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Peer-Mediated Incremental Rehearsal (PMIR): Teaching High-Frequency Words to English Language Learners (ELL) Students

Peer-Mediated Incremental Rehearsal (PMIR) is a program that targets English language learners' (ELL) reading skills, specifically sight-word reading. PMIR involves peer tutors teaching ELL students high-frequency words using incremental rehearsal (IR) procedures. The program is designed to be a more contextually valid and efficient modification of IR, which has been shown to be effective in teaching words to ELL students but may be resource-intensive when implemented by adults.

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Second Grade Third Grade
Published: 2017
Science & STEM

Mission HydroSci (MHS): A 3D game-based learning environment and curriculum to support middle school student learning of water systems science and scientific argumentation

Mission HydroSci (MHS) is a 3D game-based learning environment and curriculum that targets middle school student learning of water systems science and scientific argumentation. MHS is a rigorous, coherent, and engaging 6 to 8-day curriculum with all learning activities and social interactions taking place in the virtual world and with teachers observing and supporting students through an online support system enhanced by analytics. The program is divided into six units that middle school students on average take 6 to 8 hours to complete. Each unit focuses on a different aspect of water systems science, including topography, watersheds, groundwater, and the water cycle. The program also teaches students how to support claims with evidence, identify warrants, and use reasoning to link evidence with a claim.

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Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade
Published: 2020
Science & STEM

Chemistry That Applies: Improving General Science Achievement Among Middle School Students

Chemistry That Applies is a curriculum unit that targets physical science learning for eighth-grade students. Working in large and small groups, students explore chemical reactions, collect data, and use evidence-based arguments to support their claims. Students keep individual science notebooks for analyzing results. Chemistry That Applies provides question prompts (called "Think and Write") that require students to use critical thinking skills. Complicated vocabulary is kept to a minimum. The unit is implemented over a period of approximately seven weeks.

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Eighth Grade
Published: 2012
English Language Arts Math

Early Indicator and Intervention System (EIIS): Preventing High School Dropout and Supporting On-Time Graduation

Early Indicator and Intervention System (EIIS) is a systematic approach to preventing dropout and supporting students' on-time graduation. EIIS enables school staff to use data to identify students who do not meet on-track thresholds on indicators associated with high school graduation, such as attendance, behavior, and course performance. Districts can tailor their EIIS by defining their own on-track thresholds for each indicator. After identifying students who do not meet the defined thresholds, districts can assign individualized interventions to these students to prevent dropout, monitor students' response to those interventions, and make changes as needed. The EIIS has key components including a data system, a menu of interventions, a fully articulated process to identify students and assign them to interventions, and a system to monitor and modify interventions.

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Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade
Published: 2021
Science & STEM

Making Sense of SCIENCE: A Teacher Professional Learning Model to Improve Elementary School Teachers' Science Instruction and Student Science Achievement

Making Sense of SCIENCE is a model for teacher professional learning aimed at raising students' science achievement, particularly Earth and space science and physical science, through improving science instruction. The professional learning model focuses on the critical connections between science understanding, classroom practice, and literacy integration in ways that support the implementation of NGSS and CCSS. The Making Sense of SCIENCE model comprises six components. Components 1, 2, and 3 are related to leadership capacity building for three groups: site coordinators, Leadership Cadre (LC) members, and administrators. Components 4, 5, and 6 are related to teacher professional learning. Implementation of the six components takes place over the course of a two-year period. Component 1 focuses on professional learning for site coordinators, one in each of the two states in which the study was conducted. Component 2 focuses on LC professional learning. Component 3 focuses on administrator professional learning. Components 4, 5

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Fourth Grade Fifth Grade
Published: 2020
English Language Arts Math

Expeditionary Learning (EL) Model

Expeditionary Learning (EL) is a curriculum that combines an interdisciplinary instructional approach with ongoing training and coaching for teachers and school leaders. EL uses an experiential approach in which students conduct research projects to share with outside audiences. Learning expeditions-case-studies of academic topics-often bring together teachers from different subjects to coordinate shared projects; this curriculum includes several elements that are closely aligned with the Common Core standards for English-language arts and literacy. EL provides a combination of curriculum resources, professional development institutes in the summer and during the school year, and on-site classroom observation and coaching for teachers and school leaders.

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Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade
Published: 2013