REFERENCES TO CHANGE AS A RESULT OF URBAN DREAMS

Inputs	Process	Target Output
Resources provided by U.S. Department of Education, OUSD and Project Partners	Development and implementation of innovative technology strategies, enhanced content and increased use of computers in schools and homes	Significant gains in student achievement in Language Arts and Social Studies for OUSD high school students

Inputs

Process

Target Outputs

Financial, Physical and Equipment Resources:

	Resources Provided by U.S. Department of Education awarded a five-year Technology Innovation Challenge Grant (TICG)
	Resources provided by OUSD
	Resources provided by Partners

Human Resources:

	Project Leader
	UD Project Staff
	CER Evaluation Team
	Curriculum and Instruction Staff
	Project Partners
	OUSD Research and Technology Departments
	Participating Teachers (PT)
	Students
	Parents

Other:

Guidelines, rules and regulations from the United States Department of Education Federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant

The DEM plan is created by Urban Dreams (UD) project staff and the Center for Evaluation and Research (CER) evaluation team. It includes program narratives, component maps and input, process, and output (IPO) statements for each of the four program components (Management, Professional Development, Technology Community Involvement, and Parent Involvement) on increasingly detailed levels.

The plan is updated to reflect not only original resources, goals (outputs) and processes, but will reflect discrepancies in intended outputs and elaborate on the nature of those discrepancies and other formative data contributing to project staff decisions for change grounded in that data. This method of evaluation provides a line of information that shows original intents and explains changes based on formative data, which serendipitously helps in creating an accurate audit trail for the evaluation.

The DEM plan enables stakeholders to examine in detail the original intent of the project as well as the path it is taking (including documentation of all evaluation activities, data analysis and reports on project) though the five years of implementation to reach the identified goals.

Web site maintained for project information and evaluation activities.

		Part 1
Project Map		Project Narrative		Inputs/Processes/Outputs (IPO)
		Discrepancy Evaluation Model (DEM) Evaluation IPOs
		Management Component
Management Narrative	Management Tasks	Management Equipment	Site Physical Needs	Hardware	Partners
		Student Achievement Component
Student Achievement Narrative		Objective 1: Language Arts and Social Studies		Objective 2: Technology Systems
		Professional Development
Professional Development Narrative	Technology Embedded Curriculum	Staff Development	Management Tasks	Participating Teacher Training	Content Tasks
Summer Institute Component	Curriculum Development	Technology Integration	Current Awareness of Standards	Tech Tools and New Curriculum	Partner Projects
		Community/Parent Component
Parent Community Narrative		Parent Involvement and Community Engagement		The Parent University	Equipment Dispersed
		Access to Technology
		Part II Planning - 2001-2002
Student Achievement		Professional Development		Technology Access and Parent Involvement
		Logic Model

	Improve student achievement in language arts and social studies classes for OUSD students enrolled in grades 9-12
	Develop student historical thinking skills in a technologically supported context
	Improve student expository writing skills in a technologically supported context
	Provide the necessary professional development to ensure that curriculum embedded technology strategies, techniques, lesson plans and best practices are conveyed to teachers
	Provide content enrichment through on-line and off-line activities
	Provide classrooms with access to hardware, software and other technology tools chosen to support the OUSD, state and national content standards
	Strengthen the home-school connection
	Provide student and parental access to computers at home through a community service and training program

Inputs	Process	Process Status	Outputs	Outputs Status
Project Leader UD Staff Curriculum and Inst. staff Appropriate Project partners	P0.1 UD Staff and consultants are selected, processes and contracted	Accomplished	O 0.1 Two TSAs, and clerical support in place, contracts signed and approved by board for consultants, contracts and memos of understanding written for partners.	Accomplished
	P0.2 Participating classrooms are visited to determine physical needs , i.e., tables, wiring, security,	Accomplished	O 0.2 Arrangements with other OUSD divisions made to do any necessary remediation so teachers and students have access to working equipment in a high expectation learning environment.	Accomplished
	P0.3 Equipment and instructional media chosen by interviewing vendors, teachers, seeking out recommendations of the Tech Services dept. researching the equipment testing institute.	Accomplished	O0.3 Students and teachers and have access to instructional media of high quality that is cost efficient, effective and powerful.	Accomplished
	P0.4 Contracts, scheduling and planning with partners is initiated and continues on an ongoing basis.	Ongoing	O0.4 All Partners and subsidiary projects are supporting grant goals	Ongoing – Evaluators to gather information concerning the extent to which partners are participating
	P 0.5 Assessment and evaluation is planned, evaluators contracted for required evaluation of grant	Accomplished	O 0.5 Center for Evaluation and Research (CER) team in place	Accomplished
	P 0.6 Other district initiatives and departments like C&I , Tech Services Digital High School, Chabot Techbridge, OTX, mentors, polled for parallel projects, community organizations are kept informed of progress of grant and grant activities by web pages and/or hard copy newsletter	We should include in staff interviews questions concerning how the initiative is coordinated with other district programs.	00.6 Efforts are coordinated, duplication of effort is minimized, maximum support generated.	Ongoing – this is a part of the annual interview of project staff

Inputs	Process	Current Status	Outputs	Outputs Status
Project Leader UD Staff Curriculum and Inst. staff Appropriate Project partners	P0.1.1 Project Manager selected	Accomplished	O 0.1.1 Implementation of the grant is managed.	Accomplished
	P 0.1.2 Tech Integration TSA is selected	Accomplished	O 0.1.2 Site visits, coaching schedules established and implemented.	Accomplished
	P 0.1.3 Clerk typist is selected	Accomplished	O 0.1 3 Ordering of equipment on OBARS, financial aspects of grant in place	Accomplished
	P 0.1.4 Tech support team selected and put into place.	Accomplished	O 0.1.4 Roll out schedules, equipment benched and loaded	Accomplished
	P 0.1.5 Consultants are selected and put into place.	Accomplished	O 0.1.5 Coaching and inservice are conducted, starting with TL corps and continuing into UDSIs and throughout the school year.	Accomplished

Inputs	Process	Current Status	Outputs	Outputs Status
Project Leader UD Staff Curriculum and Inst. staff Appropriate Project partners	P0.2.1 District and UD staff collaborate to establish most effective physical setup of hardware, software	Ongoing	O 0.2.1 Students and teachers have effective tools with which to improve LA and SS achievement	Annual question of teachers on the effectives of the tech tools are and their impact.
	P 0.2.2 School sites are visited to determine which rooms are wired and if not how to move teachers into rooms that are wired. Facilities and Site notified of necessary remediation measures.	Ongoing	O 0.2.2 Every participating teacher and their students has an Internet connection to be able to do investigative research projects	Ask staff and teachers about Internet access by all students.
	P 0.2.3 Furniture needs and security is arranged. Facilities and Site notified of necessary remediation measures.	Ongoing	O 0.2 3 Equipment is for students and teachers to have access to instructional media necessary to achieve grant goals.	We need a thorough description of the current status of technology in the schools and what it would take (teachers, staff) opinions to make technology more accessible.

Urban Dreams Technology Challenge Grant

PART I

Program Description

Project Map

Overall Project Inputs/Process/Output (IPO)

Project IPO - Evaluation

Management Component

Management Narrative

Management Component – Urban Dreams

Management Tasks

Equipment

To what extent are teachers using technology in their classrooms?

Site Physical Needs

Management (purchase of equip, scheduling etc. - Do teachers have the necessary hardware to complete grant activities?

Management contacts with partners

Student Achievement

Student Achievement Narrative