SpringBoard is a comprehensive instructional program in English language arts and mathematics that reflects powerful, research-based understandings about how people learn. This report presents a model of learning based on cognitive science with particular attention to the role of memory and language. The instructional framework of strategic learning that follows from this model provides the basis for the SpringBoard program's incorporation of rigorous content and training in strategic activities and skills. Finally, the research base for the SpringBoard program is reviewed and summarized, first for the program overall and then for each set of strategies incorporated in the instructional design: reading, writing, oral proficiency, collaboration, and problem solving.