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SCORE has been validated for effectiveness by the United States Department of Education. As an Exemplary Program, it is available for replication, or "adoption," by schools throughout the nation.

To Adopt SCORE, you may attend a series of centralized workshops or invite a SCORE trainer to work on your site with your staff.

• Tell me how to sponsor a workshop on my site.
• Tell me about SCORE's upcoming workshops.
• I would like to bring the SCORE Program to my school, but I need to find the resources. Please allow me to download your Guidelines for Writing Proposals to Adopt SCORE.

How SCORE Works:

SCORE Trainers work with school teams to:

• design a custom program for accelerating the achievement of high-risk youth,
• train staff, and
• provide follow-through support with technical assistance and a complete set of materials, workbooks, and videotapes.

SCORE Students are heterogeneously grouped into a rich college core curriculum that leads to university eligibility by the time they graduate. Students receive support through:

• Placement in a SCORE class.
• Learning powerful study skills.
• Participating in tutorials.
• Setting personal goals aligned with their individual values.
• Receiving timely academic and career counseling.
• Utilizing appropriate support networks.

SCORE Programs are both curricular and co-curricular interventions. They include Guidance, Motivation, Academic Support, Study Skills, Parent Outreach, and Summer Acceleration Programs.

Step 1: School planning teams attend a 3-day SCORE Adoption training workshop that results in a personalized school-wide action plan for change.

Step 2: School planning teams begin the implementation of their plan. This includes identifying study skills teachers.

Step 3: All teachers who will be involved in the study skills program participate in a 2-day study skills workshop.

Step 4: SCORE is launched. SCORE staff provide technical assistance as needed. Process evaluations are conducted. The program is adapted based on the results of that evaluation.

Step 5. All teachers involved in the program participate in a one-day workshop on Crisis, Grief, and Loss.

Step 6. SCORE schools conduct a formal end-of-the-year evaluation and make programmatic changes based on that evaluation. The evaluation is submitted to SCORE central.

Step 7: SCORE sites indicate their readiness to host visitors to view the program and select key staff members to complete a "trainer of trainers" program.

Step 8: Local trainers are certified. These trainers can maintain the program on their site, inservicing new staff members as necessary.