About Us
For over three decades, New Visions for Public Schools has played a central role in improving the quality of New York City public schools and removing barriers to the success of low-income students and students of color.
New Visions focuses on providing educators with the tools, resources, and support to build and continuously improve strong and responsive systems. These include major investments in student planning tools, free and high-quality curriculum, and innovative career & college preparatory programs.
Core Beliefs
We believe in the power of public schools.
We believe that our current public school system still too often reproduces rather than interrupts inequity.
We believe that addressing the challenges schools face means paying attention to how schools actually work.
We believe that improvement happens through consistent action over long periods of time - not through quick fixes.
We believe that explicitly calling attention to building strong organizational systems is key to sustained school improvement.
We believe that people working in schools need professional, high-quality tools and resources to effectively do their jobs.
We believe in being data-informed, and human-centered.
We believe that lasting change requires collaboration with students, families, and communities.
Our Approach
We design, create, and sustain great schools for New York City's highest need students. Since 1989, New Visions for Public Schools has served as a laboratory of innovation within the city's public schools, driving significant achievement gains for tens of thousands of students.
What We Do
We provide educators with the tools and training they need to analyze student performance, diagnose problems, and design solutions to improve instruction.
We partner with teachers and school leaders, parents and community organizations to provide ambitious, rigorous coaching and instruction, and to design curricula that are relevant to students' lives and aligned to college and job skills.
And we freely share best practices and lessons learned, to enable others in New York City and across the nation to raise student achievement in schools at scale.
