Strategies: Paradise Unified School District

Academic interventions within PUSD have continued to evolve over the years. A variety of specific research-based interventions targeting reading, math, and writing across a continuum of grade levels are available. Interventions and learning strategies are reviewed at district-wide academic support team meetings to facilitate the implementation of effective interventions at each school site. The goal of academic interventions is to provide a “double dose” of instruction in addition to core curriculum classroom instruction.

Academic interventions are offered through a variety of means at different school sites. Instruction takes place in learning labs, small groups within the classroom or lab, and push-in classroom support with targeted students. These interventions often take place at grade-level intervention times, ensuring no child misses core classroom instruction, and allowing general education teachers to lead interventions.

Through grade-level collaboration meetings, students are flexibly shifted among interventions that address current student need. PUSD has eliminated an institutionalized “low group” by flexibly moving students to appropriate supplemental instruction in response to assessment data.