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Passport Reading Journeys (PRJ)
Drive to Write is a coaching and professional development program for teachers designed to improve student writing, specifically targeting ninth-grade students in Global History classes who will face a challenging writing component on an upcoming state exam. The program includes a writing skills syllabus, a skills-based rubric, customized technology tools such as Doctopus and Goobric, and coaching sessions to help teachers use data to inform instruction and provide actionable feedback to students. Teachers participate in professional development sessions and receive coaching support to help them implement the program's tools and strategies in their classrooms.
Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER)
Problem Based Economics is a curriculum that integrates problem-based learning with economics instruction to strengthen both content knowledge and problem-solving skills in high school students. The curriculum includes five modules that each take up a particular problem or challenge requiring economic exploration and analysis. The modules are designed to be used with a specific pedagogical strategy that involves a structured approach to problem-solving, including entry, problem framing, knowledge inventory, problem research and resources, problem twist, problem log, problem exit, and problem debriefing. Teachers are provided with professional development and ongoing support to implement the curriculum, including a five-day workshop and follow-up conference calls. The curriculum is designed to be used in a high school economics class, and the study tested its effectiveness in improving student content knowledge and problem-solving skills in economics.
Dual-Language Immersion Programs
Key Communities is a program designed to restructure the first-year experience for students from historically underrepresented populations at Colorado State University. The program creates a community with frequent and rewarding contact among faculty, staff, and students in a variety of settings, both inside and outside the classroom, to foster academic integration, personal and social integration, and cultural integration. Key Communities has five communities: Key Academic; Key Culture, Communication, and Sport; Key Explore; Key Health Professions; and Key Service, each with 75-150 students, and is further organized into smaller clusters of 19 students. The program also employs strategies such as a comprehensive recruitment process, a two-day orientation, a shared residential experience, integrated course clusters, and a leadership and staffing model that includes undergraduate Key mentors, full-time Key coordinators, and Key seminar faculty.
ALAS (Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success) is a program intended to target students identified as at risk of dropping out of school due to low academic performance and behavior problems. ALAS provides students with support and follow-up across multiple years of program participation. The program consists of six related strategies: monitoring attendance, improving student social and task-related problem-solving skills, connecting students and families with community services, providing follow-up instruction on behavior change, and delivering the ALAS Resilience Builder curriculum. ALAS is delivered on the school campus by a team of supervisors, counselors/mentors, volunteers, and clerical staff.
Class-Wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a classroom management strategy that incorporates social skills instruction, group contingencies, praise, points, and group rewards to target student behavior in an elementary school music classroom. CW-FIT involves organizing the class into groups or teams, praising and awarding points to groups that exhibit social skills and participate appropriately in class lessons, and providing rewards to groups that meet a predetermined point goal. The teacher introduces one social skill per class period, reviews the skills with the students at the beginning of each class, and displays social skills posters in the room for reference.
The Baltimore City Schools Middle School STEM Summer Program with VEX Robotics
The Building Blocks mathematics program is a comprehensive program that includes a teacher's edition, assessment and resource guides, manipulatives, "big books," and a software suite. It is intended to target the development of mathematical understanding and skills in young children, particularly those from low-income and ethnic minority backgrounds.
