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Balanced Leadership: Improving Student Outcomes by Developing School Leaders

Balanced Leadership is a professional development program that aims to improve student outcomes by helping current and aspiring school leaders understand and implement a set of actions and behaviors associated with improved student outcomes. The program focuses on 21 specific actions and behaviors of school leaders, including designing and implementing school curriculum, instruction, and assessment; fostering shared beliefs and community; and monitoring teaching and student learning. The program is implemented through on-site professional learning sessions for school leaders, which are offered over two years. The first year focuses on initiating and leading school change, maintaining a focus on school performance, and fostering shared beliefs and a purposeful school community. The second year extends and refines the topics covered in the first year through group discussions, case studies, and action plans. Coaching and additional online supports are available throughout the program as requested by the school or district. The program can also include professional development for district-level leaders.

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Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade
Published: 2020
Non-Academic Area

Multi-Component Consultation Package: Improving Teacher Classroom Management Skills and Student Behavior

A multi-component consultation package is used to address the problem of teachers' difficulties in implementing behavioral classroom interventions with integrity. The package targets three malleable teacher characteristics: knowledge about best practices, skills to implement these practices, and beliefs about the acceptability or feasibility of interventions. The package includes a knowledge enhancement component, a skills component, and a beliefs component. The knowledge enhancement component involves providing teachers with education on ADHD and behavior theory through fact sheets and workshops. The skills component involves providing teachers with enhanced performance feedback and skills practice to address areas for growth in skills. The beliefs component involves using techniques informed by motivational interviewing to address possible barriers to integrity related to teacher beliefs.

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Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade
Published: 2017
English Language Arts Math Science & STEM

YouthBuild: A Program Providing Education, Job Training, and Leadership Development to Disadvantaged Young People

YouthBuild is a program that provides education, job training, and other services to disadvantaged young people who have not completed high school. It is intended to target young people's educational and employment outcomes, as well as their personal development. The program includes a mix of education, vocational training (typically in construction), counseling, leadership development, and community service. Eligibility is usually limited to out-of-school young people ages 16 to 24 who have dropped out before completing high school and who meet one of the following criteria: They are from low-income or migrant families, are in foster care or are aging out of it, are ex-offenders, have disabilities, or are children of incarcerated parents.

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Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade Ungraded
Published: 2016
Math

Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Investigations in Number, Data, and Space; Math Expressions; Saxon Math; and Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics

Four early elementary school math curricula: Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Investigations), Math Expressions, Saxon Math (Saxon), and Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics (SFAW)

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First Grade Second Grade
Published: 2010
English Language Arts Math

Teacher Advancement Program (TAP): Improving Student Achievement by Attracting, Retaining, and Supporting Talented Teachers

The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) is a schoolwide reform that aims to improve teacher quality and student achievement by providing performance-based incentives, mentoring, and professional development opportunities for teachers. TAP includes weekly meetings of teachers and mentors, regular classroom observations by a school leadership team, and annual performance bonuses based on a combination of teacher value-added to student achievement and observed performance in the classroom. The program also provides opportunities for teachers to earn extra pay and responsibilities through promotion to mentor or master teacher roles.

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Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade
Published: 2010
Non-Academic Area

CW-FIT: Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams to Encourage Students to Demonstrate Appropriate Behavioral Skills and Create a Positive Learning Environment

CW-FIT is a program that targets student behavior, particularly disruptive and off-task behavior, by teaching and reinforcing social skills through a game-like intervention. The program involves teachers selecting target skills, such as following directions and ignoring inappropriate peer behavior, and using short, scripted lessons to teach these skills to students. Students are then divided into teams and earn points for demonstrating the target skills, with winning teams receiving rewards. CW-FIT can be implemented during whole-class instruction or while students are working independently or in small groups.

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Kindergarten First Grade Third Grade Sixth Grade Ninth Grade Tenth Grade
Published: 2023
English Language Arts

Waterford Early Reading Program: Teaching Alphabetics to Kindergarteners and Early Elementary Students

Waterford Early Reading Program is a curriculum that targets alphabetics and comprehension skills in kindergarten to second-grade students. The program is divided into three levels, each designed for individualized, year-long instruction. The first level includes print concepts, phonological awareness, and letter recognition. The second level includes letter sounds, word recognition, and beginning reading comprehension. The third level builds on levels one and two with an emphasis on content meaning of text and fluency in reading. Each level contains hundreds of songs and game-like activities with color graphics, digitized voices, and animation. The program includes software, assessment materials, classroom lessons, homework materials, and classroom posters, as well as student take-home books, CDs, and handouts.

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Kindergarten
Published: 2007
English Language Arts

Tier-2 Early Vocabulary Intervention (EVI): Supplemental Vocabulary Instruction to Support Kindergarteners at Risk for Language and Learning Difficulties

Early Vocabulary Intervention (EVI) is a supplemental intervention that targets vocabulary learning in kindergarten students at risk for language and learning difficulties. EVI is designed to reteach and reinforce vocabulary taught in Tier-1 classroom instruction through highly engaging activities that promote depth of understanding and extended language use. The intervention is implemented in small groups of three or four students outside of the classroom for 30 minutes per day, 4 days per week, over the course of approximately 22 weeks. EVI includes interactive activities that provide students with opportunities to discriminate between examples and nonexamples of pictures representing target words, use target words to describe pictures and discuss personal experiences, discuss connections between target vocabulary and other words and concepts, and participate in meaningful conversations with peers about target words.

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Kindergarten
Published: 2019
Science & STEM

CompuPower: A Culturally Responsive Computing Program for High School Students

CompuPower is a multifaceted program for high school students centered on a culturally responsive computing course. CompuPower builds on another program, called CompuGirls, that Scott and her colleagues developed and studied for the past 20 years to address the underrepresentation of women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. For this project, funded by a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) development grant, Scott and her colleagues revised and expanded CompuGirls to develop a program for high school students of all genders.

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Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade
Published: 2022