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Challenge/Enrichment Intervention

Challenge/Enrichment Intervention

Challenge/Enrichment Intervention provides equitable access to accelerate students in grades 3-5 by engaging them in a more complex standards-aligned curriculum and instruction that allows for deeper levels of thinking and opportunities to apply their knowledge beyond grade level expectations. Waltham Public School’s Challenge/Enrichment Intervention follows the district’s comprehensive MTSS or multi-tiered support system, which offers targeted intervention to students at all academic levels on a continuum. Students have ample opportunities to practice and acquire interdisciplinary academic skills through a targeted tiered support system by aligning with the district’s diagnostic results in the fall, winter, and spring cycles. Students receive tier-2 support as they maintain demonstrating the need for this type of intervention. Multi-Tiered System of Support Blueprint

Progress-Monitoring Cycles

Progress Monitoring System

Fall
Students receive tier-2 Challenge/Enrichment Intervention based on grade-level academic evidence.

Winter
Students either continue or exit when they demonstrate not needing additional Challenge/Enrichment Intervention during the upcoming cycle.

Spring
Students may return to tier-2 Challenge/Enrichment Intervention during the following cycles as needed.

The Massachusetts standards-based curriculum used by Challenge/Enrichment Intervention is an inquiry-based, interdisciplinary, and student-centered system designed to help students explore topics at deeper levels of thinking while allowing them to grow both academically and socially. Students’ prior knowledge is activated as they use their critical thinking skills to discuss topics, take perspective, communicate, and work collaboratively and creatively. This system is built  upon mastery of the fundamental skills students learn in their current grade levels.