Reporting your Successes

An Important Special Note About Your Reports:  Please Read!

We are increasingly aware of the importance of telling the story of your successes - both as narratives, and in measurable outcomes.  In fact, we have been directly told that the demise of Learn and Serve America was because Congress did not have stories such as these, that they did not understand the value of service-learning in engaging students around the country!

Your reports are more important than ever this year.  Please do take the time to complete our YSA Community Impact Survey, all of your RMC Surveys - for students, teachers, and community partners, and your LASSIE Reports.  As we continue to seek renewal of federal funding, we need to have the data that show the measurable outcomes of your hard work!


YSA Community Impact Survey - DUE JUNE 3rd
 
YSA asks a standard set of questions of all of our grantees. Most questions we ask all grantees are included in the RMC Surveys or the LASSIE Report. However, there are a few questions that we need to ask you separately. We've created a very short, 3 question survey to collect this information. Please take 5 minutes and complete this by next Friday, June 3. http://bit.ly/iAimJT
 
 
RMC Surveys - DUE JUNE 3rd
 
You should have been receiving regular e-mail updates from Linda Fredericks, about your RMC report requirements.  She has just sent a final reminder to complete the Student Surveys, Teacher Surveys, and Community Partner Surveys.  Also, if you have not yet sent in parent permission forms and class rosters to RMC Research, please do so now.  These are needed for both STEMester and comparison students. The rosters need to include students' names, birthdates, and school ID numbers. 

All surveys and reports need to go to Linda, at the address below.  If you have any questions regarding this request, please email Linda at fredericks@rmcdenver.com
 
Linda Fredericks
Research Associate
RMC Research
633 17th Street, Suite 2100
Denver, CO 80202
 
 
LASSIE Report - DUE JUNE 15th
 
The completion of LASSIE is a Learn and Serve America grant requirement.  If you were unable to attend the February 28th LASSIE webinar, the session has been recorded and posted under the "Help" section on www.lsareports.org.  The "Help" section is located on the top-right corner of the www.lsareports.org webpage. 
 
If you do not know your LASSIE log-in information, you can call the LASSIE hotline at 866-337-8751.

We will check in with you again next week, to be sure everyone has what is needed to complete all reports on time.  

2011-2012 STEMester of Service Grant Applications

We will be posting the new applications for the 2011-2012 STEMester of Service school year in the next couple of weeks. We will be accepting applications from four different groups:  

1. Teachers who started in 2009-2010 and who served as mentor teachers in 2010-2011: For 2011-2012, you will be required to recruit a teacher at another school in your district.
2. Teachers who started in 2010-2011 as mentees of 2009-2010 grantees:  For 2011-2012, you will be required to bring on another teacher from your own school.  If this is not possible, you can work with your mentor teacher and recruit a second teacher at another school in your district.
3. Teachers who started in 2010-2011 at schools new to the STEmester of Service program:  for 2011-2012, you will be required to another teacher from your own school.
4. Teachers at schools new to the STEMester of Service program for 2011-2012. 

We will be connecting with each of our current STEMester teachers in the next month, to learn about your plans for 2011-2012.  As well, look for additional information in the next newsletter.


2011 Youth Service Institute

Our Youth Service Institute is scheduled for October 24-26, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. The YSI will again be a required training element for all 2011-2012 STEMester of Service grantees. If you are reapplying, please save these dates now!


Semester of Service 2012

Semester of Service 2012 will launch on MLK Day (January 16, 2012) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 20-22, 2012).  

Visiting your Schools 

Mr. Garwick's seventh grade class at Warner Middle School worked to restore abalone (snails) and kelp forest habitat in southern California. His students share their reflections on their project in two blogs which appeared before GYSD on YSA's "Add Service" blog: 

www.ysa.org/blog/2011/03/31/mr-garwick%E2%80%99s-seventh-grade-class-saves-abalone 

www.ysa.org/blog/2011/03/23/seventh-graders-save-southern-california%E2%80%99s-abalone  

You can friend their classroom abalone on Facebook.