NYKids identifies schools achieving above-predicted student outcomes considering demographics and other host community characteristics. Our team then designs studies to investigate what accounts for their outcomes. Our studies highlight promising practices related to leadership, curriculum and instruction, family engagement, special programming and extracurriculars, and many more. These approaches foster lasting student success. Click to explore our case studies, research reports, and presentations.
NYKids offers tools and direct school improvement workshops and institutes highlighting our unique COMPASS-AIM tool and COMPASS-AIM process for school-based improvement teams. COMPASS stands for Compare, Assess capacities and priorities, Select levers to improvement, and Set SMARTIE (SMART + Inclusive and Equitable) goals. AIM is an acronym capturing the continuous improvement process including Identifying, Initiating and monitoring. Click to learn more!
NYKids’ research team members and guest bloggers discuss hot topics in PK-12 education through blogs. Our blogs provide curated links to NYKids’ and other scholars’ research, and are great places to get “bite size” recommendations from the research to inform practical changes in PK-12 schools. Check out our Podcast and upcoming videos for deeper insight, strategies and practice tools to support positive change. We also have events and workshops for PK-12 schools. Check out this link for blogs.
NYKids’ unique Performance Tracker is your one-stop shop for tracking school performance. It is here that you can identify a school of interest and get easy to interpret data displays of the school’s performance in different content areas, by student subgroup, over time, and in comparison to your choice or the performance tracker’s chosen schools. You can spot trends and patterns in areas needing improvement. The tool also helps for clear insights. With this information, educators & families can be more informed. Click here to access the performance tracker tool.
