In the fall/winter of 2008-09, The New School Foundation contracted with educational evaluators, ECONorthwest, to perform an in-depth evaluation of the New School program. Their findings are very exciting! Specifically, they found that The New School has a very high effectiveness rate
ECONorthwest Summary of Program Evaluation
The Annual Program Review at The New School at South Shore is designed to achieve three goals:
1) Drive learning and improvement. Help the school assess its performance, measure its progress toward achieving its school vision, and receive information that will help the school community learn and make improvements.
2) Strengthen accountability. Help the foundation assess the effectiveness of its support for and investment in The New School at South Shore. The foundation seeks evidence through this process that the New School is achieving its grant objectives and is a healthy organization that continuously builds on its strengths and strives to eliminate its weaknesses.
3) Create new knowledge and tool. Produce an analytical framework and effective process that can be conducted on an annual basis. To meet the foundation's desire to showcase effective innovations that drive improved student performance, the created model/process should be adoptable by traditional school districts.
The Annual Program Review comprises three phases:
I. Internal Review: designed to help the school community (staff and parents) reflect on its performance and activities and identify areas of success and growth.
II. External Review: designed to leverage outside expertise and perspective by enabling the outside visit team to observe the school in action, help identify areas of success and growth, and offer feedback and suggestions for improvement to the school.
III. Follow up: process evaluation, inform subsequent year's planning and budgeting, use findings to assist with new staff induction.
As part of the Annual Review, parents and guardians are asked to complete a survey with their comments about The New School. Here are the summaries of recent surveys:
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