Find the best evidence-based interventions for your students

START-Play (Sitting Together and Reaching to Play)

Infant/Toddler

START-Play is a physical therapy intervention for infants aged 7-16 months with neuromotor disorders who are beginning to sit. The intervention embeds cognitive constructs (means-end relations, object permanence, object affordances, joint attention) within motor activities focused on sitting and reaching. Physical therapists deliver the intervention twice weekly for 12 weeks (up to 24 sessions, averaging 51.5 minutes each) through home visits with the infant and at least one parent or caregiver. The intervention advances motor and cognitive skills together at the "just-right" level through parent-therapist brainstorming, allows movement flexibility without rigid adherence to normal patterns, and is provided within a social, engaging context guided by degrees of joint attention. Physical therapists received training including review of theoretical evidence, in-person hands-on training with infants, ongoing critique and feedback on treatment sessions, and refresher training until reaching preset adherence levels.

2020

Moderate

8 Weeks

Cost per student

$976.87

Multiple Media Vocabulary Intervention

Preschool

Multiple Media Vocabulary Intervention is a vocabulary learning program for preschoolers that uses both traditional storybooks and video presentations of comparable story content to promote incidental word learning. The intervention targets preschool-aged children (approximately 4-5 years old) and delivers stories through either a single medium (book-book or video-video) or two different media (book and video) in a counterbalanced order. Each story presentation lasts 5.5-6 minutes and includes 9 target Tier 2 vocabulary words (3 nouns, 3 adjectives, 3 verbs) repeated 4-5 times within each story. Children receive two exposures to stories approximately one hour apart, for a total of 8-10 repetitions of each target word. The intervention uses animated stories from Peep and the Big Wide World, a PBS science program designed for preschoolers. For book reading, a research assistant reads the story in a lively, animated manner with minimal interaction. For video viewing, children watch independently with the assistant present but not interacting. The intervention requires no special training for implementation beyond instructions to read engagingly and move quickly past child comments.

2021

Moderate

0.0 Weeks

Cost per student

$854

Growing, Learning, and Living With Autism (GoriLLA) Group

1st Grade, 2nd Grade

The Growing, Learning, and Living With Autism (GoriLLA) Group is a parent-assisted intervention that blends Structured TEACCHing and Social Thinking components to teach social communication and self-regulation skills to first and second grade students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are included 80-100% of the time in regular education classrooms and read on grade level or above. The program consists of 12 weekly 90-minute sessions with parent-child large and small group activities, plus 20-30 minute parent breakout sessions. Sessions teach concepts including the Zones of Regulation for emotion identification, Social Thinking vocabulary (Expected vs. Unexpected Behaviors, The Group Plan, Thinking With Your Eyes, Body in the Group, Whole Body Listening), self-regulation strategies (deep breathing, chair yoga, stress balls, progressive relaxation), and social communication skills (SENSE: Space, Eye contact, Nodding, Statements, Expressions). Parents actively participate in sessions and complete weekly homework activities with their children. The intervention uses visual supports, environmental structure, and incorporates children's special interests. Two trained clinicians with master's degrees deliver the program, assisted by a clinical psychology doctoral student or postdoctoral fellow.

2019

Low

2 Weeks

Cost per student

$451.81

In-District After-School Tutoring Program

8th Grade

In-District After-School Tutoring Program is an after-school academic intervention for eighth grade students who scored in the near-passing range (180-199) on seventh grade standardized tests in language arts or mathematics. The program provides small-group tutoring (4:1 student-teacher ratio) delivered by district teachers who are familiar with students and curriculum. Students attend tutoring sessions two afternoons per week for 90 minutes each day, from October through March, for a total of 48 hours. Tutors use test preparation materials (Preparing for the New Jersey GEPA booklets) and Standard Solutions test-taking strategies. District teachers serving as tutors attend four meetings during the program and provide weekly progress reports to classroom teachers. Students receive rewards including pizza parties and bowling parties for perfect attendance.

2011

6 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Number Line Approach Combined With Cognitive Learning Strategies

6th Grade

This intervention uses a number line-centered approach combined with cognitive learning strategies to teach fraction concepts to sixth graders struggling with mathematics. Delivered in small groups of 3-4 students, the intervention consists of 27 lessons over 6 weeks (approximately 45 minutes per lesson, totaling about 20.25 hours). Each lesson includes warm-up practice, multiplication fact practice, counting fractions aloud, 15-20 minutes of explicit instruction focused on the number line, fast-paced card games for fraction magnitude practice, and independent cool-down worksheets. The intervention covers halves, fourths, eighths, thirds, sixths, and twelfths, teaching students to partition number lines, locate fractions, understand equivalencies, compare magnitudes, and perform basic operations. Instruction incorporates explicit teaching, representational gestures, dual coding (visual and verbal), spaced and interleaved practice, and immediate feedback. Trained research assistants deliver the intervention, requiring prior training (16+ hours) on gestures, feedback strategies, and behavior management.

2019

Low

6 Weeks

Cost per student

$254.14

Relational Scaffolding

3rd Grade

Relational Scaffolding is an instructional approach that enhances children's understanding of scientific models through systematic, guided comparisons between observable phenomena and corresponding modeled events. Designed for 3rd-grade students learning about the day-night cycle, the intervention uses split-screen video footage showing both Earth-based observations (e.g., sunrise, sunset) and space-based models of Earth rotation simultaneously. A trained researcher guides students through these videos, pointing at and between perspectives to clarify temporal, spatial, and causal correspondences. The intervention progresses from an embodied simulation where students physically enact Earth's rotation, to relational scaffolding using video of their embodied experience, then to a 3D physical model simulation, and finally to relational scaffolding comparing both simulations. Sessions last 20-30 minutes each, delivered one-on-one in a quiet room at the student's school during after-school hours, twice weekly for three weeks (total of 5 instructional sessions). The approach requires video recording equipment (GoPro camera, tripod, videorecorder), video editing capabilities, a computer for displaying split-screen videos, and physical materials including a 3D Earth-Sun model. One trained researcher delivers the intervention to one student at a time.

2019

Cost per student

N/A

Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity (MEGA)

9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity (MEGA) is a twelve-week high school biology curriculum unit designed to help students gain a deeper and more integrated understanding of energy-releasing and energy-requiring chemical reactions in simple physical systems and complex biological systems, and how these reactions are coupled so that living organisms can carry out basic life functions. The unit engages students in explaining physical and life science phenomena using evidence, models, and science ideas about matter and energy changes within systems and transfers between systems. The unit is delivered face-to-face by classroom teachers after they participate in two days of face-to-face professional development. The curriculum intervention consists of instructional materials for students and additional resources for teachers.

2019

12 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Making Online Decisions (MOD) System

Infant/Toddler

The Making Online Decisions (MOD) system is an adaptive intervention that guides early educators' data-based intervention decision making for infants and toddlers at risk for language delay. The MOD is a web-based tool used by home visitors (HVs) in Early Head Start programs to support parent-mediated language promotion interventions. When a child scores at least 1 SD below benchmark on the Early Communication Indicator (ECI), the MOD automatically provides guidance through five steps: (1) validating the low score, (2) identifying potential causes, (3) recommending PC TALK language strategies based on the child's ECI performance, (4) documenting implementation through fidelity checklists, and (5) analyzing the child's progress after three follow-up ECIs. HVs use the MOD to select appropriate PC TALK strategies to share with parents, print strategy materials, and monitor children's communication growth over time. The system requires HVs to be trained and certified in administering the ECI and trained in using both the PC TALK intervention strategies and the MOD system itself.

2018

Cost per student

N/A

Teaching Early Literacy and Language (TELL) Curriculum

Preschool

Teaching Early Literacy and Language (TELL) is a tier one, whole-class curriculum designed for preschool children with developmental speech and/or language impairment (DSLI). TELL targets seven skill areas: phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, print conventions, writing, vocabulary, sentence length and complexity, and listening comprehension. The curriculum embeds evidence-based explicit and incidental teaching practices within typical preschool activities, routines, transitions, and lessons. TELL includes 34 weeks of instruction with 14 thematic units (each two weeks) and review weeks every fifth week. Implementation involves both whole group and small group instruction. Teachers receive professional development through an initial 6-hour training session, 10 two-hour group sessions throughout the year (26 hours total), and individualized in-class coaching (weekly in fall, biweekly in spring). The curriculum includes curriculum-based measures (CBMs) administered six times per year to monitor progress and inform differentiated instruction.

2019

36 Weeks

Cost per student

N/A

Accelerated College Credit Programs

9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Accelerated College Credit Programs enable high school students to earn college credits through dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Dual enrollment allows students to attend college courses taught by college faculty on campus or online. Concurrent enrollment courses are taught at the high school by high school teachers certified as adjunct faculty. AP courses are high school courses culminating in standardized exams that can earn college credit with passing scores. In Rhode Island, the state funds dual and concurrent enrollment at public colleges through the PrepareRI Dual Enrollment Fund at no cost to qualifying students. Each public college has established minimum eligibility criteria for participation.

2021

Cost per student

N/A

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