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Curriculum & Instruction

Citywide Initiatives

We’re proud to be a leading partner in supporting New York City Public Schools’ initiatives for student success. Our deep collaborations with NYC Solves and NYC Science Core Curriculum demonstrate our commitment to supporting students, educators, and schools across the city.

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NYC Solves

Since September 2023, we have provided coaching and thought-partnership for teachers, school leaders, and district leaders as they work to roll out – Illustrative Mathematics® Algebra 1 curriculum citywide.

NYC Science Core Curriculum

Since 2016, we have worked with teachers in NYC to co-design engaging and user-friendly science materials for high school courses. These courses have been selected by NYC Public Schools as Core Curriculum and we support district and school-level stakeholders in effectively implementing them.

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Partnership with NYC Solves

All students deserve access to excellent math instruction. We are pleased to partner with NYC Solves to support teachers across the city shifting to a more student-centered, problem-based approach to teaching mathematics.

Curriculum-Based Instructional Coaching
As an IM Certified® Professional Learning Partner, we work with teachers and school leaders to understand the components of the Illustrative Mathematics® courses, prepare them to teach the materials, support implementation in the classroom, analyze data to inform instructional decisions, and reflect on student learning.

Collaboration and Learning with Partners
We work alongside partners providing coaching in other NYC districts as well as with the NYC Public Schools leadership team. We prioritize recognizing teachers’ perspectives and including these in decision-making about the initiative.

Year 0 Curriculum Selection and Adoption Support
We work with middle school and elementary school districts to engage in pre-implementation work to select district-wide curriculum. This work involves stakeholder engagement, collaborative problem-solving, piloting of units, and shared decision-making — all in service of successful math implementation.

IM Certified™ Professional Learning

Partnership with NYC Science Core Curriculum

New Visions is thrilled that our science courses, designed with and for NYC teachers, have been selected as Core Curriculum offerings for NYC Public Schools. Over 450 NYC high schools have selected to adopt New Visions Biology and Earth & Space Science curricula.

Proud to be an OpenSciEd-Certified Professional Learning Partner
We work with teachers and school leaders to understand the OpenSciEd Chemistry and Physics courses, teach the science with confidence, support classroom implementation, and use data and reflection to improve student learning.

OpenSciEd-Certified Partner

Resources and Collaborations

We are grateful to colleagues at Digital Promise, the Columbia Center for Public Research and Leadership, and Educators for Excellence for their partnership in developing resources to support this work.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has supported the development of New Visions Science curricula, the design of professional learning materials and certification programs, and the founding of our citywide steering committee.

Report:

Toward Sustainable Implementation of a Professional Learning Model for Storyline Curriculum Materials in High School Biology.

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High School Teachers’ Adaptations and Implementation of Open, NGSS-aligned Life Science Curriculum Materials.

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For questions about this work, please reach out to us!

curriculumteam@newvisions.org