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. 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 1) identifying near and long-term Aims and actions, 2) Initiating an improvement plan, and 3) Monitoring progress. Click to explore our tools, testimonials, and submit a request for more information about our upcoming COMPASS-AIM workshops and institutes.
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 this link for blogs.
Track School Performance by Content Area, Subgroup, Over Time, and in Comparison to Selected Schools
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. Click here to access the performance tracker tool as well as the primer on how to use this powerful tool.
