REL West is partnering with the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) to decrease chronic absence rates among middle and high school students, by focusing on the district’s Expanded Learning programming as one of several strategies to achieve this goal. The partnership activities will help SAUSD to use data and evidence to understand the extent to which its Expanded Learning programs are meeting the district’s mission and vision, how programming might be improved, how to quantify the benefits of these programs for students and families, and how Expanded Learning programming is contributing – alongside other strategies – to the goal of reducing chronic absence rates.
Current Projects
REL West is collaborating with Santa Ana Unified School District’s (SAUSD) Expanded Learning programs and Research & Evaluation office to develop a set of descriptive data snapshots that will focus aspects of student participation and outcomes defined in the program’s logic model. The descriptive snapshots will help SAUSD understand the current state of their programs, inform the development of research questions for a follow-up study of program effectiveness, and develop capacity within the district to pose and answer questions about their programs.
Completed Projects
REL West provided a series of trainings to SAUSD on the purpose and structure of logic models, how to draft a logic model, how to ensure alignment of data and measures with each component of the logic model, and how the use of the logic model can support continuous improvement toward program outcomes. REL West provided resources such as logic model templates, definitions, case examples, and strategies for developing logic models.