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Too Good for Drugs is a program intended to target student behavior and knowledge, attitudes, and values related to substance use. The program consists of 10 lessons at each grade level lasting 30-45 minutes per lesson, and includes information about the frequency of drug use among American youth and the harmful effects of drug use. Instructional strategies cover goal setting and decision-making skills, prosocial skills, resistance to negative peer influence skills, and interpersonal skills. Core values such as respect for self and others, empathic responding, and responsibility are integrated into the lessons. Cooperative learning activities, role-play, and skill-building methods reinforce positive behaviors and skills and encourage students to apply these behaviors and skills in other contexts.
Xtreme Reading is a 1-year program designed for middle and high school students who need explicit strategy instruction to develop the reading skills needed to master critical course content. The program focuses on 6 reading strategies: Word Mapping, Word Identification, Self-Questioning, Visual Imagery, Paraphrasing, and Inference. Xtreme Reading's core instructional approaches include direct instruction, teacher modeling, paired student practice, and independent practice. Reading motivation and self-directed learning are encouraged through collaborative learning, self-selection of highly engaging texts, and teacher think-aloud modeling. The curriculum includes trade books that are used to practice the reading strategies and encourage independent reading and a student binder that incorporates strategy cue cards, worksheets, and fluency/comprehension tests.
BCIRC (Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition) is a program that targets the development of language and reading skills in English for English language learners. BCIRC combines strategies from CIRC (Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition) with other transitional and English as a Second Language strategies to facilitate student cooperative learning discussions and discourse. The program includes 15 activities that occur before, during, and after reading, such as using BCIRC materials to develop vocabulary, making predictions of a story's content based on its title, and reading with a partner followed by silent reading. Teachers in the BCIRC program receive extensive staff development on how to use a constructivist framework to facilitate student cooperative learning discussions and discourse.
Job Corps is a program that provides vocational and academic instruction to youth, targeting those with poor literacy and numeracy skills and those who lack a high school diploma. The program offers remedial education, GED preparation classes, and vocational training in specific trades, as well as residential living services and job placement assistance. Participants receive an individualized mix of instruction and training after an initial 2-4 week orientation and assessment period. The program is typically offered in a residential setting, but some centers offer a non-residential version.
Linguistic modification is a theory-and research-based process for changing the language in test items in ways that support clarity without simplifying or significantly altering the targeted construct assessed. The linguistic modification is intended to target the reduction of construct-irrelevant language demands (for example, semantic and syntactic complexity) of text through strategies such as reduced sentence length and complexity, use of common or familiar words, and use of concrete language. The linguistic modification is used to facilitate comprehension and increase access to tested content for English language learner students.
I CAN Learn is a full-curriculum mathematics software program that provides math instruction through a series of computer-based interactive lessons that students work on individually at their own computers in middle school, high school, and college classrooms. I CAN Learn courses include Fundamentals of Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry, and each course contains 20 to 180 self-paced, mastery-based lessons that include multimedia content, such as instructional videos and animation. The program also enables teachers to conduct classroom administration tasks, such as tracking students' attendance, homework, and test grades, and generating reports to support instructional decisions.
Waterford Early Reading Program (WERP) is a research-based program that integrates technology into learning activities to teach children to read, write, and keyboard. WERP was designed to target emergent reading skills in kindergarten students. The program uses a variety of methods to teach reading skills, including phonological awareness, phonics, and comprehension. WERP is implemented in kindergarten classrooms, and students use the program for a minimum of 1100 minutes (6 months) during the school year. The program is designed to be used in conjunction with other reading instruction, and teachers are trained to use the program as part of their reading curriculum.
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SPARK Early Literacy is a family-school-community partnership literacy intervention that targets early-grade students' literacy skills and engages families in literacy activities to support their children's literacy development. The program includes in-school tutoring, afterschool enrichment, and family engagement. In-school tutoring is typically planned and administered by college students and community members, who work one-on-one with students for 30 minutes, up to three times a week. The tutoring sessions include five research-based literacy activities: Familiar activity, Word Play, Reading at the instructional level, Running Records Writing, and listening to tutors read aloud. Afterschool enrichment activities are designed to strengthen social and emotional learning and make connections between literacy and everyday experiences. Family engagement is facilitated through parent partners, who work with families to bridge the divide between school and home, and provide support for families to promote literacy at home.
