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Direct linkSegersten, Margaret Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to analyze a First Grade Summer Jumpstart program after the first year of implementation to evaluate the effectiveness of the program to positively impact academic achievement in reading and math for first grade students. In order to achieve this overall objective, the following research questions framed…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedGomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Gomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Visse, Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This program evaluation examined students that entered kindergarten not ready on the Brigance screener and received research based reading interventions to determine if an elementary school was successful in closing the achievement gap so that they would have the literacy skills needed to be successful in first grade. Evidence of success was based…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, School Readiness, Achievement Gap
Download full textEstrella, Denise; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley; Nguyen, Kimberly; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2019
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Administrators need learning opportunities if they are to adequately understand the substantial shifts of the Next…
Descriptors: School Districts, Science Education, State Standards, Kindergarten
Smith, Michelle C. Howell; Stevens, Jared – Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, 2019
High-quality afterschool and summer programming serve an important role in Nebraska communities. They engage students emotionally, intellectually, and socially (National Research Council, 2015). They provide safe and caring supervision for children who might otherwise be unsupervised outside of school hours, they also discourage negative…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Attendance
Ludwig, Meredith; Song, Mengli – American Institutes for Research, 2015
In 2010, the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts (Wolf Trap), was awarded a U.S. Department of Education Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grant. The purpose of the AEMDD grant was to develop, implement, and disseminate a research-based program of professional…
Descriptors: Art Education, Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development, Summer Programs
Hart, Katie C.; Graziano, Paulo A.; Kent, Kristine M.; Kuriyan, Aparajita; Garcia, Alexis; Rodriguez, Madison; Pelham, William E., Jr. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
The objective of this study was to evaluate two early intervention packages to promote successful transitions to kindergarten for preschoolers with behavior problems recruited from Head Start preschools. Fifty children (M[subscript age] = 61 months; 76% male; 98% minority) referred by teachers due to early externalizing behavior problems were…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Behavior Problems, School Readiness, Workshops
Brunner, Josie; Malerba, Cathy – Online Submission, 2010
In 2009, Austin Independent School District (AISD) offered an English learner summer bilingual program, serving 1,645 rising kindergarten students and 1,712 rising 1st-grade students at 10 campuses to prevent the loss of academic skills between school years. This report summarizes the program's student enrollment, attendance, and academic…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Kindergarten, Young Children
Washington, Wanda – Online Submission, 2004
This report summarizes activities in the AISD state-funded Optional Extended Year program for the 2003-2004 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Extended School Year, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
