Using the data below, describe all intervention strategies employed by the school to improve the academic performance of students identified by the early warning system.

Apollo Middle School has many educational enrichment programs, mentoring, and engagement activities designed to improve attendance, behaviors, and academic performance for students identified by our early warning indicators. Apollo Middle School provide students with computer-based enrichment programs in Reading, Math,Science and ELA to improve student achievement on F.A.S.T exams.  For students needing remediation, we some of the following instructional support programs including, but are not limited to: iReady & performance matters. These programs are used on a daily basis as enrichment for students. iReady is used as an evaluation tool to monitor student progress and assessment scores. In addition, Saturday Success Academy, pullouts for core classes, and before/after school tutoring are provided in math, reading, science, and social studies for students requiring intervention. Apollo also provides several mentoring programs as interventions for struggling and at-risk according to the early warning indicators. Leadership members will conduct regularly scheduled instructional walkthroughs to ensure that effective instruction is being provided to all students and evidence based practices and programs are being implemented with fidelity.  Our Literacy Leadership team will meet regularly to disaggregate data from screeners, progress monitoring, and diagnostic reading assessments to make informed decisions about how to maximize student growth in reading. The primary mentoring and tutoring programs available to these students are Hispanic Unity for Teens, and Rites of Passage mentoring program.  Hispanic Unity 4Teens (U4T) is a year-round program for a middle school age youth. Hispanic Unity program provide parents with before and after school care for their children for free. These programs are designed to provide education and enrichment activities to help students attain academic and social success, reduce risk behaviors and learn skills so they may grow into self-sufficient, productive adults. Students are able to get homework assistance and tutoring in all the core subject areas. The LSW (Life Skills & Wellness) program will continue to be fully imbedded into interdisciplinary studies throughout students' curriculum for each grade level. To address chronically absent students, Apollo Middle offers enhanced elective courses, designed to drive student interest levels which will positively improve overall student attendance.  Apollo Middle will continue to offer Extended Learning Opportunities (ELOs) to address our non-proficient student achievement across all courses we offer, directly affecting increasing F.A.S.T achievement levels.  All programs provide hands on academic enrichment and support for our student's academic success.

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