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Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT): Improving Student Behavior in Elementary School Music Classrooms

Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a classroom management strategy that incorporates social skills instruction, group contingencies, praise, points, and group rewards to target student behavior in an elementary school music classroom. CW-FIT involves organizing the class into groups or teams, praising and awarding points to groups that exhibit social skills and participate appropriately in class lessons, and providing rewards to groups that meet a predetermined point goal. The teacher introduces one social skill per class period, reviews the skills with the students at the beginning of each class, and displays social skills posters in the room for reference.

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Sixth Grade
Published: 2017

Non-Academic Area

ALAS: Providing Support and Follow-up to Students at Risk of Dropping Out

ALAS (Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success) is a program intended to target students identified as at risk of dropping out of school due to low academic performance and behavior problems. ALAS provides students with support and follow-up across multiple years of program participation. The program consists of six related strategies: monitoring attendance, improving student social and task-related problem-solving skills, connecting students and families with community services, providing follow-up instruction on behavior change, and delivering the ALAS Resilience Builder curriculum. ALAS is delivered on the school campus by a team of supervisors, counselors/mentors, volunteers, and clerical staff.

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Ninth Grade
Published: 2006

Science & STEM

STeLLA (Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis): Improving Student Science Achievement by Enhancing Teacher Ability to Explain Science Concepts, Identify Science Concepts in Student Learning Activities, and Engage Students in Thinking about Science

STeLLA (Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis) is a professional development program for teachers that aims to improve student science achievement by enhancing teachers' ability to explain science concepts, identify science concepts used in student learning activities, and engage students in thinking about science. The program consists of a 2-week summer institute, followed by eight monthly study group sessions during the school year, where teachers learn from postsecondary science faculty and STeLLA professional development leaders, analyze videorecorded lessons, and develop their own science lesson plans.

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Fourth Grade Fifth Grade
Published: 2021