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Success Boston Coaching: One-on-one Coaching to Improve College Completion Rates of Boston-Area High School Graduates

Success Boston Coaching is a program that aims to improve the college completion rates of Boston-area high school graduates by providing one-on-one transition coaching to students starting as early as their senior year in high school through their first two years in college. The program targets high school seniors in transition to attending two- and four-year colleges in the Greater Boston area who are traditionally underrepresented in college, such as low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color. The program includes one-on-one transition coaching, financial aid information and nudges, other direct services, financial support, and professional development for coaches. Coaching is primarily conducted in-person, but students may reach their coaches via phone, email, text message, or social media. Coaches meet with students as frequently as needed throughout their participation, with a minimum of two meetings per month. Topics addressed during coaching sessions include academics, financial aid, career planning, and managing life responsibilities.

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Postsecondary
Published: 2020
English Language Arts Math Science & STEM

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program: Reengaging High School Dropouts through Residential and Postresidential Phases

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is a program that targets high school dropouts. It is a 20-week residential program that includes an intensive residential phase with military-style discipline, a comprehensive focus on activities thought to promote positive youth development, and a postresidential program built around mentoring. The program includes eight core components: Leadership/Followership, Responsible Citizenship, Service to Community, Life-Coping Skills, Physical Fitness, Health and Hygiene, Job Skills, and Academic Excellence. The program also includes a postresidential phase that involves a structured mentoring program, where young people nominate their own mentors during the application process, and the staff screen and train the mentors.

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Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade
Published: 2009
English Language Arts

Start Making a Reader Today (SMART): One-on-One Reading Tutoring for Early Elementary Students

Start Making a Reader Today (SMART) is a reading program intended to target early reading skills in elementary school students. SMART lessons use one-on-one tutoring sessions and four reading strategies: reading to students, reading with students, re-reading, and asking comprehension questions. Volunteers undergo a 1-2 hour training and use a handbook to guide their tutoring sessions, which occur twice a week for 30 minutes throughout the school year.

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First Grade Second Grade
Published: 2007
Non-Academic Area

ONYC-Family Rewards: A Conditional Cash Transfer Program to Improve Education, Health, and Employment Outcomes for Low-Income Families

ONYC-Family Rewards is a multi-pronged intervention that ties cash rewards to a pre-specified set of activities and outcomes in the areas of children's education, family preventive health care, and parents' employment. The program is intended to target low-income families in high-poverty communities. ONYC-Family Rewards promotes the extent to which children and their parents become connected and engaged with three key settings and systems - namely education, employment, and health care. The program is implemented through a network of local organizations, called Neighborhood Partner Organizations (NPOs), which recruit and enroll eligible families, provide ongoing customer service, and conduct informational workshops on how to earn and claim rewards. Families earn rewards by meeting certain conditions, such as children's attendance and academic performance, and parents' employment and health care utilization. Rewards are paid every two months, and families can access the money through bank accounts or stored value cards.

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Fourth Grade Seventh Grade Ninth Grade
Published: 2011
Science & STEM

Curriculum-based professional development program with a comprehensive, year-long program of instructional materials and a seven-day professional development program

A year-long professional development program for science teachers that focuses on introducing teachers to the physical and philosophical components of instructional materials, strengthening their content background, and use of key instructional strategies essential to effective, high-fidelity use of the materials.

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Ninth Grade
Published: 2011
English Language Arts

Reading Recovery

Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention that provides one-on-one tutoring to first-grade students who are struggling in reading. The supplementary program aims to promote literacy skills and foster the development of reading strategies by tailoring individualized lessons to each student. Tutoring is delivered by Reading Recovery teachers in 30-minute pull-out sessions, which include reading familiar books, story composition, assembling stories using cut-up sentences, and previewing and reading new books. Sessions are held daily for 12-20 weeks.

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First Grade
Published: 2014