OVERVIEW
Project ACHIEVE is an innovative school reform program targeting academically and socially at-risk and underachieving students that has been implemented in numerous school systems across the country. Project ACHIEVE focuses on helping individual schools to strategically plan for and address their immediate and long-term student needs. This is done through an integrated process that involves organizational and resource development, comprehensive professional development training and follow-up, and parent and community involvement — all leading to direct and preventive services for our at-risk students.PROJECT COMPONENTS
This workshop will discuss the seven
components of Project ACHIEVE: (a) Strategic Planning and Organizational Analysis and
Development; (b) Systematic Problem-Solving; (c) Effective Classroom Teacher/Staff
Development; (d) Instructional Consultation and Curriculum-Based Assessment and
Intervention; (e) Behavioral Assessment, Intervention, and Social Skills Training; (f)
Parent Training, Tutoring, and Support; and (g) Research and Accountability.
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
The major accomplishments of Project
ACHIEVE have included (a) a 75% decrease in student referrals to special education, (b) a
67% decrease in student placements in special education, (c) a 28% decline in total
disciplinary referrals to the principal’s office, (d) a decline in student grade
retentions from 6% of the total population to .006% of the student population, (e) a
decline in out-of-school suspensions from 9% of the student population to 3% of the
student population, (f) an increase in the number of students scoring above the 50th
percentile on end-of-the-year achievement tests, especially for those involved at the
youngest ages, (g) an improvement in teachers’ perceptions of school climate, and (h)
academic improvements for those students whose parents were trained in the Parent Drop-In
Center.
COMMENDATIONS
Project ACHIEVE was presented at the
National Education Goals Panel/National Association of Pupil Personnel Service
Organization’s "Safe Schools, Safe Communities" conference and the National
Education Association’s Safe Schools Summit, and was highlighted on an ABC
News’ 20/20 program on "Being Teased, Taunted, and Bullied" in
April, 1995. It was designated as the best Model Student Services Program in Florida by
the state Department of education in its "Promising Programs and Practices"
competition, it received Honorable Mention in USA TODAY’s 1995 Community Solutions
for Education national awards program, and it was a semifinalist in the U.S.
Department of Education’s National Awards Program for Model Professional Development
in 1997.
For more information about Project Achieve please contact the
following:
[footer.htm]Dr. Howard M. Knoff
Director, Project ACHIEVE
8505 Portage Avenue
Tampa, FL 33647NOTE NEW WEBSITE ADDRESSES:
www.stopandthinksocialskills.com
www.projectachieve.infoPhone: 813-978-1718
FAX: 813-972-1392
E-mail: knoffprojectachieve@earthlink.net
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