Affinity School Improvement Network

New Visions supports our partner schools in developing and sustaining reliable practices and systems so that principals and their staff can focus on supporting their students.

Since 2006, New York City has driven innovation through a unique structure that leverages trusted non-profit organizations to serve as lead partners to networks of secondary schools within the traditional district. As an Affinity Organization, New Visions currently convenes and provides comprehensive support to 71 diverse public high schools across all five boroughs. This collaboration creates a vital innovation space within the large, traditional NYC public school district, driving impactful approaches to teaching and learning. This work has consistently generated student outcomes that outpace the rest of the city and impactful innovations that have scaled across the public school system.

By building networks for educators to collaborate and learn together, creating resources that are responsive to school and student needs, and providing powerful, effective tools that enable educators to focus on serving their students, New Visions creates the conditions for educators and their students to thrive.

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Program Features

Continuous Improvement Coaching

New Visions School Support provides principals and their teams with Continuous Improvement and Leadership Coaching to support them in examining and improving critical systems in their schools. 

Program Features

Strategic Data Check Ins (SDCs)

New Visions School Support coaches regularly engage school teams in conducting Strategic Data Check-ins. SDCs routinize student planning through the use of protocols, data and technology ensuring that every student is connected with the opportunities and supports that they need to thrive. 

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Results

We are making an impact

For two decades, this partnership structure has supported schools in improving high school and college outcomes for students. New Visions Affinity Schools serve a student population that mirrors the demographics of the NYC Public School system and consistently outperform city averages on key metrics.

“The support that New Visions provides doesn’t exist anywhere else: it’s about easily accessible resources, a supportive community, and prioritizing relevant data. At principals’ convenings and other events, New Visions allows educators to get together and support each other. The New Visions team shares my school’s core values: community, care, rigor, and relevance.”

– Amanda Hunter, NYC High School Principal

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