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Strategies for Literacy Independence across the Curriculum (SLIC)

6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Strategies for Literacy Independence across the Curriculum (SLIC) is a professional development-based literacy intervention for struggling adolescent readers in grades 7-10. The program teaches students how authors use different text forms (expository, persuasive, narrative) to present information and how surface features of texts convey content. Students receive explicit instruction in recognizing and using text features (titles, subtitles, captions, font style, graphics) and strategic reading behaviors (previewing, cross-checking, using contextual clues, note-making). The targeted intervention replaces an elective class and uses grade-level textbooks from core content areas, magazine and newspaper articles, short stories, and novels. Teachers receive professional development from SLIC developers and on-site coaches, with instruction informed by periodic SLIC assessments administered every 2-3 months. The whole-school intervention provides the same SLIC strategies to all students through professional development for content-area teachers across all grades 6-12.

2011

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

KIPP Middle Schools

5th Grade, 6th Grade

KIPP Middle Schools are urban charter schools designed to serve underserved communities, with the goal of closing achievement gaps and preparing disadvantaged students to succeed in college. The KIPP model focuses on high expectations, expanding the school day and year, developing students' character strengths, and empowering effective teachers and school leaders. This study evaluated 13 KIPP middle schools through admission lotteries conducted in 2008 and 2009, following 1,177 students who applied to enter 5th or 6th grade. Students were randomly assigned to treatment (offered admission) or control (not offered admission) groups. The study tracked these students approximately 10-11 years after the lottery to measure long-term impacts on college enrollment and early persistence.

2019

Cost per student

N/A

READ 180 Enterprise Edition

6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

READ 180 Enterprise Edition is a literacy intervention curriculum designed for middle school students (grades 6-8) reading 2 or more years below grade level. The program replaces the core language arts curriculum for targeted students in treatment schools. READ 180 uses a 90-minute instructional block that includes whole-group instruction (20 minutes), three 20-minute small-group rotations (small-group instruction with teacher, independent reading with leveled paperbacks and audio support, and adaptive instructional software), and a 10-minute wrap-up. Classes are limited to no more than 21 students. The program includes ongoing assessment through the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) administered at least 3 times per year, with data managed through the Scholastic Achievement Manager (SAM) system. Teachers receive initial training from Scholastic (varying from 1-3 days depending on year) and ongoing support from district Resource Teacher Coordinators (RTCs) through in-school coaching visits.

2011

Moderate

36 Weeks

Cost per student

$1,265.75

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

Data-Based Individualization (DBI) in Mathematics

1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Data-Based Individualization (DBI) is an iterative and systematic approach to intensive intervention for students with severe and persistent mathematics learning needs, including students with disabilities. The intervention uses ongoing progress monitoring and diagnostic assessment data to determine when and how to adapt, intensify, and individualize mathematics interventions for students who do not respond to more standardized Tier 2 remediation efforts. The DBI process comprises five iterative steps: (1) starting with a validated intervention program aligned with student needs, (2) monitoring progress using valid assessment tools, (3) collecting diagnostic data to determine instructional needs and hypothesize adaptations when progress is inadequate, (4) implementing adaptations, and (5) continuing progress monitoring to determine response. The intervention was implemented in elementary schools (grades 1-2 initially, tracked through grades 4-5) and middle schools (grades 6-7). School intervention teams including principals, special educators, interventionists, and school psychologists received monthly professional development and coaching sessions covering topics such as the DBI process, using progress monitoring data, diagnostic data use, mathematics intervention platforms, adapting instruction, and planning intervention meetings. Implementation support was provided through site-based needs assessments, professional development sessions, and coaching sessions approximately once or twice monthly.

2020

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Fraction Sense Intervention

6th Grade

Fraction Sense Intervention is a research-based mathematics intervention for sixth-grade students with or at risk for mathematics difficulties. The intervention aims to build understanding of fraction magnitudes using a number line approach centered on a meaningful context of a color run race. Students receive 21 lessons in small groups of four students, with each lesson lasting approximately 45 minutes. The intervention teaches key fraction concepts using a narrow range of denominators (halves, fourths, eighths, thirds, sixths, and twelfths) to develop deep understanding. Lessons include six predictable activities: warm-up, exercises (oral counting), huddle (explicit instruction), practice, sprint (multiplication fluency), and cool-down. The intervention uses explicit and systematic instruction, visual number line models, partitioning activities, and multiplicative reasoning development. Trained research assistants deliver the intervention during the school's regular mathematics intervention period.

2018

4 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Descubriendo La Lectura

1st Grade

Descubriendo La Lectura (DLL) is a Spanish-language literacy intervention for struggling first-grade Spanish-speaking students. DLL provides daily 30-minute, one-on-one tutoring sessions delivered by trained bilingual teachers to the lowest performing 20% to 25% of Spanish-language students. The intervention is implemented at an individualized pace lasting approximately 12 to 20 weeks. Each lesson includes prescribed activities covering phonics, letter identification, word tests, concepts about print, writing vocabulary, hearing and recording sounds, and text reading. The program requires rigorous teacher selection and a highly structured, ongoing professional development system including year-long graduate-level coursework, school visits from teacher leaders, and minimum six professional development sessions annually. Teachers coordinate regularly with classroom teachers to discuss student progress and align reading strategies.

2019

High

12 Weeks

Cost per student

$1,506.02

STEM Early College Expansion Partnership (SECEP)

6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 13th Grade

STEM Early College Expansion Partnership (SECEP) is a comprehensive high school reform model designed to improve STEM education and increase college enrollment for high-need students. The program serves grades 6-12 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and four intermediate school districts in Michigan. SECEP implements four Design Principles: (1) STEM College-Focused Academic Program with pathways leading to college STEM majors, college credit opportunities, and STEM instructional practices; (2) Student Support including academic, social-emotional, and college readiness supports; (3) High School-College Collaboration through formal partnerships and shared resources; and (4) Culture of Continuous Improvement using data-driven decision making and ongoing professional development. The model aims for 90% of students to graduate with at least one college credit. Implementation supports include leadership coaching to districts, workshops and conferences, an online Community of Practice, school-based SECEP coaching, district-level implementation teams, and district-college collaboration to develop pathways and MOUs.

2019

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Reading Apprenticeship®

7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Reading Apprenticeship® is a professional development program for teachers in middle schools, high schools, and community colleges across content areas (English, mathematics, science, and social studies). The program trains teachers to model reading comprehension strategies and help students practice these strategies in their classrooms, with the goal of improving student literacy skills and social-emotional learning outcomes such as belonging, social awareness, growth mindset, and self-efficacy. Teachers participate in professional development courses (Reading Apprenticeship® Essentials I and II) delivered either online (nine 2-hour sessions) or in-person (3- to 10-day trainings), followed by on-site coaching. In the five studies reviewed, teachers typically received a 5-day introductory training in the summer before implementation (or 3 days for one package), with follow-up training and support throughout the school year including monthly professional learning community meetings, teacher leader meetings, weekly calls/emails, or periodic interviews. Teachers then implement Reading Apprenticeship® instructional strategies with their students over the course of one school year (with some students exposed for 2 years in two studies).

2023

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

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