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Recent News
New Visions Charter High Schools Lottery Results
The lottery was held April 17th at Hostos Community College. Click here to look up your results. »
Notice of Public Meeting
New Visions Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science
New Visions Charter High School for the Humanities »Board of Trustees Meeting: May 21, 2012 at 8:30 a.m.
Location: New Visions for Public Schools (320 West 13th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY) »Learning to Teach
For more information on the Urban Teacher Residency, click here. »
2012 Charter Schools Wait List Application
Are you interested in attending a New Visions Charter High School? Learn more about the High School for the Humanities or the High School for Advanced Math and Science. Click here for an easy, online wait list application! »
Teach in a New Visions School
New Visions is looking for committed teachers with deep content knowledge who value a professional and innovative work environment that encourages growth and learning for both educator and student. »
Video: Learn About Our Urban Teacher Residency Program
For more information on the Urban Teacher Residency, click here. »
DTC & Lab
New Visions’ Digital Teacher Corps (DTC) and Lab, supported by the Ford Foundation, is a collaboration among educators, technologists, and designers to build innovative digital learning examples that illustrate how technology can be integrated to improve student engagement, motivation, and success. Teamed up with other experts, teachers can spark innovative ideas that can be prototyped and incubated into reality. »
A focus on small school success
According to the MDRC analysis of 105 newly created high schools—two-thirds of which are New Visions schools—the graduation rate was 6.8% higher than the other schools. This improvement alone had the dramatic impact of narrowing the graduation achievement gap found across the city between students of color and white students by nearly a third. »
Find a School
This interactive map provides basic information about each school in the New Visions network. »
Featured Resources
- New Visions Knowledgebase
The Knowledgebase offers free, downloadable curriculum resources, goal-setting tools, improvement strategies and more for principals and teachers at schools within New Visions’ network and beyond. VISIT THE KNOWLEDGEBASE »
- New Visions Schools Guide 2011-2012
October, 2011 - New Visions for Public Schools is thrilled to publish its Guide to Choosing a NYC High School, 2011-2012. This Guide to all of the schools in the New Visions network is a useful tool for students and parents as they embark on the high school selection process. DOWNLOAD PDF »
- Annual Report 2010
September 2011 - Our 2010 Annual Report, Focus on the Day, offers a glimpse in the day of the lives of some of the 41,000 students we serve. Our aim is to help each student reach his or her highest potential. DOWNLOAD PDF »
- Transforming the High School Experience
June 2010 - This report by MDRC, one of the nation’s most respected public policy research firms, provides overwhelming evidence that our New Century High School initiative has resulted in schools with higher attendance, credit accumulation and graduation rates. DOWNLOAD PDF »
- Student Progress to Graduation in NYC
June 2011 – This paper describes the core components of a new metric, designed by New Visions, that helps NYC public schools keep students on-track for meeting graduation requirements and identifies students at risk of falling off-track. DOWNLOAD PDF »
- Reframing Education: The Partnership Strategy and Public Schools
January 2006 - Drawing from a study of the New Century High Schools Initiative, this volume contains two papers on the community partnership strategy of the small schools movement: Partnership & Innovation: New Century High Schools in New York and Practicing Partnership: Lever for Reform in Public Schools. DOWNLOAD PDF »
- Policy Studies Associates 2005–06 Evaluation Report
October 2007 - Evaluation of New Century high schools in the fourth year; a profile of the initiative to create and sustain small, successful high schools (2005–2006). DOWNLOAD PDF »
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