A nagging question for many school and district leaders as well as others in charge of tracking student performance is “How do our kids perform compared to those in other schools?” Collecting and interpreting data to answer that question can …
Wonder how your school compares to schools that achieve better than average graduation rates for ethnically, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse youth? NYKids’ new self-assessment tool provides a sample of questions to help you identify areas for improvement and directs you …
While summer provides educators with opportunities for some well-deserved relaxation, it also offers opportunities to reflect and prepare for a new school year. On July 17th and 18th, educators from several school districts in the Capital Region did just that …
Summer vacation provides school leaders with a time to retool and reboot. The MiddleWeb offers Four Summer Strategies for School Leaders to make this a productive time. Though written specifically for middle school principals, the four strategies are useful for …
One out of every four schools in the U.S. is considered rural, and these schools serve nearly nine million students according to a report from the Rural School and Community Trust. Rural students have both higher overall graduation rates than …
“We tend to work with a culture of ‘We’re going to give you [students] respect and we’re going to expect it back, and we are going to have conversations with you [students] when we see that that’s not happening’, but …
NYKids hosted a small gathering of some of our advisory committee members to discuss new directions for NYKids in the upcoming academic year. Among the many planned activities, NYKids is gearing up to go back into the field to conduct …
In the 2018-19 school year, NYKids worked with Arongen and Montgomery C. Smith Elementary Schools on identifying and addressing improvement goals. COMPASS Institutes harness NYKids research on odds-beating schools in service of supporting improvement in other schools. This week NYKids …
A recent report by the Latino Educational Advocacy Directors (LEAD) Coalition calls attention to the distressing graduation rates of New York State’s English language learners (ELLs)[1]: in 2017, the four-year dropout rate for ELLs across the state was 30% while …
By Hal A. Lawson The 20th Century management guru, Peter Drucker, claimed that planning for a more desirable future starts with “a theory of planned abandonment.” He offered a question to launch it: If we hadn’t inherited it, would we …