All students are assessed every eight weeks in order to make new reading group and tutorial placements. A full-time facilitator is assigned to work with teachers to implement and monitor the program use. A Family Support Team is established to help support parents in ensuring the success of their children. The Team focuses on attendance, coordination of outside social services, parent involvement, and student behavior. A Building Advisory Committee is established to help shape program policy and guide program development.
Staff development is provided prior to and during the program.
Schools have a commitment to reducing special education referrals and reducing student retention, to making scheduling adjustments to accommodate grouping and tutoring activities, and to supplementing their libraries to address the needs of the reading curriculum. The Roots and Wings Program incorporates Success for All, and adds an integrated science, social studies, writing, and mathematics curriculum that provides daily opportunities for children to work together to solve simulated and real-life problems using the knowledge they have learned in class. The two major components of this curriculum are WorldLab and MathWings. In WorldLab , students engage in elaborate simulations to apply what they are learning in real contexts. The simulations draw from the entire content of grades 1-6 science and social studies, and integrate reading, writing, mathematics, and fine arts with that content.