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Fractions Intervention with and without Self-Regulation with Growth Mindset (SR-GM) Component

The intervention, referred to as Super Solvers (3rd grade-revised), is a 13-week program that targets at-risk third-grade students' understanding of fractions, specifically fraction magnitude. The program includes three 35-min sessions per week, delivered to pairs of students. It focuses on fraction magnitude, comparing, ordering, and placing fractions on number lines, and word problems to contextualize fractions as numbers in everyday contexts. The program uses explicit, structured cognitive strategy instruction, with tutors introducing new topics with worked examples, modeling efficient solution strategies, and providing corrective feedback for incorrect responses. The program also incorporates a motivational system focused on on-task behavior and includes activities such as Fraction Flash, Problem Quest, and Power Practice to build flexibility and speed with fraction magnitude component skills.

Third Grade

Published: 2020

Non-Academic Area

Oregon Promise: Financial Aid Program for Community College Students

Oregon Promise is a financial aid program that targets high school students who plan to attend an Oregon community college by covering up to 90 attempted community college credits. The program is open to individuals with a high school diploma or GED test credential, including Oregon students who complete high school in public school, private school, home school, a correctional facility, or a foster care placement outside of the state. To be eligible for an Oregon Promise award, high school students must have resided in Oregon for at least 12 months prior to college enrollment, earned a high school unweighted cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or higher, completed high school, and earned or attempted no more than 90 college credits through dual-credit programs in high school.

Postsecondary

Published: 2021

Math

Math Video Games

The program developed by the Center for Advanced Technology in Schools (CATS) includes eight math video games, four of which cover fractions concepts and four of which cover solving equations concepts. The program is intended to target students' knowledge of pre-algebra topics, specifically rational numbers and fractions.

Sixth Grade

Published: 2014

English Language Arts Math

Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI): Providing Bonuses to High-Performing Teachers to Transfer to Low-Performing Schools

Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI) is a program that enables principals of low-performing schools to provide bonuses to high-performing teachers when they transfer to and stay in the low-performing schools. The program aims to improve student achievement by attracting and retaining effective teachers in low-performing schools. The program involves offering bonuses of up to $20,000 over two years to high-performing teachers who transfer to low-performing schools and stay for at least two years. Principals are given the opportunity to fill vacant teaching positions within a teacher team using TTI funds, and teachers are considered highly effective and eligible to participate if they taught a class in grades 3-8 and were in the top 20% in their district on student test score growth.

Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade

Published: 2015

English Language Arts

Kindergarten PAVEd for Success (K-PAVE): Teaching Vocabulary to Kindergarteners

Kindergarten PAVEd for Success (K-PAVE)

Kindergarten

Published: 2010

English Language Arts

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI): A Small-Group Literacy Intervention to Improve Reading Achievement in K-2 Students

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a program that targets early literacy skills in kindergarten through second-grade students who are struggling with reading. LLI is designed to provide small-group instruction to students who are below grade level in reading, with the goal of accelerating their literacy development and reducing the gap between their reading level and that of their peers. The program is typically delivered in 30-minute sessions, five days a week, for 18 weeks, and is led by a trained teacher who uses a variety of instructional strategies and materials to support student learning. The program includes a combination of phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction, and is designed to be tailored to the needs of individual students.

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade

Published: 2010

Math

DreamBox Learning: Supplemental Online Mathematics Program for Students in Grades K-5

DreamBox Learning is a supplemental online mathematics program that provides adaptive instruction for students in grades K-5 and focuses on number and operations, place value, and number sense. The program aims to individualize instruction for each student with millions of unique paths through the curriculum intended to match each student's level of comprehension and learning style. The curriculum is based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. The DreamBox Learning curriculum is made up of more than 720 online lessons for two grade levels: primary lessons for grades K-2 and intermediate lessons for grades 3-5. Students complete lessons by playing math games and solving puzzles using DreamBox Learning's virtual manipulatives. As students interact with the program, the lesson sequence, difficulty, pace, and number of hints are adapted in real time. DreamBox Learning can be used in a range of instructional settings including the classroom, small groups, or students using the program independently.

Kindergarten First Grade

Published: 2013

English Language Arts

Sound Partners: One-to-One Phonics-Based Tutoring for Beginning Readers

Sound Partners is a one-to-one tutoring program designed to improve reading skills in kindergarten and first-grade students in urban schools. The program targets alphabetics, fluency, comprehension, and general reading achievement. It consists of 30-minute sessions, four days a week, throughout one school year. Each session includes four to eight short activities that change over the course of the intervention, emphasizing letter-sound correspondences, phoneme blending, decoding, and encoding phonetically regular words, as well as reading irregular high-frequency words. The program also includes oral reading practice in designated texts, with tutors trained to choose a reading method that matches each student's reading skills.

Kindergarten First Grade

Published: 2010

Science & STEM English Language Arts

Literacy-Infused Science Using Technology Innovation Opportunities (LISTO): Improving Teacher Effectiveness and Student Outcomes in Science and Reading

Literacy-Infused Science Using Technology Innovation Opportunities (LISTO) is a program that integrates literacy-infused science instruction with technology to improve teacher effectiveness and student outcomes in rural school districts and in schools that serve a relatively large proportion of students from low-income households. LISTO provides educators with standards-aligned, literacy-infused science curricula, ongoing virtual professional development, and ongoing virtual mentoring and coaching to fifth-grade science teachers. The program includes two sub-components: Family Involvement in Science (FIS) and Scientists as Role Models and Mentors (SRM 2). FIS consists of take-home booklets that include activities to engage family members in science, while SRM 2 features contributions from university science mentors who are strategically recruited to align with LIS curriculum units. Virtual Professional Development (VPD) sessions are conducted using GoToTraining, an interactive virtual platform, and include professional growth opportunities to develop teachers' knowledge of science content and literacy-integration. Virtual

Fifth Grade

Published: 2021

English Language Arts

Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery is a program that targets students in grade 1 who are at risk of reading difficulties. The program involves one-on-one tailored lessons with a trained Reading Recovery teacher, who uses a combination of reading, writing, and phonics activities to help students improve their literacy skills. The program is designed to be implemented daily for 30 minutes, and typically lasts for 12-20 weeks. Teachers are trained to use a specific set of instructional strategies and materials, and are supported by a teacher leader who provides ongoing coaching and professional development.

First Grade

Published: 2023