Assignment #4

ASSIGNMENT 4:  Logic Model for LKR Lunch Program

GOAL	OBJECTIVES	ACTIVITIES	OUTPUTS	OUTCOMES	IMPACTS
To provide all students at LKR with a safe place to eat their lunch.	To keep all students safe as they eat lunch. To allow the students to socialize with people of their choosing over the lunch hour. To have the lunch program not infringe on the school’s ability to provide a varied extra-curricular program during the lunch hour.	To determine what facilities within the school would hold what number students. To determine what options exist for how we could split students up to put them into rooms to eat their lunches. To determine how to split the children so that they have appropriate socializing time but, if possible, minimize behavior problems.	An analysis of the different facilities in the school and what their capacities are, including the pros and cons of using the facility as a lunch room. An analysis of the number of students in each grade who usually stay for lunch to determine how they could be effectively split up. An analysis of with whom children socialize and when behavior problems become an issue over the lunch hour.	Students will all be safe as they eat lunch. Students will be in an optimal arrangement while they eat their lunch. Students will be allowed to socialize with people of their choosing over the lunch hour. The varied extra-curricular program will continue to run over the lunch hour. Students will be in an optimal arrangement while they eat their lunch.	The  lunch program will be run in LKR an optimal way that ensures the safety and socializing time of all students, and allows an active and varied extra-curricular program to be run over the noon hour.

Currently, there are 3 separate lunch areas for students at LKR School.  The students in grades 1-3 eat their lunches while seated on the floor of the small gym.  There are usually 3 supervisors for those students.  The students in grades 4 and 5 eat in the art room, but the art room is far too small to house them all, so about 1/2 of the students sit in the art room at tables and counters, and 1/2 of the students sit on the floor in the hallway to eat.  Two supervisors are assigned to these students.  There are approximately 100 grade 4 and 5 students who stay for lunch regularly.  The grade 6-8 students eat in the science lab, but once again the room is far too small for the number of students who attend.  About 30-40 students eat at the tables and benches, and around 70-95 eat their lunch on the floor of the hallway.  There is always 1 supervisor, and often 2 for this area, and between 100-125 students who regularly stay.  

The above logic model is for the Program Evaluation of the LKR School Lunch Program.  There have been problems over the years finding the students an appropriate place to eat their lunches where they can socialize with their friends and eat in a safe environment.  The evaluation must provide a description of the current program, and an analysis of the many different ways the lunch program could be run.  The main concerns are that at present many students eat while seated on the floor.  The lunch hour is one of the 3 times during the elementary school day when students are permitted socialization time, so we don’t want this to be compromised.  Also, we have an active extra-curricular program, much of which runs during the lunch hour.  This must be also be conserved.  The music room, band room, library, and large gym are all free so that programs can occur there.  As well, classrooms are free so that teachers can work in them during their lunch hour.  The current program has taken into account many of the possible problems of running the program differently, but hopefully a formal evaluation and analysis will allow consideration of a different, more effective way to run it.