Find the best evidence-based interventions for your students

iPersonalize

6th Grade

iPersonalize is a gamified instructional approach developed by Fullerton School District for sixth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) instruction. The program reimagines traditional units of study by incorporating alternate reality game (ARG) principles, including an "epic storyline" that anchors all instruction and assessment activities. Students complete tasks called "quests" and "raids" both in-person (inside and outside the classroom) and online through a learning management system. The instructional cycle includes phases for learning goals, engagement with the storyline, interacting with new knowledge, common formative assessments, and either deepening practice or reteaching based on assessment results. Students earn virtual badges for completing quests and mastering learning goals. The approach is designed to increase student engagement in learning and support achievement by offering students control over their learning pathways while ensuring mastery of required ELA standards.

2019

18 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Building Assets and Reducing Risks (BARR)

9th Grade

Building Assets and Reducing Risks (BARR) is a comprehensive, strength-based approach for ninth-grade students that uses eight interlocking strategies to build intentional staff-to-staff, staff-to-student, and student-to-student relationships in secondary schools. BARR requires a 3-year commitment from participating schools and involves reorganizing the ninth-grade master schedule into blocks/teams so that core subject teachers and their students share classes together, enabling teachers to collaborate effectively. The program includes regular block/team meetings and risk-review meetings to discuss student progress, challenges, and assets, and to develop interventions as necessary. BARR provides professional development, coaching, the I-Time curriculum (a social and emotional development curriculum taught weekly), and administrative supports. Schools commit to staffing a BARR coordinator (50-100% FTE depending on school size) and freeing up teacher time for meetings during regular planning time or after school.

2019

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Talent Search

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

Talent Search aims to help low-income and first-generation college students (those whose parents do not have four-year college degrees) complete high school and gain access to college. The program serves both middle and high school students and provides a combination of services including test taking and study skills assistance, academic advising, tutoring, career development, college campus visits, and financial aid application assistance. Most participants received services in their junior and senior years of high school. According to a 2000 survey of project directors, nearly half of Talent Search participants received 10 or fewer hours of services a year. Participants were either recruited to participate or volunteered to be in the program.

2006

Cost per student

N/A

Super Solvers (3rd grade-revised)

3rd Grade

Super Solvers (3rd grade-revised) is a fractions intervention designed for third-grade students who are at-risk for mathematics difficulties or have learning disabilities. The intervention focuses on fraction magnitude understanding through comparing, ordering, and placing fractions on number lines, as well as word problems that contextualize fractions as numbers in everyday contexts. It is delivered in small groups of two students, three times per week for 35 minutes per session over 13 weeks (totaling 39 sessions). The intervention uses explicit, structured cognitive strategy instruction with worked examples, guided and independent practice, cumulative review, and interleaved problem sets. Activities include Multi-Minute (multiplication practice), Fraction Action (fraction magnitude), Fraction Flash (building flexibility with fraction magnitude skills), Problem Quest (word problem instruction using schema-based approach), and Power Practice (independent interleaved practice). Materials include fraction tiles, fraction circles, number lines, Compare Cards, help cards for word problems, and a motivational system with rewards. Tutors require training and weekly meetings for condition-specific instruction and feedback.

2020

Low

8 Weeks

Cost per student

$417.05

Targeted Intensive School Support (TISS) Program

3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Targeted Intensive School Support (TISS) is a team-based leadership development and coaching intervention designed for struggling NYC Department of Education schools. The program draws principals from NYC Leadership Academy's Aspiring Principals Program (APP) and assistant principals from the Leadership Advancement Program (LAP), matching them as like-minded partners during preservice training. TISS aims to coplace these principal-AP teams into high-needs schools and provide 328 hours of coaching over three years (compared to the typical 72 hours in year one). The coaching is team-based, with at least 30% of hours supporting the broader leadership team beyond just the principal. A diagnostic process helps leaders identify school priorities through data review and evidence analysis, which then informs goal-setting and coaching focus. Coaches receive specialized training in team-based coaching strategies. The program targets elementary, middle, and high schools serving predominantly minority and economically disadvantaged student populations.

2020

Cost per student

N/A

Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)

3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) is a professional development program that supports teachers in implementing Common Core State Standards by integrating literacy skill development throughout content areas. Teachers participate in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that meet regularly (typically weekly or biweekly) to collaboratively design and adapt standards-driven writing assignments called LDC modules. The program provides synchronous support through coach-facilitated PLC sessions and asynchronous support through written feedback via the CoreTools online platform. Teachers create modules that require sustained writing and use of evidence, implementing at least two modules per year. LDC coaches provide training, feedback on module design, and support for classroom implementation. The program targets middle and elementary school teachers across core content areas (ELA, social studies/history, and science) and requires substantial time commitment including common planning time, professional development sessions, and classroom implementation.

2020

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Higher Achievement

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

Higher Achievement is an intensive summer and after-school program for students in grades 5-8 in under-resourced schools. Students enter during the summer before fifth or sixth grade and commit to attending through eighth grade. The program offers more than 500 hours of academic enrichment annually through Achievement Centers hosted in select middle schools. During the school year, the Afterschool Academy operates three days a week (3:30-7:30 p.m.) for 25 weeks, providing homework help/study hall, dinner, enrichment activities, and 75-minute English Language Arts (ELA) or math lessons delivered by trained volunteer mentors to small groups of 3-4 scholars. The six-week Summer Academy offers eight-hour days with morning academic instruction in ELA, math, science, and sometimes social studies delivered by certified or student teachers, followed by afternoon enrichment electives and field trips. The program is overseen by a full-time center director and assistant director at each center. Higher Achievement uses detailed, scripted lesson plans aligned with Common Core standards and focuses on four social justice themes: freedom, voice, solidarity, and justice.

2020

21 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

First Step Next

Preschool

First Step Next (FSN) is a Tier 2 early intervention program for pre-K through grade 2 children that targets social skills and academic enablers to promote school success and prevent externalizing behavior problems. The program includes three major components: (1) social skills instruction where a coach helps the target child master 'Super Student Skills' through one-on-one behavioral lessons covering skills like following directions, being safe, doing your best work, asking for help the right way, and being a team player; (2) the green-card game where the coach or teacher uses a laminated card with green and red sides to provide feedback to the target child and classmates for complying with or not following teacher expectations; and (3) home-school connections where parents receive a workbook focused on positive parenting strategies and daily feedback from the FSN coach via notes or phone calls. A trained coach delivers the first 5-7 days of the program (coach phase), then transitions control to the teacher who continues implementation from day 11 onward (teacher phase). Teachers receive a daylong workshop training session in FSN and classroom management principles before implementation.

2020

Cost per student

N/A

Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) is a professional development program that supports teachers in implementing Common Core State Standards by integrating literacy skill development throughout content areas. The program focuses on developing teacher competencies through job-embedded professional development and professional learning communities (PLCs). Teachers work collaboratively with coaches to design standards-driven, literacy-rich writing assignments within their existing curricula across all content areas. The intervention targets K-12 teachers and students, with implementation occurring through regular PLC meetings (typically weekly or biweekly for 45-60 minutes), where teachers learn to create and adapt LDC modules—instructional units that include a culminating writing assignment. Teachers access online resources through the CoreTools platform, receive virtual coaching support via Zoom meetings and written feedback, and participate in in-person professional development sessions. The program expects teachers to adapt two existing modules and create one module from scratch during the school year, then implement at least two modules in their classrooms.

2019

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) and Social Cognitive Model (SCM) Writing Interventions

5th Grade, 6th Grade

This study compared two self-regulatory writing instruction programs for 5th- and 6th-grade Spanish students with learning disabilities and/or low achievement. One hundred and twenty-one students were randomly assigned to either the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) intervention, the Social Cognitive Model (SCM) intervention, or standard curriculum instruction. Both interventions taught cognitive and self-regulatory strategies for planning, drafting, and revising compare-contrast essays. The SRSD intervention followed six stages: developing background knowledge, discussing strategy goals, modeling the strategy, memorizing the strategy, collaborative practice, and independent performance. The SCM intervention followed four sequential levels: observation (with mastery and coping models), emulation (peer modeling), self-control (individual practice with supports), and self-regulation (adapted performance without supports). Both programs were delivered in 25 sessions of 50 minutes each, three times per week, to small groups of 6-8 students by trained educational psychologists.

2006

Low

5 Weeks

Cost per student

$14.29

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