Attachment B

Project Scope: Education II Response Fund

Programs funded to implement the Early Warning System in a Miami Dade County Public School(s) must utilize a holistic approach for addressing all three of the following focus areas simultaneously during school hours.

Focus Area / Description / Outcomes / Sample Indicators
Attendance / Activities that increase school attendancemust includeworking with school staff to:
  • Identify at-risk students monitoring attendance
  • Provide attendance related interventions, ideas include:
  • Mentoring
  • Coaching
  • Making house calls/home visits
  • Promote/improve overallschool attendance
/ Outcomes must demonstrate:
  • Improved attendance
/ Measures that indicatesuccess must include:
  • (x) % of students identified as at-risk will demonstrate improvement in attendance by (x) percentage/number of days
  • Overall school attendance will increase by at least one percentage point from previous school year
For attendance, at-risk is defined as:
  • Students that missed 10% or more of instructional time (absences/tardiness)

Behavior / Activities that improve school behaviors must include working with school staff to:
  • Identify at-riskstudents & monitoring behavior
  • Provide behavior related interventions, ideas include:
  • Mentoring
  • Small group counseling
  • Providing incentives
  • Working with families
  • Instruction/ Facilitating workshops
  • Promote/improve overall positive school behavior
/ Outcomes must demonstrate:
  • Improved behavior in school
  • Improved outlook on education & school
/ Measures that indicatesuccess must include:
  • (x) % of students identified as at-risk will demonstrate improvement in effort/conduct grades
Measures that indicatesuccess (optional) include:
  • (x) % of students identified as at-risk demonstrate improvement in pro-social student behavior (measured by evidence based assessment tool)
For behavior, at-risk is defined as:
  • Students who accrue two or more mild or serious behavior infractions

Course Performance / Activities that improve course performance must include working with school staff to:
  • Identify at-risk students at-risk & monitoring course performance
  • Provide course performance related interventions, ideas include:
  • Tutoring (reading/math)
  • Providing in-class support
  • Homework assistance
  • Organizing out-of-school time
  • Promote/improve school wide academic success
/ Outcomes must demonstrate:
  • Improved performance in reading & math
/ Measures that indicatesuccess must include:
  • (x) % of students identified as at-risk will demonstrate improvement in reading grades (K-3rd grades)
  • (x) % of students identified as at-risk will demonstrate improvement in reading & math grades (4-12th grades)
Measures that indicatesuccess (& optional) include:
  • (x) % of students identified as at-risk demonstrate improvement in reading and/or math level (measured by evidence based assessment tool)
For course performance, at-risk is defined as
  • Students not able to read at grade level by the end of third grade
  • Students failing English and/or math in 6th- 12th grades
  • Two or more failures in ninth grade courses (optional focus area)

Extra consideration for: Data tracking technology; working with middle/high school student populations; collaborations/partnerships with community resources that can help students and their families; plans for out-of-school time