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Dual Enrollment Programs

Dual enrollment programs allow high school students to take college courses and earn college credits while still attending high school. Such programs, also referred to as dual credit or early college programs, are designed to boost college access and degree attainment, especially for students typically underrepresented in higher education. Dual enrollment programs support college credit accumulation and degree attainment via at least three mechanisms. First, allowing high school students to experience college-level courses helps them prepare for the social and academic requirements of college while having the additional supports available to high school students; this may reduce the need for developmental coursework. Second, students who accumulate college credits early and consistently are more likely to attain a college degree. Third, many dual enrollment programs offer discounted or free tuition, which reduces the overall cost of college and may increase the number of low socioeconomic status students who can attend and complete college. Dual enrollment programs are collaborations between secondary and postsecondary institutions. These programs became common in the early 1990s and

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Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade
Published: 2017
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.

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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.

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Kindergarten First Grade
Published: 2010
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.

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Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade
Published: 2015
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.

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Kindergarten First Grade Second 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

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Fifth Grade
Published: 2021
Math

Pirate Math

Pirate Math is a word-problem intervention that targets students with math difficulties (MD) by teaching pre-algebraic reasoning and word-problem solving skills. The intervention consists of five activities: Math Fact Flashcards, Equation Quest, Buccaneer Problems, Shipshape Sorting, and Jolly Roger Review. Equation Quest is a pre-algebraic reasoning component that teaches students to understand the equal sign as a relational symbol and to solve equations. Buccaneer Problems teaches students to approach word problems using a schema-based strategy called RUN (Read the problem, Underline the label, and Name the problem type). Shipshape Sorting helps students practice identifying word-problem schemas, and Jolly Roger Review provides a brief review of session content. The intervention is delivered one-on-one by tutors for 30 minutes, three times a week, for 25-30 sessions.

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Third Grade
Published: 2019
Math

Everyday Mathematics: A Core Curriculum for Students in Grades Pre-K-6 to Improve Mathematics Achievement

Everyday Mathematics is a core curriculum for students in grades pre-K-6 that focuses on real-life problem solving, student communication of mathematical thinking, and appropriate use of technology. The curriculum provides students with multiple opportunities to reinforce concepts and practice skills, and it emphasizes balancing different types of instruction, using various methods for skills practice, and fostering parent involvement in student learning. Everyday Mathematics lessons use daily lesson plans that usually begin with a Math Message, which is the focus of the lesson, and combines teacher-led discussions and hands-on group and individual activities during the class. Students also keep a journal in which they write about mathematical concepts and work on homework assignments that are intended to reinforce practical experience with mathematics.

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Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade
Published: 2015