Calling All Techies! Apply to be an Edesign Lab Member!
Are you a teacher in the New York City area interested in designing cutting-edge learning experiences and integrating them in the classroom? Then EDesign lab is for you! What is EDesign Lab (formerly...
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New Report Re-examines Definition of “At-Risk”
Download the report Top of mind for teachers and principals, especially as the end of the school year approaches, are those 12th grade students at-risk of not graduating -- students who have failed...
View Article8 Wins from My First Few Weeks as a Teacher
On June 4th, 2012, 39 teachers set foot into the classroom for the very first time as part of the Urban Teacher Residency program (UTR). UTR is a 14-month teacher-training program that fully...
View ArticleMeet the Students of our 2011 Annual Report
Download our 2011 Annual Report What do Dominique, Sahib, Terrence, Jalisa, Guirny & Marlon all have in common? They're all students in New Visions schools. And they are the student profile...
View ArticleThe 2012 New Visions Guide to Choosing a New York City High School is Here!
Each year, over 100,000 8th grade students in New York City embark on an arduous journey to high school. The bridge to getting there: a complex, two-way matching system, pairing students with high...
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The Adjacent Possible, Or What an Education Researcher Learned from...
For the last 3 years I've been involved with fast-paced, on-the-ground educational research here at New Visions for Public Schools. We work with thousands of educators and tens of thousands of kids in...
View ArticleBrooklyn Girls Celebrate United Nations’ Day of the Girl
On an unseasonably warm October day, The Young Women’s Leadership School of Brooklyn (TYWLS) made history. The 320 students at the all-girls Brooklyn school were among the first to celebrate the...
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Teachers, Data and Dashboards: Why Principles of Adoption and Diffusion Matter
The Research Alliance for New York City Schools released a great new report on the NYC Department of Education's $80 million Achievement Reporting and Innovation System (ARIS). This is an incredibly...
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The Adjacent Possible, Part II: Designing an Early-Warning System for...
In a previous post, I described how taken I am with the idea of the adjacent possible, a concept first proposed in evolutionary biology that I think has applications elsewhere. At New Visions, our...
View ArticleQueens Students & Families Give Thanks In Spite of Hurricane Sandy
Students and their families at the Queens High School for Information Research & Technology (QIRT), out in Far Rockaway, haven’t had much to be happy about since Hurricane Sandy robbed many of...
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The Adjacent Possible, Part III: The Problem with Most Early-Warning Systems...
The adjacent possible is all about creating new forms out of previous, related forms. For the data team at New Visions, this translates into how do we expand and reframe our work developing an...
View ArticleLibrary closed for five years, reopens after renovation
Students on the Evander Childs High School campus in the Bronx don’t have to open a textbook to learn about history. They now have unparalleled online resources in their newly reopened library media...
View ArticleTeacher Collaboration: The Essential Common-Core Ingredient
We ask a lot of our teachers and, as a nation, we're about to ask a lot more. With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts and math in almost every state, we are...
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Systems Thinking 101: A New Way of Understanding Student Risk
In my last post, I raised the need to develop next-generation early-warning systems that better identify students "at-risk" in our schools. I also argue that to do so, we need to expand our...
View ArticleHigh School of World Cultures Represents U.S. in International Math and...
This December, sixteen year-old Christopher Velez will represent the United States in the Magna, an international math and science competition, against eight other countries. The grand prize: a...
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Guest blogger: Making Sense of a Senseless Killing
Safety in a free, democratic society can never be premised on the presence of armed security agents alone. If that's what it took to be safe our lives would be in greater peril than they are now....
View ArticleCheckmate! A Win for the South Bronx
Antonio Castelan, Matthew Jefferson, Tae Kim, Aleem Griffiths, Jonathan Hidalgo and Justus Williams. You may not recognize these names now but one day their fame may rival that of chess legend Bobby...
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The Problem of “Shifting the Burden” in Our School System
A core tenet of systems thinking is that: "Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets" (Dr. Paul Batalden). This is a pretty bold statement. For instance, if a high school graduates...
View ArticleThinking Outside of the Classroom: The Promise of Challenge-Based Learning
Like most teachers, Zach White Stellato has some students who have a hard time paying attention in class. But during their recent "Dangerous Intersections" presentations at New Visions Charter High...
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Thinking Outside of the Classroom, Part II: Lessons Learned
New Visions Charter High Schools network is in the process of reforming education. It's evident that traditional, teacher-directed high schooling does little to bridge the achievement gap or to...
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