Project ACHIEVE

Implementation Planning

Project ACHIEVE is an innovative school reform and school effectiveness program that has been implemented in schools and school districts across the country since 1990.  To date, one or more of its components have been presented to almost 1,500 schools in virtually every states—with the schools ranging from urban to suburban to rural, and from the lowest performing to the highest performing schools in the nation.

Nationally, Project ACHIEVE has been implemented in:

• Preschool, Head Start, and Early Childhood Programs
• Elementary Schools
• Middle Schools
• High Schools (especially relative to school climate and safety issues)
• Alternative Schools (all levels)
• Charter Schools and Facilities serving Special Needs Students
• After-School Programs

Project ACHIEVE’s ultimate goal is to help design and implement effective school and schooling processes to maximize the academic and social/ emotional/behavioral progress and achievement of all students.  Project ACHIEVE has also helped schools to implement effective and efficient problem-solving and strategic intervention processes for students with academic and behavioral difficulties, while improving the staff’s professional development and effective instruction interactions, and increasing the quality of parent (and community) involvement and engagement.  In all, Project ACHIEVE helps schools, communities, and families to develop, strengthen, reinforce, and solidify children and adolescents’ resilience, protective, and effective self-management skills such that they are more able to resist unhealthy and maladaptive behavior patterns.

For Consultation Support in this Area Contact Dr. Howard M. Knoff

If you are writing a grant that includes Project ACHIEVE activities, please click on the link below for a grant insert.

• Project ACHIEVE Grant Insert
  
• Project ACHIEVE Fact Sheet
  

Overview

Project ACHIEVE is an innovative school reform and school effectiveness program whose ultimate goal is to help design and implement effective school and schooling processes that maximize the academic and social/emotional/ behavioral progress and achievement of all students.  To accomplish this, Project ACHIEVE uses an evidence-based Implementation Blueprint that guides schools through a series of carefully sequenced steps over a three-year period.  While adapted to the needs and existing status of each school, the Implementation Blueprint, nonetheless, ensures the integrity of the Project ACHIEVE process so that all schools have the highest probability of success.

Applying to Become a Project ACHIEVE School:

School and districts that are interesting in becoming involved with Project ACHIEVE, or in implementing one or more of its components may contact Dr. Knoff directly.  Typically, all schools complete a Project ACHIEVE Application.  This consists of a School Profile Form—that provides your Project ACHIEVE trainer with some important background and demographic characteristics of your school, and a School Commitment Checklist.

For a Project ACHIEVE application, Click here

Project ACHIEVE's Electronic Books

Project ACHIEVE has a number of resources and a series of Electronic Books available to facilitate your Positive Behavioral Support, Response-to-Intervention, and other implementation activities.

Among our various resources are:

• The Stop & Think Social Skills Program for Schools
• The Stop & Think Social Skills Program for Parents
• The Preschool to Grade 1 Stop & Think Songbook-- a CD that teaches children 14 social skills through music
• The Stop & Think Social Skills posters for early childhood

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Our Electronic Books address:

• More Stop & Think Social Skills for Schools
• Developing and Implementing School-wide Positive Behavioral Support Systems
• Developing School-wide Student Behavior Accountability Systems
• Implementing an Effective Classroom Time-Out Process
• Response-to-Intervention

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