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A program that uses worked examples with self-explanation to improve student learning in Algebra.
Positive Action is a curriculum that aims to improve student behavior and academic achievement by teaching positive actions and promoting a positive school climate. The program consists of a core curriculum and optional components, including site-wide climate development, drug education, conflict resolution, counselor, parent, and family classes, and community/coalition development. The curriculum is organized into six teaching units and a seventh review unit, with approximately 140 lessons per grade level in elementary school and 132 lessons per kit in high school. Teachers can implement the entire set of lessons or choose a partial implementation of at least 20 lessons per grade level. The program also includes various teaching aids, such as instructor's manuals, group materials, activity booklets, and posters.
My Teaching Partner-Secondary (MTP-S) is a coaching program focused on improving teacher-student interactions in secondary classrooms to enhance student motivation and achievement. MTP-S uses the domains of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System-Secondary (CLASS-S) and integrates initial workshop-based training, an annotated video library, and a year of personalized coaching followed by a brief booster workshop. During the school year, teachers send in video recordings of class sessions, and trained teacher consultants review and select brief segments that illustrate either positive teacher interactions or areas for growth in one of the dimensions in the CLASS-S. This is followed by a 20-to 30-minute phone conference in which the consultant strategizes with the teacher about ways to enhance interactions using the CLASS-S system.
Data-Based Individualization (DBI) is an intensive intervention program that uses student data to determine when and how to adapt, intensify, and individualize interventions for students with severe and persistent mathematics learning needs, including students with disabilities. DBI involves a five-step process: (1) using a validated intervention program or platform aligned with the student's area of need, (2) monitoring progress using a valid and reliable assessment tool, (3) collecting additional diagnostic data to determine the student's instructional needs and hypothesize productive adaptations to the intervention program, (4) implementing the adaptation(s), and (5) continuing to monitor progress to determine response. DBI is typically implemented in a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) and involves ongoing support and professional development for teachers to develop and increase their knowledge and ability to implement DBI in mathematics.
Youth CareerConnect (YCC) is a high school-based program that blends academic and career-focused learning and aims to prepare students for both college and careers. The program is designed to strengthen America's talent pipeline by enhancing students' high school experience to put them on a pathway to complete postsecondary education and occupational skills training, obtain industry-recognized credentials, and secure an unsubsidized job in middle-to high-skilled H-1B occupations and industries.
The Student Mentoring Program is a school-based effort that provides funding for grantees to develop programs to assist students who lack positive role models and are at risk of educational failure, dropping out, or involvement in criminal or delinquent activities. The program matches at-risk students with trained adult or peer (secondary school) mentors to form positive relationships through regularly scheduled academic, social and recreational activities. ED funding decisions give absolute priority to programs that address the academic and behavioral problems of students with the greatest need living in rural and/or high crime areas, in troubled home environments, and/or who attend schools with violence problems. The program focuses on students in grades 4 through 8. While the legislation does not limit funding solely to school-based efforts, it gives priority to school-based mentoring programs.
Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER)
Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program
Open Court Reading is a curriculum that includes textbooks, workbooks, decodable books, and anthologies, and is intended to target reading achievement and comprehension in elementary school students. The curriculum consists of three main components: (a) Preparing to Read, (b) Reading and Responding, and (c) Language Arts. The program is designed to be used for 2.5 hours per day with grades 1-2 and for 2 hours per day with grades 4-6. Teachers were given a teacher's edition of the curriculum that included scripted direct instruction lessons and diagnostic and assessment packages. The intervention was implemented from fall to spring during the 2005-06 school year.
