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Double Check Coaching
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
Dual-Language Immersion Programs
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.
Fusion Reading is a supplemental reading intervention designed for middle and high school students who score at least 2 years below grade level on standardized reading measures. It builds on the work of the Strategic Instruction Model's Learning Strategies Curriculum and Xtreme Reading by integrating some of the same strategies, focusing on reading, and extending the time frame from 1 to 2 years in duration. Struggling students are enrolled in the supplemental intervention for one class period for 5 days a week.
Repeated reading is an academic practice that aims to increase oral reading fluency. It is intended to target students who have developed initial word reading skills but demonstrate inadequate reading fluency for their grade level. During repeated reading, a student sits in a quiet location with a teacher and reads a passage aloud at least three times. The teacher selects a passage of about 50 to 200 words in length. If the student misreads a word or hesitates for longer than 5 seconds, the teacher reads the word aloud, and the student repeats the word correctly. If the student requests help with a word, the teacher reads the word aloud or provides the definition. The student rereads the passage until he or she achieves a satisfactory fluency level.
Success for All (SFA)
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.
STeLLA (Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis) is a professional development program for teachers that aims to improve student science achievement by enhancing teachers' ability to explain science concepts, identify science concepts used in student learning activities, and engage students in thinking about science. The program consists of a 2-week summer institute, followed by eight monthly study group sessions during the school year, where teachers learn from postsecondary science faculty and STeLLA professional development leaders, analyze videorecorded lessons, and develop their own science lesson plans.
