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Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI)

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI) is a 3-year literacy intervention for K-3 teachers and students. The intervention provides teachers with training seminars (56 hours total across 3 years), individual coaching (105 hours total), and facilitated grade-level meetings (24 meetings total). In Year 1, CLI provides classrooms with books and materials aligned with the intervention model. CLI selects K-3 teachers from each school to serve as Instructional Lead Teachers (ILTs) who receive additional coaching (25 hours total) and seminars (6 total) to mentor fellow teachers and develop model classrooms. CLI also holds school-level leadership team meetings and district-level meetings with principals and administrators to track literacy progress. The intervention uses the Teacher's Effective Literacy Practice (TELP) framework to guide training and coaching scope and sequence.

2020

108 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Physical Science and Engineering Invention Kit Curriculum

7th Grade, 8th Grade

The Physical Science and Engineering Invention Kit Curriculum is a project-based engineering curriculum for middle school students (Grades 7 or 8) that teaches key science and engineering principles through constructing modern interpretations of 19th-century inventions. Students build three invention kits sequentially in their engineering elective courses: the Solenoid, the Linear Motor, and the Linear Generator. Each kit includes make activities (building components like continuity testers and solenoids), lab activities (demonstrating principles with step-by-step guides and guiding questions), and design challenges (open-ended exercises to create functioning objects). The kits incorporate 2D and 3D fabrication technology (laser cutters, 3D printers) and electronic CAD files. Teachers access kit materials online, including teacher guides with standards alignment, materials lists, and assessment suggestions. Students also take physical science courses concurrently. The curriculum aims to build understanding of magnetism, electricity, and electromagnetism, along with skills in computer-aided design, manufacturing, soldering, and scientific observation.

2019

Cost per student

N/A

Word Knowledge Instruction

5th Grade

Word Knowledge Instruction (WKI) is a classroom instructional program designed to enhance the word knowledge of grade 5 students by teaching morphological awareness—knowledge of Greek and Latin roots, base words, prefixes, and suffixes—to help students infer the meaning of new words and expand their vocabulary. WKI consists of 15-minute lessons taught 4 days a week for 20 weeks to the entire English language arts (ELA) class in high-poverty, low-performing elementary schools. Each week of WKI lessons focuses on a single affix (prefix or suffix), covering 20 affixes in all. WKI lessons explicitly teach morphological awareness by deconstructing and constructing words; composing sentences; discussing the meaning of words presented in connected text; defining words, pairing them with synonyms, and linking them to existing knowledge; contrasting base words with new words derived by adding affixes; and creating family trees by adding affixes to base and root words. WKI developers trained teachers over two and a half days in summer 2018 and provided ongoing support throughout the 20 weeks of implementation.

2021

16 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Getting Ready

Preschool

Getting Ready is a relationally based parent engagement intervention promoting school readiness for preschool-aged children (ages 3-5) who are low-income and at educational risk due to developmental concerns in language, cognition, and/or social-emotional development. Early childhood educators (ECEs) use a set of intentional interaction strategies with parents during home visits and parent-ECE conferences (12 contacts over two years, 60 minutes each) to support parent-child connections and strengthen collaborative partnerships between ECEs and parents. The strategies include establishing parent-child interactions, communicating openly, affirming competencies, focusing attention, sharing information and resources, using observations and data to guide decisions, making mutual/joint decisions, and modeling and suggesting. ECEs also implement structured collaborative planning procedures including data review, parent-child observations, and creation of partnership plans to promote shared responsibility for children's school readiness. ECEs receive a one-day training institute at the onset and ongoing bimonthly coaching (90-minute sessions, approximately 32 contacts over two years) to support their delivery of the intervention.

2019

High

Cost per student

$2,510.04

System 44

4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

System 44 is a foundational reading program for older struggling readers in grades 4-8 who have not mastered basic phonics and decoding skills. The program combines research-based phonics instruction with adaptive technology to improve word reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. Students receive approximately 20-25 minutes of computer-delivered adaptive instruction, 25-30 minutes of small group and individual work using high-interest leveled materials, and 5-10 minutes of whole class instruction daily. The program includes 25 series covering 160 topics across four strands: The Code (decoding), Sight Words (high-frequency words), Word Strategies (syllable types and word parts), and Success (reading connected text). Materials include the System 44 software, 44Book, Decodable Digest, 36-title paperback book and audiobook library, SAM practice worksheets, letter tiles, posters, flip chart lessons, and Sound and Articulation DVD. Teachers received a 1-day training in August 2010 plus 3 coaching visits from Scholastic staff during the school year.

2011

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Putting Fractions Together

4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

Putting Fractions Together (PFT) is a computer-based educational game intervention designed to improve understanding of individual fractions and fraction addition for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. The intervention emphasizes that both individual fractions and sums of fractions are composed of unit fractions and can be represented by concatenating them (putting them together). Students use fraction strips to create visual representations of fractions and fraction sums on a 0-1 number line, estimating their magnitudes by placing marks on the line. The game progresses through three phases using a "concreteness fading" approach: Phase 1 allows students to select and move fraction strips onto the number line; Phase 2 makes strips immovable, encouraging mental visualization; Phase 3 hides strips entirely, requiring mental representation. Students receive feedback showing correct fraction strip representations after each response. The intervention is delivered one-on-one by an experimenter and includes a tutorial followed by gameplay lasting approximately 15-21 minutes total across one or two parts.

2021

Moderate

Cost per student

$800

Too Good for Drugs

3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 6th Grade

Too Good for Drugs is a character education curriculum designed to promote life skills, character values, resistance skills to negative peer influence, and resistance to the use of illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco for elementary and middle school students. The program consists of 10 lessons at each grade level lasting 30-45 minutes per lesson, delivered through classroom discussions and structured activities centered on interactive learning and skill-building exercises. Students engage in role-play and cooperative learning games and are encouraged to apply skills to different contexts. All lessons are scripted and intended to be taught by trained teachers or program instructors. The program includes optional parental and community involvement components such as parent newsletters and interactive family materials.

2006

Cost per student

N/A

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrator Programs

9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Career and Technical Education (CTE) concentrator programs are sequences of high school courses aligned to specific career fields (such as manufacturing, education and training, finance, health sciences, etc.) that provide students with academic and technical skills to succeed in college or the workforce. A CTE concentrator is a student who completes a sequence of courses aligned to a specific career cluster—in Nebraska, three or more credits in a single career cluster; in South Dakota, at least two credits in a state-approved sequence within a single career cluster. The programs are delivered through regular high school coursework over multiple years, typically spanning grades 9-12. Students select from 16 career clusters in the National Career Clusters Framework. The intervention requires existing school infrastructure and teaching staff already in place for CTE programming.

2021

Cost per student

N/A

System 44

4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

System 44 is a foundational reading program for older struggling readers in Grades 4-8 who have not mastered basic phonics and decoding skills. The program combines research-based phonics instruction with adaptive technology to improve word reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. System 44 delivers instruction through three main components: adaptive computer software (20-25 minutes daily), teacher-led small-group instruction (25-30 minutes), and individual student practice with high-interest leveled materials (5-10 minutes whole-class). The program includes 25 series covering 160 topics across four strands: The Code (decoding), Sight Words (high frequency words), Word Strategies (syllable types and word parts), and Success (reading connected text). Students use materials including the 44Book, Decodable Digest, System 44 paperback books and audiobooks, SAM worksheets, letter tiles, flip charts, and the Sound and Articulation DVD. Teachers received initial training in September 2011, follow-up training in November 2011, and monthly coaching visits from Scholastic staff through May 2012.

2012

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Social-Emotional Learning Foundations (SELF)

Kindergarten, 1st Grade

Social-Emotional Learning Foundations (SELF) is a Tier 2 curriculum with a universal component designed for kindergarten and first grade students at risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties. SELF integrates social-emotional learning with literacy instruction to strengthen language related to SEL and self-regulation. The curriculum uses small-group lessons taught within the general education setting, organized around 52 kindergarten and 54 first grade lessons using 16 children's storybooks that address SEL topics within five critical competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management, and responsible decision-making. Each topic consists of three lessons: first, the teacher reads a storybook to the whole class; second, the teacher teaches a small-group lesson using dialogic reading to promote discussion; third, students apply concepts in problem-solving situations within small groups. Teachers received two 6-hour days of professional development before implementation, covering conceptual foundations of SEL, instructional features, and pedagogical knowledge including dialogic reading and vocabulary instruction.

2021

Cost per student

N/A

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