Guidelines for End-Of-Year Program Performance Narrative

GUIDELINES FOR END-OF-YEAR PROGRAM PERFORMANCE NARRATIVE IN PY 2015-2016

ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM

INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS 2015-2016 End of Year Report Guidance

WORKFORCE INNOVATION & OPPORTUNITY ACT – TITLE II (Transition year)

Submit ONE ORIGINAL:

Wyoming Community College Commission Adult Basic Education Program Attn: Marcia Hess Hathaway Building, 5th Floor 2300 Capitol Ave Cheyenne, WY 82002

TO: AE Directors FROM: Marcia Hess RE: End-of-Year Narrative Report for AE Report Due Date: August 8, 2016

This packet will give guidance for the AE end-of-year narrative report.

1. Documents for AE Programs

A. A narrative section in which you are to answer the questions below: (1) Describe successes in and challenges to the overall program this current year. Include any changes or modifications made to your program to enhance student performance, staff performance, and new or closed class sites. List the goals your program had for program improvement this year.

If you serve ESL students, describe your transitional plan on how you transition your ESL students into ABE classes, and/or to work.

(2) Performance Data Analysis: Evaluate the effectiveness of your local adult basic education activities based on the performance measures 2015- 16 NRS Table 4 for educational gains & Table 5 for the HSEC core measures. Describe the growth and/or downward changes experienced by your program at each EFL level over last year’s performance. Explain why you believe the level changes occurred. You may also include information on changes in classes, staff, and other influences that may be reasons for increases or decreases in performance. Also include explanations for why you believe students separated before completing at each educational functioning level.

(3) Describe how your AE program has supported the integration of AE activities with each of the following: other adult education, family literacy, career development, and employment training activities in your service area during this year.

(4) Professional Development Describe your efforts to improve teacher/staff quality. Describe activities and training to create and support higher accountability and teacher quality. You may include targeted professional development, program level goal setting, and implementing the LACES data collection system training or other training you believe is promotes teacher quality.

B. NRS TABLES: Include your NRS tables 1-8 & 10 which cover the time period of July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. Describe the post-testing rate (percentage of students when comparing Table 4 and Table 4B and if it is below 50% give strategies to improve this rate for next year.

C. English Literacy and Civics Programs

a. Describe the activities the EL Civics funds supported. Include EL Civics goals and objectives your program created for this year also include the results of each activity and what was learned or demonstrated. b. Describe the number of participants for each activity, goals they achieved and percentage that achieved the goals of the activities. If you used a rubric for scoring please include that. c. Describe the demographics of your participants (number, gender, ethnicity, and age) d. Describe the overall success and challenges your EL Civics program has encountered this year.

NOTE: Please use this outline format for answering all the questions in this narrative section.

D. Teacher Information: The teacher information form is included to be reproduced and completed by each new teacher/instructor at all of your sites. Please confirm that all teacher information has been entered into LACES. As you hire new teachers please have them fill these out. Let WCCC know if this teacher is replacing a teacher that has left.

Update LACES on teacher and director status after June 30, 2015. Print and submit the list of staff in LACES for your program.

E. Additional reports: a. Cash and In-kind reports b. Fiscal Status Reports for each grant c. Data Quality Checklist (include program name)

ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROGRAM

Wyoming Community College Commission

Program Year 2015-2016 End of Year Report [Please Included This Cover Page]

Grantee/ Agency:

ABE Program Director:

Address:

City/State/Zip:

Telephone Number: Fax Number:

E-Mail Address:

Signature of Authorized Representative Date

Printed Name of Authorized Representative

Print Name & Phone number of Person responsible for fiscal records WYOMING ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

Name: ______

Program: ______City:______

E-Mail Address: ______

Telephone Number: ______

Education Level Attained: Some College Courses: ______Associates Degree: ______

Bachelor: ______Major(s): ______Minor(s):______

Masters: ______Major(s): ______

Doctorate: ______Major(s): ______

What is your teaching area? ABE Full Time ______ABE Part Time ______ESL Full Time ______ESL Part Time ______AEL/ESL Full Time ______ABE/ESL Part Time ______

Adult Education Personnel

Function Part-time Personnel Full-time Personnel check check Local Teachers Teachers’ Years of Experience Less than one year One to three years More than three years Teacher Certification Not certified Adult Education Certificate K-12 Certification Special Education Certification TESOL Certification