meeting our quarterly and
annual goals.
• Compare 2015-16 with previous years. • Learn how to improve for the 2016-17
school year.
• Identify trends with students and
• Reporting to donors / foundations.
programming.
Context: Purpose
• “Getting from here to there.” – Bill
Hybels
• “Humble, Hungry, & Smart” – Patrick
Lencioni
• “The two best friends of execution are
simplicity and transparency.” – Chris
McChesney
• Our Mission is accomplished through
consistently executing measurable
goals.
• Our Team is unified by individual and
collective accountability.
How many times do you hear the
speakers refer to ideas
connected with measurement?
Context: Definitions
• Unit of Measurement:
• School
• Student
• Program
• Classroom
• Levels of Data:
• Nominal (Categories – graduate)
• Ordinal (Rankings – valedictorian / salutatorian)
• Interval (Consistent Distance – GPA)
When / How do we collect data?
• Daily (attendance, Apex progress)
• Weekly (C Service hours, Life Coaching
sessions)
• Monthly (Staff Reports Weeks 1-4 / 5-8)
• Quarterly (Staff Reports)
• Annually (End of Year Report)
What data do we collect?
• Demographics
• Background
• Previous incarceration
• Who does the student live with
• Homelessness
• Age, ethnicity, gender
• Academic
• Number of incoming credits
• Reading / Math grade level equivalency
• Incoming GPA
• Progress at CCA (Outputs)
• Progress toward completing APEX courses
• Number of credits earned each quarter /
year
• GPA at CCA
• Reading and Math improvements
• Etc.
• Programming at CCA (Inputs)
• Hours of Life coaching
• Hours with Reading Tutors
• N Classes with IFS Reading / Math teacher
• Etc.
END OF YEAR
EVALUATION
CCA 2015-16
Questions Addressed
• Who are the CCA students?
• Where do the students come from?
• How do the students perform while at CCA?
• What do CCA students do after high school?
• What actions does CCA take to provide opportunities for students?
• Who partners with CCA to accomplish the school’s mission?
Who are CCA
students?
• Overcomers!
• 54% previously incarcerated
• <7th grade level in reading and math
• Average age = 18 years, but 67%
percent enter CCA at age 18 or below
• Most enter with <10 high school credits
• 24% of the students enter with no high
school credits
• 40% of our students homeless within
the previous 2 years
Who are CCA students?
Demographics of Students Served 2015‐16
African‐American Females
Hispanic Females
White Females
African‐American Males
Hispanic Males
White Males
Who are CCA students?
Where do CCA students come from?
• 1/3 referred through community partners
(HIS BridgeBuilders, Café Momentum,
Crossfire Ministries, Our Friends Place)
• 1/3 family and friend referrals
• 1/3 other
• 20% Juvenile Probation Officers
• 8% churches
• 4% public schools
Where do CCA students come from?
• Returning students
• 52% graduate or continue enrollment
• 25% return rate (34% in 2015-16)
• 27% graduate
• 10% of students previously withdrawn due
to attendance or behavior re-enroll and
graduate
• Most students live close to CCA but
move frequently during the year.
Students are able to get to school
using DART bus passes
How do the students perform while
at CCA?
• Attendance
• 91% in 2014-15
• 94% in 2015-16
• Credits Earned
• Reading and Math
• Pro-Social Behavior
• Graduation
How do the
students
perform while
at CCA?
• Attendance
• Credits Earned
• Reading and Math
• Pro-Social Behavior
• Graduation
How do the
students
perform
while at
CCA?
• Attendance
• Credits Earned
• Reading and Math
• Pro-Social Behavior
• Graduation
How do the
students
perform
while at
CCA?
• Attendance
• Credits Earned
• Reading and Math
• Pro-Social Behavior
• >2500 hours of
community
service annually
• >over 2700
volunteer hours in
2015-16
• Graduation
How do the students perform while
at CCA?
• Attendance
• Credits Earned
• Reading and Math
• Pro-Social Behavior
• Graduation
What do CCA students
do after high school?
• Eighty-five percent (85%) of our
graduates from the past 6 years now
work full-time, attend college, or
serve in the military
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT, COMPARED TO PEERS WHO DO NOT COMPLETE HIGH SCHOOL,
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES SAVE SOCIETY ROUGHLY $3,000 PER YEAR IN TAXES ACROSS
THEIR LIFESPANS. ASSUMING AN AVERAGE LIFE SPAN OF 55 YEARS BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATION, EACH STUDENT GRADUATING FROM CCA WHO WOULDN'T HAVE
GRADUATED OTHERWISE SAVES SOCIETY $165,000. USING THIS CALCULATION, CCA HAS
ALREADY CONTRIBUTED AN ESTIMATED NET GAIN TO SOCIETY OF OVER $2 MILLION BY
INVESTING IN THE LIVES OF STUDENTS EACH SCHOOL YEAR.
- Dr. Ken Springer, SMU, 2014
What actions does CCA take to
provide opportunities for students?
A.K.A. How do we LOVE
our students?
Life Coaching / Case
Management
• 457 Life Coaching sessions addressing areas of concern at home, in
the work place, in relationships, and planning for the future
• Case Management
• 7 students were brought up to date on immunizations
• 7 students procured a Texas state ID
• 12 students obtained copies of their Social Security
cards
• 7 students obtained copies of their birth certificates
• 6 students took driver education
• 15 students received vision exams
• 4 students received dental help
• 19 students opened DCCCD accounts
• 28 students signed up for Collegeboard.com accounts
• 17 students completed TSI testing at El Centro Community
College
• 14 students opened FAFSA accounts
• 1 student received legal help multiple times
• Students were taken for medical issues multiple times
Student Work
Program
• 9 student hired to take care of facilities,
serving meals, community clean-up,
house demo, and running a sports camp
for elementary students
• 6 students selected for the Working
Warriors class with emphasis on life skills
for work and principles of faith in finances
• 17 students benefitted from the 2015
CCA Student Work Program. In some
cases their work led to employment at
Wild About Harry’s, Weir’s Furniture,
Parkland Hospital, Café Momentum, and
summer work programs with partner
ministries including Young Life and
Americorps
Athletics
• 17 individuals either trained, attended
running related events, or participated
in a race as a part of the
#2ndChanceStriders Running Club
• Key sponsors included: Preston Center
Personal Training, National Black
Marathoners Association, Tony Reed,
and Fit & Faithful Trainer Chelsea Cork
• Students participated in the NBMA
Banquet, the Hypnotic Donut Dash 5K,
the Rock N’ Roll Dallas Half Marathon,
the Skyline 10K, and the Luke’s Locker
All Comers Track Meet
Field Trips
• Colorado (September 17-21, 2015),
• War Room Movie
• Movement Day Greater Dallas
• End-of-Quarter celebration at the principal’s house
• Southwest Airlines Headquarters
• DHWI Cook Off
• UNT Dallas
• Main Event
• Texas Rangers Game
Connections Class / Specialized
Tutoring
• Connections Class.
• Guys/Girls Bible Study on the book of James
• Breakfast and Bible (student led)
• College & Career Class
• Goal setting- SMART Goals, Timelines, Leadership Style Assessment, a Student Worker panel discussion, Group
Dynamics, Key Components of an effective team, and Options for Higher Education
• Guest Speakers included Bolanle Alade- Orthopedic Surgeon, Daniel Castillo- Auto Mechanic, Dr. Tracy BrownDorsey- Carrington College, Earlina Green- Author, Speaker, Sports Management, Regina Kaye Green & Naomi
Green- Think Green Law Firm, Garrett Hunter- El Centro STEM Institute, Tiffany Johnson- Baylor Graduate/ Vickery
Meadow Youth Development, Ronald Patrick- Texas Southern University, and Thana Simmons- Insurance Claims
Adjuster.
• Specialized Tutoring.
• Scott Ferris (test taking, ASVAB prep, & note taking training)
• Maurice Hamilton (computer programming & entrepreneurial training)
WHO PARTNERED
WITH CCA TO
ACCOMPLISH THE
MISSION?
Team Work makes the Dream Work!
• Board of Directors
• Café Momentum
• Shady Grove Baptist Church
• HIS BridgeBuilders
• Mt. Sylvan Baptist Church,
• Community Partners
• Our Friends Place
• Royal Ambassadors
• Volunteers
• Crossfire Ministries
• Park Cities Young Men’s Service League
• Donors
• Cornerstone Baptist Church
• 2ndSaturday.org
• Cornerstone Kitchen
• Men of Nehemiah
• Watermark Community Church
• Viola’s House
• Park Cities Baptist Church
• EqualHeart Americorps
• Staff
• The Village Church
Team Work makes the Dream Work!
• Board of Directors
• The Women of Saint Michael
• The David M. Crowley Foundation
• Staff
• The Davis Family Foundation
• The Hawn Foundation
• Maverick Capital Foundation
• The Bill & Katie Weaver Charitable Trust
• The Ninnie Baird Foundation
• The South Dallas Trust Fund
• Community
Partners
• Volunteers
• Donors
• The Trevor Rees-Jones Foundation
• The Harold Simmons Foundation
 Dan Youman, of Texas Instruments, provides laptops for the students, making learning
available 24/7
 CCA is a World Vision school, receiving school supplies that last the entire year
 BBVA Compass Bank assists students in opening bank accounts
2016-17
Report
• What are the lessons learned from
the data?
• What additional questions do we
have?
• What data do we need to collect in
order to measure / answer the
questions?
• When should we gather the data?
• Who is responsible?
• When will it be reported?
(Graphics from Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage
(2012) & The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team (2002))
Staff
Evaluations
• Based on job descriptions
• Include reporting on Weekly /
Monthly / Quarterly goals
• Incorporates self-evaluation
• Used for growth / development / job
placement
(Graphic from The 4 Disciplines of Execution,
McChesney, Covey, & Huling, 2012)