Case Study: Successful Transition Education Program builds student confidence and reading growth with Discovery Education's Reading Plus

S.T.E.P. helps a student jump from below grade level to above grade level in 3 months with Discovery Education

The customer is the Successful Transition Education Program (S.t.e.p.), an alternative education campus in Texas serving juvenile justice-involved youth. Their challenge was engaging students with diverse learning needs and negative past school experiences, many with special education plans, to build essential reading skills and confidence.

The vendor Discovery Education implemented its Reading Plus solution, providing personalized, adaptive reading instruction. This allowed for differentiated learning, targeted skill gaps, and motivated students with its interactive format and an incentive program. One measurable result was a fifth-grade student advancing from below-grade-level to collegiate-level reading within a few years, with overall student engagement rising so much that students requested to use the program during free time.