The R-CITY Project: A Collaborative Intervention With Teachers and Youth

University of Virginia

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Second Step + R-CITY; Behavioral: Second Step Only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05585918

SBS2232

Details and patient eligibility

About

"R-CITY" refers to the Collaborative Intervention with Teachers and Youth to practice and apply the 4 "Rs" of social skills in the classroom - Recognizing, Responding, Relationships, and Resilience. R-CITY is a collaborative teacher- and youth-focused prevention intervention that offers student lessons to accompany the Second Step curriculum. The lessons are designed to create safe and positive learning environments for all.

The R-CITY Project uses a school-level randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to test the integration of the Second Step program that the school district had been scaling up district wide with the R-CITY lessons. The purpose of the RCT is to determine the "value-added" of the Second Step program plus the new skill content compared to the Second Step alone in elementary and middle schools. Students in both conditions get access to the Second Step content, as an active control condition.

Full description

The study aims to test the R-CITY intervention in 27 elementary and middle schools. Specific aims are as follows: Aim 1 is to test the effects of the integrated R-CITY intervention on attitudes. Aim 2 is to test the effects of the integrated R-CITY intervention on classroom practices and teaching self-efficacy. Aim 3 is to test the effects of the integrated R-CITY intervention on student behaviors. Outcomes are assessed at pre-test in the fall and post-test in the spring, over the course of the school year.

Enrollment: 145 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- General education teachers of core subjects (Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, English/Language Arts).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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145 participants in 2 patient groups

Second Step Only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Second Step Only Condition supports include: * School wide support for implementation of Second Step curriculum (e.g., technical assistance professional development, facilitated professional learning communities) * Support to Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) and Multi Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) with alignment of initiatives * Individualized technical assistance with Second Step program implementation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Second Step Only

Second Step + R-CITY

Experimental group

Description:

Second Step + R-CITY supports include supports from the Second Step Only condition plus: * Training and implementation support for teachers to deliver 6 student lessons tailored to each grade level (4th and 5th for elementary schools; 6th - 8th for middle schools) and aligned with Second Step core content * Five 45-minute school-wide Professional Development (PD) sessions to complement the school district's PD * Individualized teacher coaching to support implementing teacher practices and classroom lessons

Treatment:

Behavioral: Second Step + R-CITY