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Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) and Completing Homework by Improving Efficiency and Focus (CHIEF)

Two brief school-based interventions targeting homework problems in middle school students with ADHD. HOPS focuses on organization and planning skills including materials organization (bookbag, binder, locker systems), homework recording in a planner, and time-management/planning for projects and tests. CHIEF focuses on improving focus and efficiency during homework completion through structured work sessions with behavioral monitoring, work completion goals, and a token/points system. Both interventions consist of 16 individual sessions (20 minutes or less each) delivered twice weekly for the first 10 sessions, then once weekly for the final 6 sessions, completed over 11 weeks. Students are pulled from elective periods during the school day. Both include two 1-hour parent meetings to teach parents monitoring and reward strategies. School mental health providers with master's degrees in counseling deliver the interventions after receiving manuals and two 1-hour training meetings, with no ongoing supervision.

2017

Low

11 Weeks

Cost per student

$345.27

Success for All (SFA)

Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Success for All (SFA) is a comprehensive whole-school reform model designed to improve reading skills for elementary school students, particularly those from low-income families. The program serves students in kindergarten through grade 6 and includes multiple components: a structured reading curriculum emphasizing phonics for beginning readers and comprehension for all students; scripted, briskly paced lessons using extensive cooperative learning in pairs and small groups; cross-grade ability grouping for reading with quarterly regrouping; frequent assessments of student learning; computerized small-group tutoring and individual tutoring for struggling students; Solutions Teams to address academic, behavioral, and attendance issues and promote parent/community involvement; schoolwide and classroom programs for social-emotional and conflict resolution skills; and initial and ongoing professional development for teachers with data monitoring. Schools must vote to adopt the program (requiring 75% teacher approval) and provide a full-time program facilitator. SFAF provides essential training, curriculum materials, a data system (Member Center) for monitoring progress, and a computerized tutoring system (Team Alphie).

2015

108 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Rural Math Excel Partnership (RMEP) Project

7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

The Rural Math Excel Partnership (RMEP) Project is a model of shared responsibility among families, teachers, and communities in rural Virginia areas designed to prepare students for success in advanced high school and postsecondary STEM studies. The program targets students in Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and Algebra Functions and Data Analysis (AFDA) courses across 14 schools in six rural Local Education Agencies. Core components include: (1) a gap analysis and development of a Math Advanced Study (MAS) guide that identifies essential math competencies for STEM workforce readiness, (2) professional development and ongoing coaching for participating teachers, (3) Family Math Nights conducted by teachers to engage parents, (4) a project website and social media presence providing resources, (5) community-based STEM career events, and (6) technology access including tablets and broadband internet for students to complete online video homework assignments through Khan Academy via the MARi platform. The intervention was implemented from 2013-2015, with full implementation occurring in fall 2015 when the project focused on 24 high-implementing teachers. Teachers assign instructional videos as homework to help students master foundational math competencies needed for STEM careers.

2016

18 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Passport Reading Journeys

6th Grade, 7th Grade

Passport Reading Journeys (PRJ) is a comprehensive supplemental literacy curriculum for middle and high school students reading significantly below grade level. The program uses direct, explicit instruction in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and word study with age-appropriate fiction and non-fiction texts. PRJ is delivered through 50-minute daily lessons, 5 days per week, formatted as 15 two-week reading expeditions focused on science or social studies topics. Each week includes four days of teacher-led lessons building fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, plus one day of online practice using SOLO (Strategic Online Learning Opportunities). The program includes embedded assessments for progress monitoring, a library of Lexile-leveled books and magazines, and optional reteach or writing extensions. Teachers receive professional development including launch training, online product training modules, and monthly coaching visits from Voyager implementation specialists. The Louisiana implementation targeted 6th and 7th grade students scoring Below Basic on state assessments, with classes limited to 20 students maximum.

2012

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Ethnic Studies Curriculum

9th Grade

The Ethnic Studies curriculum is a year-long, ninth-grade course implemented in San Francisco Unified School District high schools. The course focuses on the experiences, perspectives, and histories of traditionally underrepresented ethnic and racial groups, emphasizing themes of social justice, discrimination, stereotypes, and social movements from U.S. history spanning the late 18th century until the 1970s. Students explore their individual identity, family history, and community history, and are required to design and implement service-learning projects based on their study of their local community. The course uses culturally relevant pedagogy to engage students who have previously felt marginalized by traditional curriculum. Students with eighth-grade GPAs below 2.0 were automatically enrolled in the course when they received their course schedule at the start of their ninth-grade year, though they could opt out after consulting with their academic counselor. The curriculum was developed over two years (2007-2009) by ten SFUSD social studies teachers forming the "Ethnic Studies Curriculum Collective" with support from faculty at San Francisco State University's College of Ethnic Studies.

2016

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Multi-Component Consultation

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Multi-Component Consultation is a consultation package designed for elementary school teachers to improve their classroom management skills and implementation of behavioral interventions, specifically targeting teachers with lower baseline levels of knowledge, skills, and intervention-supportive beliefs. Teachers receive up to eight biweekly consultation sessions (averaging 38 minutes each) focused on general classroom management strategies (labeled praise, use of rules, effective instructions, appropriate response to rule violations) and implementation of a daily report card (DRC) intervention with one target student with or at-risk for ADHD. The intervention is delivered through face-to-face consultation sessions conducted during, before, or after school. The multi-component package includes: (1) an initial 3-hour workshop on ADHD, general classroom management, and DRC; (2) a knowledge component with fact sheets titled 'News You Can Use' provided one week prior to each session; (3) a skills component involving role plays, skills practice, observation of video models, and enhanced performance feedback with graphs of student progress and implementation procedures; and (4) a beliefs component using motivational interviewing techniques and cognitive behavioral strategies to identify and modify teacher beliefs that may serve as barriers to implementation. Facilitators are post-doctoral fellows, master's level clinicians, or graduate students in psychology who attend a 3-day training and receive ongoing supervision.

2017

Low

Cost per student

$254.52

Building Blocks Software Suite

Kindergarten

Building Blocks is a mathematics software program designed to develop understanding and skill fluency in numeracy and geometry for children ages 4-9. The software includes more than 200 activities organized into topical learning trajectories based on research. For this study, only numeracy games were used, targeting skills like counting, comparing and ordering numbers, subitizing, composing numbers, and arithmetic operations. Students worked individually on computers during designated computer lab time, receiving 90 minutes of computer-assisted instruction per week for 21 weeks (spread across 30 calendar weeks). The software is adaptive, adjusting difficulty levels based on individual student performance, and allows students to move between games independently. Three research assistants supervised sessions to provide technical assistance and behavioral support.

2016

4 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Parent Engagement Project (PEP)

7th Grade, 9th Grade, 11th Grade

The Parent Engagement Project (PEP) is a school-based intervention designed to improve pupil outcomes by engaging parents in their children's learning through text messages. The intervention targets secondary school students in Years 7, 9, and 11 (ages 11-16) across English, mathematics, and science subjects. Text messages are sent to parents via existing school communication systems (such as Schoolcomms) to inform them about upcoming tests (4 days and 1 day in advance), missing homework (automated alerts), and what their child learned in lessons (conversational prompts sent on a three-weekly rotation between subjects). Parents receive approximately 30 texts over the academic year (intended to be 65). The program is delivered universally to all students within the selected Key Stage group. Teachers attend 1.5 days of training (one full day in September and half-day in January). During the trial, research assistants from the project delivery team coordinated text sending by liaising with school project liaison officers, obtaining test dates and conversation prompts from heads of department, and encouraging use of missing homework texting tools.

2017

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC)

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC) is a family-school partnership intervention designed to address children's problem behaviors across home and school settings. CBC involves parents and teachers working together through a structured problem-solving process guided by a consultant. The intervention includes three to four collaborative meetings over approximately eight weeks, during which parents and teachers identify target behaviors, analyze their function, develop and implement evidence-based behavioral intervention plans across both home and school, and evaluate progress. CBC emphasizes strengths-based approaches, shared goals, bi-directional communication, perspective-taking, skill building, and relationship building between parents and teachers. The intervention targets elementary-aged children (kindergarten through third grade) with disruptive behaviors such as noncompliance, aggressiveness, and tantrums. Implementation includes consultant-led meetings with individual parent-teacher pairs, home visits to support parents' plan implementation, and the use of empirically-based behavioral strategies including positive reinforcement, environmental structuring, skills training, and reductive techniques.

2017

High

8 Weeks

Cost per student

$5,691.56

Passport to Literacy

4th Grade

Passport to Literacy is a year-long supplemental reading intervention for fourth-grade students with reading comprehension difficulties (scoring at or below the 30th percentile). The program provides multi-component reading instruction delivered in small groups of 4-7 students for 30-minute sessions, 4 days per week throughout the school year (up to 120 lessons). Each lesson includes an Adventure Starter activity (3-5 minutes) to build background knowledge, followed by two major components: Word Works (word study teaching students to decode multisyllabic words using affixes, roots, and syllabication strategies, with more intensive instruction in the first six weeks) and Read to Understand (teaching vocabulary, comprehension skills and strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts, including previewing, text structure, making inferences, summarizing, and questioning). Interventionists require approximately 8 hours of training over two days, with ongoing twice-monthly coaching visits and monthly meetings to ensure fidelity.

2017

19 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

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