The New School Foundation builds partnerships with public schools serving low income families.  We invest in our partner schools because we believe that extraordinary outcomes are achieved when:

• The academic program is individualized and intentional, is supported by on-going professional development, and evolves in response to feedback from assessments and families
• Students and their families are known, engaged and supported
• Learning challenges are either prevented or they are identified quickly and mitigated through appropriate interventions
• Quality education begins early, including vi integrated pre-kindergarten in our partner schools

Vision

• Our vision is to create proven models for schools that:
• ensure the academic, social, emotional and physical success of each student
• are supported by private and public funding and an active community of parents, staff and educators
• are designed to be replicated.

• We believe in a holistic approach to each child’s development with attention to each child’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being.
• We foster student self-direction through an interactive learning environment that encourages children to develop, express and explore their own interests.
• We believe that a deliberate and comprehensive approach to integrating children’s social and emotional well-being can improve their academic success.
• We integrate the value of understanding cultures and serving others in our community and world.
• We support active engagement of families in their child’s education.
• We welcome our community’s expertise and resources in meeting student and family needs.
• We commit to a sustained, long-term dedication of resources to schools.
• We are accountable for mutually agreed-upon student outcomes, ongoing evaluations and consistent measures to ensure program benefits to children.