Title: Science
TIER III- Intensive Instruction & Intervention
● Freshman Academy
students who are
struggling in Honors
Biology/ICS will be pulled
out of class (perhaps Life
Skills class) and given
specific personalized
instruction to “catch
up” students who are
struggling.
TIER II- Strategic or Supplemental Instruction & Intervention
● Freshman Academy Honors
Biology students will receive
monthly Saturday review/
enrichment sessions.
These sessions will monitor
and review the students
progress in order to ensure
success on the Biology CST.
● Freshman Academy Honors
Biology intervention will be
conducted by FA teachers.
● Hands-on Labs for ICS
intervention for CST with
pre/post assessment (CST
Questions).
● Weekly grade check sent
Focus:
● Freshman Academy ICS ● After each 5-week grading
CST’s pull out into a
specified period by period
common area for all
teacher’s from their ICS
class to a specified ICS
area at the 5, 10, 15 week
grades. Duration 1 week.
IE: period 1 fails go to the
teacher who’s conference ● Parent conference
is 1st period for facilitation
and intervention.
● Follow-up common assessments
with grouping of students from
all teachers who did not meet
standards for before school / after
school / lunchtime intensive re-
teaching (paid???)(not necessarily
if done during conference period)
● Online Intervention through Moodle
● Chemskillbuilder.com (purchase
license)
● Peer to peer tutoring e.g.
AP biology tutors biology.
incentives - students assessed
after tutoring & can receive
class credit for standards
learned / tutors can receive
Academics
period, mandatory 5-
week after-school class
for failing students -
Teacher supervised, AP
students tutoring focus
standards - failure to
attend results in addition
to No-Go list (see Tier II)
required for students
escalating to Tier III
● Biology/Chemistry/Physics/
Geology before and after school
programs
● No-Go List - Students who fail
class & refuse to participate
in out-of-class academic
interventions are refused
teacher permission to miss class
for any activities (field trips,
athletic competition, etc.)
● Parent letter home signed &
returned before escalation to
Tier II
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tutee success

TIER I- Core Instruction

● Freshman Academy ● Common Standards -based ● Vertical Lesson Planning. Literacy

Honors Biology Assessments - finals, unit ● Avid Strategies in the ● Common templates for
incorporates the exams classroom. thinking maps
expectation that ● Project-based ● Diagnostic Testing Pre/ ● Word walls
Agilemind will be part assessments Post ● Analysis of high frequency
of the students everyday ● Use data from PA & ● Pacing Plans / Brochures word parts - common
homework. common department ● My Data- CELDT, IEP’s, prefixes, roots, suffixes
● Freshman Academy will assessments to modify 504’s ● Reading comprehension /
utilize Pre/Post test in all instruction throughout the paired reading activities
sciences and monitored school year ● Cooperative learning
for areas of needs. ● Common Standards-based ● High interest
● Freshman Academy labs supplemental reading -
Biology/ICS labs will be ● Instructional Guides / Popular Science, World
conducted regularly in pacing plans Ark, Popular Mechanics,
order to assure access Physics of Christmas, etc.
to hands on laboratory ● CST Grade change
activities. incentive - depending on
● Freshman Academy results from 2009-2010
Physical Geology
will conduct Initial
Assessment, Unit Exams,
Mid-Terms (power point
and/or project), Finals 2
parts 1st project based
and 2nd Exam based.
● Freshman Academy
Physical Geology will work
with Chemistry,Physics
and Biology Department
for lesson planning, and
vertical teaming.
● Freshman Academy
science teachers will all
use common labs
● Freshman Academy will
work academy-wide to
put all grades online to
parent can view current
data.