Tag » intervention

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  Academic literacy instruction for adolescents: A guidance document from the Center on Instruction.

  1/1/07 - Torgesen, J. K., Houston, D. D. , Rissman, L. M. , Decker, S. M. , Roberts, G. , Vaughn, S. , Wexler, J., Francis, D. J. , Rivera, M. O., Lesaux, N.

  This document developed by the Center on Instruction's Reading, Special Education and ELL Strands makes recommendations for improving literacy-related instruction in the content areas or across the entire school day, interventions for students reading below grade level, and recommendations for supporting literacy development in adolescent English language learners.

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  Acknowledging Children’s Positive Behaviors

  1/1/07 - Matt Timm, Sharon Doubet

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Acknowledging positive behaviors is a strategy...

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  Addressing dropout related factors at the local level: Recommendations for teachers

  1/1/08 - Smith, S.C.

  As educators and practitioners continue to seek effective interventions to prevent dropout, they must focus on identifying, monitoring, and addressing risk factors that are influenced by teachers (e.g., academic performance, peer and adult interactions, attendance, and behavior).

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  Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions

  1/1/07 - Kennelly, Louise, Monrad, M.

  This report outlines steps that schools can take to identify at-risk students and provide the necessary support systems and relevant interventions to assist students in obtaining a high school diploma. Further, the report discusses the use of early warning data systems to target interventions for groups and individual students, offers a variety of best practice approaches undertaken by higher-performing high schools, and presents effective programs that are currently being implemented to...

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  Arrested Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida

  1/1/06 - Florida State Conference NAACP, Advancement Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc.,

  Arresting Development: Addressing the School Discipline Crisis in Florida reveals the findings of these public hearings, which were held in five cities and covered six school districts: Pinellas/Hillsborough (St. Petersburg, FL), Duval (Jacksonville, FL), Palm Beach (West Palm Beach, FL), Broward (Fort Lauderdale, FL), and Miami-Dade (Miami, FL). This report is intended to document the compelling and informative discussions that occurred among the hundreds of hearing participants—parents...

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  Building Positive Teacher-Child Relationships

  1/1/04 - M.M. Ostrosky, E.Y. Jung

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. In early childhood settings, each moment that...

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  Cognitive behavioral interventions: An effective approach to help students with disabilities stay in school

  Riccomini, P., Bost, L.W. , Katsiyannis, A., Zhang, D.

  This Practice Brief based on the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) supported work by The What Works In Transition Synthesis Center, The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions on Dropout for Youth with Disabilities (Cobb, Sample, Alwell, & Johns, 2005), provides educators with a conceptual understanding and technical information to assist in implementing cognitive-behavioral interventions that reduce aggressive behaviors in students.

• Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention

  1/1/08 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

  Participants in this professional learning module will become familiar with the basic structures and features of culturally responsive RTI with a focus on ensuring that general education provides robust, high quality opportunities to learn for all students. Participants will also identify traditional attitudes related to what counts as evidence in research and practice, expand upon these views, and design interventions for their own pedagogy that take into account the role of culture in...

• Engaging students with school: The essential dimension of dropout prevention programs TELESEMINAR

  1/22/08 - Christenson, S.

  Student engagement with school, a multidimensional construct, is considered the primary theoretical model for understanding dropout and is, quite frankly, the bottom line in interventions to promote school completion. Variously described as a commitment to and investment in learning, identification and belonging at school, participation in the school environment, and initiation of an activity to accomplish an outcome, engagement is associated with desired academic, social, and emotional...

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  Evaluating the impact of interventions that promote successful transitions from high school

  1/1/08 - Bangse, Michael

  This research brief examines the challenges and opportunities presented in evaluating whether an intervention achieves defined goals of increasing students' educational attainment, employment, and earnings after high school.

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  Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children

  1/1/05 - S. Twardosz

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Warmth and affection are aspects of positive...

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  Fathers and Father-Figures: Their Important Role in Children’s Social and Emotional Development

  1/1/04 - A. Quesenberry , M.M. Ostrosky , R.M. Corso

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. Over the past 50 years, the role of fathers...

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  Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children: Labeling Emotions

  1/1/05 - G. Joseph , P. Strain, M. M. Ostrosky

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments.Emotional literacy is the ability to identify...

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  Helping Children Express Their Wants and Needs

  1/1/05 - M.M. Ostrosky, M. L. Hemmeter , J. Murry, G. Cheatham

  This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. In early childhood settings, each moment that...

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  Identifying and monitoring outcomes related to children's social-emotional development

  Hemmeter, M. L., Ostrosky, M.

  Many young children engage in challenging behavior when they do not have the social or communicative skills to express their needs or feelings in appropriate ways. This fact sheet discusses how to prevent and address problem behavior by teaching children social skills they can use in place of problem behavior.

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  Interventions for adolescent struggling readers: A meta-analysis with implications for practice

  1/1/07 - Scammacca, N., Roberts, G., Vaughn. S. , Edmonds, M. , Wexler, J., Reutebuch, C. K., Torgesen, J. K.

  This 2007 brief is a meta-analysis of thirty-one studies on interventions targeting adolescents struggling with reading. Specifically, it looks at how effective interventions are for struggling adolescent readers, what the specific impact of reading interventions are on reading comprehension, and what specific impact reading interventions have for students with learning disabilities. The analysis further categories study findings depending on the type of reading intervention, the grade...