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Performance Measures
- School Day Tutoring
350 AmeriCorps members will tutor 3,500 students (10 per member on average) as reported in Monthly Member Team Reports, with 90% of tutored students improving their reading performance by at least one letter grade over what would normally be expected as measured by Classroom Teacher Surveys.
- Extended School Day and Year Tutoring
350 AmeriCorps members will tutor 4,200 students (12 students per member on average) for 1,400 hours (4 hours per member on average) each week before and after school, in the summer and during school breaks in public schools and pre-schools, and in community and faith-based organizations as reported in Monthly Member Team Reports, resulting in 90% of the tutored students who are tutored regularly (2 or more times per week) improving class work, attitude toward school, and behavior in school by one letter grade over what would normally be expected as measured by Classroom Teacher Surveys.
- Volunteer Recruitment for School and Community Service
350 AmeriCorps members will collaborate with state and local community and faith-based organizations to recruit 17,500 volunteers who will serve 52,500 hours as volunteer readers and by assisting with National Service Day Projects (Make a Difference Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Read Across America Day, and National Youth Service Day), performing such duties as posting event announcements, registering participants, setting up and manning activity stations, painting / restorations, planting trees, area clean-up, and passing out health or education related literature, benefitting 330,000 people as measured by the Monthly Member Team Reports and National Service Day Reports.
- Member Training and Development
350 AmeriCorps members will participate in monthly (on average) trainings conducted in collaboration with state agencies, partnering universities and community and faith-based organizatons through 6 courses including: 1. Tutor Training, 2. Volunteer Recruitment and Management, 3. Citizenship / Civic Engagement and Homeland Security, 4. Accessing Higher Education, 5. Personal Skills Development (including CPR), and 6. Life After AmeriCorps, resulting in at least 95% of the Corps reporting at least a rating of three (good) on a four point scale based on monthly member Training Evaluations and End of Year Member Surveys.
- Member Team Leader Training and Development
Member team leaders (estimate 80 - one from each school service site) will attend three state trainings on leadership skills, national service day projects, giving public presentations, and specialized volunteer recruitment and management training resulting in 95% of the member team leaders indicating that they have improved their leadership skills based on the Team Leader Training Evaluations and the End of Year Team Leader Survey.
- Citizenship, Civic Engagement, and Homeland Security
350 AmeriCorps members will conduct Citizenship / Civic Engagement and Homeland Security activities by starting a Jr. Citizens Corps Club at their school service site and conducting one public community workshop about homeland security and disaster / emergency preparedness, with materials, support, and technical assistance (from MEMA, the Red Cross, and ARM Program Staff) and in collaboration with state agencies and local community and faith-based organizations, resulting in a total of all school teams (estimate 80) conducting projects benefiting 3,500 people as measured by the Citizenship / Civic Engagement and Homeland Security Project Reports.
7. Other Specialized Member Training
Specialized training will be provided for smaller sub-groups of the Corps
including Mentors of Children of Incarcerated Parents Corps, America Learns
Corps, Hurricane Rebuilding Corps, and Emergency Preparedness Response
Corps.
Please note: ARM members should be aware of the program's performance measures and work to achieve and exceed them throughout the year. Members should be able to comment on their progress toward each objective. Each school's America Learns members complete weekly surveys indicating progress toward program objectives.
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