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English Language Arts

Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Intervention

The Dyslexia Screening and Early Literacy Intervention Pilot Program (Pilot) is a program that aims to establish methods for identifying students at risk for reading difficulties, including dyslexia, and providing appropriate supports to these students to improve future reading outcomes and reduce the need for special education in later grades. The Pilot includes a classroom program that provides professional development for classroom teachers on phonics and phonological awareness, and a multisensory structured language (MSL) intervention for students who qualify based on their winter Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) scores. The MSL intervention is typically Orton-Gillingham (OG), implemented by trained interventionists, with a target dosage of 30 hours by the end of kindergarten and a total of 100 hours by the end of first grade.

Kindergarten First Grade

Published: 2018

English Language Arts

REWARDS Program: Comprehensive Supplemental Literacy Intervention for Adolescent Struggling Readers

The REWARDS Program is a comprehensive supplemental literacy intervention that targets seventh-grade students who struggle with reading. The program provides instruction in word analysis, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, using content-related text and extended discussion of text meaning and interpretation to enhance student motivation and engagement in literacy learning. The program consists of three components: REWARDS Secondary-Multisyllabic Word Reading Strategies, REWARDS Plus, and REWARDS Writing, which are taught in an integrated sequence with careful attention to fidelity by specially trained teachers who are assisted throughout the year with skilled coaching and expert support.

Seventh Grade

Published: 2012

Math

Schema-Based Instruction (SBI) and General Strategy Instruction (GSI)

Schema-based instruction (SBI) is a program that targets the mathematical problem-solving performance of middle school students with learning problems. SBI instruction emphasizes conceptual understanding of the problem structure, or schemata. The program involves teaching students to identify the problem type, use a schema diagram to represent the problem, and transform the diagram into a math sentence to solve the problem. The instruction is carried out in two phases: problem schemata instruction and problem solution instruction. In the problem schemata instruction phase, students learn to identify the problem type and represent the problem using a schematic diagram. In the problem solution instruction phase, students learn to solve for the unknown quantity in word problems using the schematic diagram. The program also involves teaching students to check the accuracy of their representation and computation.

Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade

Published: 2005

English Language Arts Foreign Languages

GraphoGame: A Computer Adaptive Reading Intervention to Improve Decoding Skills in Bilingual Students

GraphoGame is a computer adaptive reading intervention that targets the development of early reading skills in Spanish and English. It is an adaptive online decoding program that presents spoken sounds and asks the player to click on the corresponding letter or set of letters. The game adapts to the player's performance, providing learning material that allows the player to select the correct response an average of 80% of the time. GraphoGame is intended to support the reading development of bilingual students, particularly those at risk for reading difficulties, by providing additional practice opportunities to strengthen their alphabetic understanding and decoding skills in an engaging instructional environment.

First Grade

Published: 2017

English Language Arts Math

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS): Targeting School Systems and Procedures to Prevent and Respond to Disruptive Behavior

School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) is a three-tiered prevention framework that integrates a universal system of supports with targeted and intensive preventive interventions to address student behavior problems. SW-PBIS is based on behavioral, social learning, and organizational behavioral principles that aim to shift the school environment to shape student behavior in a positive way. The program focuses on teaching clear behavioral expectations, implementing a system to respond to the meeting of behavioral expectations, and creating a consistent response system to behavioral infractions for all students across all school settings. SW-PBIS training specifically focuses on data collection regarding implementation of core features of the model, data on behavioral infractions, and other data points that can be used to assess when students respond positively to the universal behavioral supports or may need additional targeted or intensive supports.

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade

Published: 2019

English Language Arts Math Science & STEM

College Readiness Program (CRP): Increasing Students' Success in Mathematics, Science, and English Advanced Placement (AP) Courses

The College Readiness Program (CRP) is a program that targets increasing student achievement and college readiness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by providing teacher, student, and school supports over a 3-year period. CRP includes four key components: program management, teacher supports, student supports, and awards. Program management involves setting up program structure and providing data. Teacher supports include training, access to content specialists, and cross-grade-level teams to help align instruction across grades. Student supports include tutoring and Saturday study sessions specific to AP courses. Awards include financial incentives to teachers and students tied to AP performance. CRP also provides additional support to schools by supplying needed equipment and supplies, including specialized items for coursework such as special calculators and laboratory equipment.

Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade

Published: 2017

History & Social Studies

Ethnic Studies Course

The ninth-grade Ethnic Studies (ES) curriculum in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is a year-long course that targets students at risk of dropping out of high school, particularly those with an eighth-grade GPA below 2.0. The ES curriculum focuses on the experiences, perspectives, and histories of traditionally underrepresented ethnic or racial groups, with units on themes of social justice, discrimination, stereotypes, and social movements from U.S. history. The course also encourages students to explore their individual identity, family history, and community history, and requires students to design and implement service-learning projects based on their study of their local community. The designers of this curriculum hope that these lessons and projects will increase students' commitment to social justice and improve self-esteem.

Ninth Grade

Published: 2016

English Language Arts

Four Remedial Reading Interventions: Corrective Reading, Failure Free Reading, Spell Read P.A.T., and Wilson Reading System

The document discusses four reading interventions: Corrective Reading, Failure Free Reading, Spell Read Phonological Auditory Training (P.A.T.), and Wilson Reading System, Third Edition. Corrective Reading is a program that uses scripted lessons to improve the efficiency of instruction and maximize opportunities for students to respond and receive feedback. Failure Free Reading is a computer-based program that uses a combination of computer-based lessons, workbook exercises, and teacher-led instruction to teach sight vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Spell Read P.A.T. is a program that provides systematic and explicit fluency-oriented instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics, along with everyday experiences in reading and writing for meaning. Wilson Reading System, Third Edition is a program that uses direct, multi-sensory, structured teaching based on the Orton-Gillingham methodology to teach sounds to automaticity, present the structure of language in a systematic, cumulative manner, and teach and reinforce concepts with visual-auditory-kinesthetic

Third Grade Fifth Grade

Published: 2006

English Language Arts

Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs: Improving Reading Achievement and English Language Development among English Language Learners

Instructional Conversations and Literature Logs is an intervention that targets reading achievement and English language development in English language learners.

Fourth Grade Fifth Grade

Published: 2006

Non-Academic Area

Urban Alliance High School Internship Program: Providing high school seniors at risk of disconnecting from work and school with training, mentoring, and work experience, with the goal of helping them successfully transition to higher education or employment after graduation.

Urban Alliance High School Internship Program

Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade

Published: 2017