Conforming Positive Action Lessons to States' Academic Standards

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要/摘要：积极行动（PA）计划旨在预防药物滥用和暴力，并提高教学技能，学校领导/管理技能，学校组织，以及学生行为和学业成绩。尽管有强有力的证据证明其有效性并已建立良好，但PA仍面临着成为许多教育工作者首选计划的重大挑战。今天的教师面临着教授特定学术标准的压力科学、语言艺术、社会研究、数学这些都是他们核心课程的一部分。虽然PA课程教授学术标准，但并没有明确说明每节课。随后，由于他们面临的要求，教师可能会犹豫使用一个课程，其教训是不明确的学术性质。事实上，整个预防竞技场都面临着类似的困境。为了完全合法，预防计划需要与学术成就挂钩。PA计划处于独特的地位，有助于弥合预防和学术之间的差距，并为预防计划和内容学习之间的伙伴关系带来合法性。这个第一阶段SBIR的具体目标是符合7日和8日级PA课程内容的科学，语言艺术，社会研究核心课程标准（CCS）为加州，得克萨斯州，伊利诺伊州，夏威夷和犹他州。这些特定年级的PA课程需要最合法的教学，他们提出的挑战提供了一个很好的指导，在第二阶段完成K-12课程调整。这些标准将被纳入PA网站，允许教师使用密码访问/识别7年级和8年级PA课程如何与他们所在州的学术标准保持一致（反之亦然）。(PAI)将提供我们的标准顾问，弗雷德里克鲍尔弗先生和对齐实现，公司。(A2A)（2）A2 A将交叉引用7年级和8年级的课程主题与他们的国家标准数据库;（3）使用产生的国家标准数据库，派工作人员将输出7年级和8年级的课程记录，以纳入PA网站;及（4）教师会参与调查和焦点小组，以评估网站和标准的一致性。SBIR第一阶段项目将弥合预防与学术之间的差距，并为预防方案与内容学习之间的伙伴关系带来合法性。项目叙述：“不让一个孩子掉队”法案的出台，现在已经把学术标准带到了教育工作者思想的前沿，有时会损害其他项目，如预防。除非我们寻求通过将预防项目与内容学习联系起来来解决这个问题，否则预防项目将被降级到第二层地位，而有利于学术项目，可能导致药物滥用，停学，逃学，欺凌，威胁，打架和其他纪律问题的增加，这对我们国家的学校和青年来说是一个毁灭性的结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract: The Positive Action (PA) program is designed for substance abuse and violence prevention, and improves teaching skills, school leadership/administration skills, school organization, and both student behavior and academic achievement. Despite having strong evidence of effectiveness and being well established, PA faces a major challenge to become the program of choice for many educators. Teachers today are under pressure to teach the specific academic standards-science, language arts, social studies, mathematics-that are part of their core curriculum. Although PA lessons teach academic standards, they are not clearly stated for each lesson. Subsequently, because of the demands they face, teachers may be hesitant to use a program whose lessons are not explicitly academic in nature. Indeed, the entire arena of prevention faces a similar dilemma. In order to become fully legitimate, prevention programs need to link to academic achievement. The PA program is in a unique position to help bridge the gap between prevention and academics and bring legitimacy to a partnership between prevention programs and content learning. The specific goal of this Phase I SBIR is to conform 7th and 8th grade PA lesson content to science, language arts, and social studies core curriculum standards (CCS) for California, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii and Utah. The PA lessons for these particular grades need the most pedagogical legitimization, and the challenges they present offer an excellent guide for complete K-12 curriculum alignment in Phase II. The standards will be incorporated into the PA website, allowing teachers with a password to access/identify how 7th and 8th grade PA lessons align with their state's academic standards (or vice-versa).The planned tasks for this grant include: (1) Positive Action, Inc. (PAI) will provide our Standards Consultant, Mr. Frederick Balfour and Align To Achieve, Inc. (A2A), with 158 7th and 8th grade PA lessons for standards identification and cataloging; (2) A2A will cross-reference 7th and 8th grade lesson topics with their database of state standards; (3) using the resulting database of state standards, PAI staff will output the lesson-by-lesson records for 7th and 8th grade for incorporation into the PA website; and (4) teachers will participate in surveys and focus groups to evaluate the website and standards alignment. This SBIR Phase I project will bridge the gap between prevention and academics and bring legitimacy to a partnership between prevention programs and content learning. Project Narrative: The advent of the "No Child Left Behind" Act has now brought academic standards to the forefront of educator's minds, sometimes to the detriment of other programs such as prevention. Unless we seek to remedy this issue by linking prevention programs to content learning, prevention programs will be relegated to second-tier status in favor of academic programs, potentially leading to increases in substance abuse, suspensions, truancy, bullying, threats, fights and other disciplinary problems-a devastating outcome for our nation's schools and youth.