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Non-Academic Area

Get the Picture?!: Guiding and Engaging Exceptional Teens to Increase College and Career Readiness

Get the Picture?! is an educational program designed to increase the college and career readiness of exceptional students with disabilities. The program involves one-on-one guidance and support from a career strategist, who meets with students at least weekly to monitor their Individual Learning Plan (ILP). The ILP focuses on college and/or career readiness with realistic, big-picture goals and action steps for life after high school. The program also includes a school-based Support Team that coordinates and monitors the one-on-one work and Student-to-Strategist match. Additionally, the program provides opportunities for family engagement, including at least two family events per year and regular family contact.

Ninth Grade Tenth Grade Eleventh Grade Twelfth Grade

Published: 2020

Math Science & STEM

G 2 ROW STEM: Providing Students with Engaging, Hands-on, Project-based, Extended-learning Experiences to Inspire Interest in STEM and Improve Achievement

G 2 ROW STEM is a program that targets high-need middle school students, particularly females and minorities, that tend to be underrepresented in STEM careers. G 2 ROW STEM focuses on providing students with engaging, hands-on, project-based, extended-learning experiences to inspire interest in STEM and improve achievement. The program integrates four core strategies to support the impact of high-quality STEM extended learning and career-focused, applied experiences on academic achievement, STEM engagement, and STEM career aspirations for low-income, underserved middle school students. The program model includes Saturday STEM sessions, STEM Summer Camps, STEM Professional Development, STEM Conferences, PBL Training and Support, STEM Industry Experiences, and Community STEM Awareness.

Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade

Published: 2021

English Language Arts

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Improving Reading Comprehension of Students with Diverse Abilities

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a set of instructional strategies designed to improve the reading comprehension of students with diverse abilities. CSR uses a mix of whole class instruction and small cooperative learning groups, so that a teacher can work with an entire class at the same time. CSR, and the professional development provided to classroom teachers in conjunction with it, is designed to increase teachers' knowledge of reading comprehension and, consequently, affect teacher practice in the classroom. It uses explicit strategy instruction to teach metacognitive and self-monitoring skills that are expected to lead to improved reading comprehension. In theory, such knowledge should help students recognize whether they understand the information they read and take corrective steps when they do not. The intervention developers theorize that teacher and student use of CSR results in improved student reading comprehension, which in turn increases reading achievement. Because CSR involves changes to teachers' instructional practices, regardless of subject matter, it can be used with a wide variety of curricula,

Fifth Grade

Published: 2011

Non-Academic Area

VISTA: Providing Financial Aid to Low-Income Students to Improve College Outcomes

VISTA Scholarship program

Postsecondary

Published: 2011

English Language Arts

Transition Lessons: Supporting the Transition From Spanish to English Reading Instruction for First-Grade English Learners at Risk of Reading Difficulties

Transition Lessons

First Grade

Published: 2015

English Language Arts

Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD): Teaching Writing Strategies to Students with Learning Disabilities

Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is an academic practice developed for teaching writing and other related skills to young students with learning difficulties. SRSD is intended to target writing achievement for students with a specific learning disability. SRSD lessons use strategies such as goal-setting, self-monitoring, and self-regulation to develop writing skills. The practice has evolved over time and can now be used with students in grades 2 through 12 across multiple content areas, and in individual, small group, or whole classroom settings. SRSD can be used with all students, but it is especially appropriate for students with learning disabilities.

Second Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade Ninth Grade Tenth Grade

Published: 2017

English Language Arts Math

School-Wide Bonus Program: A Teacher Incentive Pay Program to Improve Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

School-Wide Bonus Program is a program that links teacher salaries to student achievement to induce teachers to focus on raising student achievement and stimulate innovation in the school system as a whole. The program awards bonuses to schools that meet school-wide goals, primarily based on student achievement on state math and reading exams. Treatment schools that voted in favor of the program would earn a lump-sum bonus if school-wide goals were met. Schools that either achieved a target score or were awarded an "A" accountability grade for two consecutive years received bonuses equal to $3,000 per union teacher, while schools that fell short but managed to meet 75 percent of the target score received $1,500 per union teacher.

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade

Published: 2010

English Language Arts

Robust Academic Vocabulary Encounters (RAVE): Enhancing Academic Vocabulary Knowledge and Comprehension in Middle School Students

Robust Academic Vocabulary Encounters (RAVE) is an instructional intervention aimed to enhance academic vocabulary knowledge and comprehension across two years of middle school, sixth and seventh grades. RAVE teaches general academic words from the Academic Word List (AWL) through instruction that provides multiple varied contexts, active processing of words and word uses, and attention to morphology through instruction in Latin roots. The activities in RAVE were designed to guide students to create multifaceted representations of word meanings based on elements of meaning similarity and difference demonstrated by various contexts. RAVE lessons use pairs of authentic contexts that illustrate how a word is used in various domains, a definition built around core meaning, and prompts to integrate word meaning and context. Follow-up activities promote active use of the words, and attention to morphology is instantiated through instruction in Latin roots.

Sixth Grade Seventh Grade

Published: 2018

Math Science & STEM

INSPIRE: An Integrated K-12 STEM Pipeline Approach to Improve Math and Science Achievement

INSPIRE is an integrated K-12 STEM pipeline approach focused on STEM course content and instructional redesign. INSPIRE uses problem-based learning (PBL) as the core of its curriculum redesign and addresses limitations in STEM education by providing early, continuous engagement via a STEM pipeline starting in Kindergarten and channeling students into integrated STEM magnet programs at both middle and high school levels. INSPIRE reduces selection bias and student interest factors by intentionally and automatically placing low-income, minority students in elementary STEM magnet schools located in their neighborhood. INSPIRE links PBL with interdisciplinary STEM course content connected to the Common Core and integrates PBL units across all courses to enable students to explore the same issue in every subject with student real-world tethers (connections beyond the classroom). INSPIRE connects PBL and digital course content to personalized and tech-enabled instructional practice to impact achievement and engagement. INSPIRE revolutionizes the teacher role from transmitter to a facilitator of knowledge via substantive

Third Grade Fifth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade Tenth Grade

Published: 2018

Non-Academic Area

Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) Professional Development: Improving Team Problem Solving to Address Academic and Social Behavior Problems in Schools

Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) is a professional development program that targets improving team problem-solving practices in elementary schools. TIPS involves a 6-hour workshop and two follow-up meetings supported by coaches, teaching teams to use evidence-based and effective meeting foundations and problem-solving processes. The program focuses on using data to identify problems with precision, developing actionable goal-oriented solutions, defining action plans to guide implementation of the solutions, assessing implementation fidelity, and assessing impact. TIPS also provides technical assistance from district PBIS coaches to support teams in implementing the TIPS model.

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade

Published: 2018