21APR Wrap Up

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Our office is happy to report that most grantees’ data was approved by the Monday, February 5th deadline. If you would like a copy of the approved data entered for your grant sites, you can download a PDF by clicking the three blue dots to the left of each site to expose the “Download PDF” button shown below:

It is a good practice to save PDF using a file name that includes your IRN and a date or “summer 2022” or “2022-2023 school year” to easily distinguish between records from each year of your grant cycle.

NOTE: if you entered data prior to marking a site “inactive” or entered values for a question to which you ultimately answered “no data to report,” you may see remnants of the previously entered data in your PDF. This data was not transferred to the USDOE’s 21APR website.

Reminders for grantees as they collect and prepare your summer 2023 and 2023-2024 school year data for entry this coming fall:

  • Use this worksheet to store your collected data and label it with the IRN, grant number, site name, and term to which the data pertains;
  • Administer student engagement surveys to the school-day teachers of your 21st CCLC participants in grades 1-5 at the end of the school year and keep them in batches by term/site;
  • Keep in touch with your LEA partners to ensure you have access to state assessment, grade point average, school day attendance, and in-school suspension data for both the 22-23 and 23-24 school years to report growth during the next 21APR outcomes reporting period; and
  • If it this is the fifth (final) year of your grant cycle, ensure you attend the Grant Closeout training on May 17th, 2024, and identify who will be a point of contact for required reporting to occur after July 1st.

Tabitha Palmer Transitions to Nutrition Team

The 21st CCLC team is excited to announce that Tabitha Palmer RN, BSN, PMP has been promoted to Education Program Specialist in the Office of Nutrition at the Department of Education and Workforce! Her last day as 21st CCLC Data Coordinator will be Friday, February 23rd.

Tabitha wants to thank grantees for their commitment to ensuring we met our annual goal of 100% of 21st CCLC grant sites reporting their data to the USDOE! Although she will leave the 21st CCLC grant team, her work in supporting out-of-school time programs will continue in her new role, ensuring compliance with National School Lunch, After School Care Snack, and Summer Food Service Program regulations at participating sites in Ohio. Tabitha is excited to utilize her expertise in both education and nursing in her new role.

More information is forthcoming regarding who grantees should contact for 21APR support moving forward.  In the meantime, please help us congratulate her and wish her well on this new chapter!

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