New Visions for Public Schools
For A Set Of Digital Tools To Assess Student Writing Assignments
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/22/2016
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Term48.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
New Visions for Public Schools works with a network of district and charter schools to ensure that New York City public school students, regardless of race or economic class, have access to a high-quality education that prepares them for the rigors of college and the workforce. New Visions will test whether a set of digital tools can help teachers create, distribute, and provide feedback on written assignments more efficiently and also test if that feedback improves student outcomes. This project seeks to increase understanding of how assessment informs improvements in practice, which is a key question regarding the scale of deeper learning.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newvisions.org
Address
320 W 13th St. Sixth Floor, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for identifying, cultivating, and showcasing exemplary schools to advance deeper learning
Over the past three years, the Program provided project support to the Deeper Learning Network (DLN), a "network of networks" consisting of ten school reform models totaling some 500 public schools across the country. The DLN has helped make the case for the viability of deeper learning, offering examples of it in action and providing locations for site visits by policymakers. We will provide "tie off" grants to the DLN in order to refocus our funding on research that addresses policy reform needs, development of new assessments of the harder-to-measure deeper learning competencies, and capacity building for educators to understand and make use of student achievement evidence.
for identifying, cultivating, and showcasing exemplary schools to advance deeper learning
This is one of ten grants to members of the Deeper Learning Network to showcase exemplary schools, nurture the deeper learning movement, prepare for school site visits by decision makers, and integrate Common Core standards into their curricula.
for the videoconferencing project
This videoconference grant to the New Visions for Public Schools will facilitate collaboration among the organizations in the Deeper Learning Network.
