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Eighth-grader Dominique tion, divided equally between Pedraja, the principal. “We’re creating a Revolutionary War-era sister, a psychology major at Eleventh-grader Sahib future.” Hillcrest is preparing him A premed student, Sahib culture,” says Steve Duch, the the school community, includ- 2011 Annual Report Enthusiasm Luzuriaga loves learning English and Spanish and focused constantly assessing what they satirical cartoon in social studies CUNY. Imagining their shared Focus Shah matched his interests for success through rigorous explores classes in physiology, principal. “Every teacher is a ing Sahib’s Indian Sikh family. genetics and human anatomy. resource to help students be “I want to follow my passion to Dominique Luzuriaga about the blood flowing inside our on writing in all subjects — a key need to move ahead.” She adds or abridging a Journey song in future, Dominique says, “We’ll Sahib Shah & and strengths — math and sci- Advanced Placement classes. “These give me knowledge college-ready.” New Visions a good college,” says Sahib. & Amistad Dual bodies and how to heal fractured tenet of the new Common Core that New Visions is a vital partner band (she plays guitar). “You be independent and we’ll have Hillcrest High School ence — to potential careers and Its seven “small learning com- in my field and prepare me for staff works closely with Hillcrest Through college-level academ- Language School bones. She also loves technology. State Standards. “We emphasize in designing and implementing may think you’re learning to write our careers. Our family will say, found his ideal future: biomedi- munities” — schools within the And social studies. And band. high performance through literacy, assessment tools. only in English class, but you’re ‘Here’s our psychologist and cal engineering. By designing school — connect students to college,” he says. students and parents to complete ics and access to college, New “Basically, everything,” she says. making sure our students make Dominique develops her writ- learning it in all of them,” she here’s our doctor.’” imaging equipment and other the real world through curricula Hillcrest features street signs the Free Application for Federal Visions high schools help create Underscoring her learning at the jump from ‘learning to read’ ing skills all the time, whether says. Her dreams for the future health care solutions, he will in thematic content areas, from of prestigious colleges on every Student Aid, FAFSA, which is a future in which students — Amistad is dual-language instruc- to ‘reading to learn,’” says Miriam she’s writing a paper in science, involve following the lead of her “build machines that are our business/technology to premed, corridor. “New Visions helps especially vital to immigrant no matter their background — humanities and public service. us cultivate a college-going families who make up much of can achieve their dreams.

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Speaks Loves Only Helping Moving Spanish People Learns in Enters in English and Embraces Writing Joins After-School Supports Diverse Connects Fosters Kindergarten Spanish (Even in Band) Technology Team Hillcrest and Immigrant Learning to College- High School Students Real World Readiness

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Amistad Dual Offers Dual- Advances Provides Extended Language School Language Literacy Learning Time Enters in Loves Learning Thrives in Takes Three Poised to Program 9th Grade about Classmates’ Premed AP Classes Forward Advance in Cultures Curriculum Junior Year Attends a Top High School Biomedical Builds Engineering Lifesaving Program Machines NVPS Takes Regents in Middle School SS INWOOD • MANHATTAN JAMAICA • QUEENS Terrence Stephen, Jr. is no dream of becoming a derma- you’re smart and love if you’re recognition for its success in sees this firsthand, not only as a In her previous high school, She found support at every student to an advocate says Seth Schoenfeld, the prin- and tackle her assignments with “Everything in this school up-close portrait). The projects college, career and a 21st- course each trimester, which, The two know writing will help Drive stranger to high expecta- tologist and helping people like smart and involved,” he says. graduating black and Latino men, PTA-involved parent but also as Tenacity Jalisa Legree was one of Olympus Academy, one of counselor who provides one- cipal. Jalisa quickly became the greater confidence. Her favorite Mastery connects with everything,” had special resonance for both century economy. Guirny admits, at first seemed them in the future, from creating a group particularly at risk when it a college advisor who connects marvels 9th-grader Marlin Ramos. students, whose families are The schools embed writing in compelling college essays to Terrence Stephen, Jr. tions — from family, school and his younger sister, who suffers And involved he is: peer media- Jalisa Legree & 3,600 students and could not 12 transfer schools working on-one support. The curriculum school’s fastest credit-earner. “I subject? English and writing, Guirny Occean (left) & overwhelming. “But the way comes to college and career read- students to such resources as Recently, she and classmate Dominican. Through a project- every content area. “I’m really pursuing careers as a lawyer & Performing Arts himself. “Everyone depends on from eczema, Terrence has his tion, band, step, Young Men’s Olympus Academy get her teachers’ attention. Nor with New Visions that provide blends online and face-to-face set a date for myself,” she says. which she wants to use in her Marlin Ramos (right) they structure and break down Leadership Group. iness. The school works with key scholarship information, SAT Guirny Occean studied Domini- based curriculum, taught into recycling and the environ- (Guirny) and doctor or crime and Technology me,” says the 11th-grader, who eye on top colleges — Harvard, did she receive support from her much-needed academic and learning; students progress “Then I did what I had to do.” career as a lawyer or a journalist. & New Visions Charter the steps — write a hook, write Under the leadership of partners — including parents, the preparation and financial aid can dictator Rafael Trujillo through across content areas, New ment,” Marlin says. “But I never a body paragraph, use support- scene investigator (Marlin). High School maintains an A average and is on Columbia or Howard — and foster parents. She began failing emotional support to students through courses at their own She took full advantage of “I took life and its experiences High Schools the Honor Roll. “I’m the oldest takes advantage of every principal Reggie Richardson, city and New Visions — to keep forms. “PATHS students jump at classes. “I had no one to push severely behind on credits. Run pace. “In order to move on, teachers’ personal commitment and turned the negatives into the lens of social studies (govern- Visions charter schools aim thought I’d be learning about ing details — it’s quite possible,” brother of six, and I have to do my opportunity that will strengthen Performing Arts and Technology students on track for college. it,” he says. “It’s really a culture me,” she says. “Having people in partnership with the New York students must demonstrate to students. “Math is my worst positives.” She plans to attend a ment, policies and speeches), to engage students in deep carbon footprints through an he says. “When you complete best in everything.” Driven by his his candidacy. “Colleges like if High School (PATHS) has gained Terrence’s father (pictured below) of excellence.” on your side makes you want to Center for Interpersonal Devel- mastery, showing they’ve subject, but I sat at my teacher’s community college before trans- English (characteristics of and sustained learning that essay in math class!” Students it, it gives you great confidence. do better.” opment, a community-based learned and retained the skill desk every day to understand ferring to a four-year college. leadership) and art (creating an will better prepare them for write major essays in each You think you can do anything!” organization, Olympus assigns and content of the course,” the steps.” She’d go right home

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Becomes a Successful Moves Dermatologist from Florida No Support at Home Attends Lawyer Catholic Fighting Schools for Equality Begins a Career Carries Begins Focused High Family Failing on Writing Expectations Classes Drawn to College-Prep Attends a Four-Year Plans for Focus Focuses College (Top Choice: College in on Literacy University of Florida) Attends the Fall Enters in 9th Grade: Loves Chemistry, a Top Embraces Thrives with Graduates New Visions Charter Aims to Learn Named Enters in Drama and Father Pursues Advanced College Enters at Self-Paced Personal Is Leading February High School for the Skills for Maintains “Student of 10th Grade Trigonometry Joins PTA Regents Diploma Age 16 Learning Attention Credit-Earner 2012 Humanities Law Career 94 Average the Month”

PATHS Offers Rigorous, Builds Strong Parent Keeps Students Olympus Emphasizes Offers One-on- Has Students Rounded Curriculum Partnerships on Track for Academy Mastery One Support Set Weekly Enters in 9th Wins Maintains College Goals Grade: New Visions Speech-Writing 94 Average Charter High School Competition for Advanced Math and Science Becomes a Doctor Seeks a Good Knows Instant Access Values and Writes Great or Crime Scene High School Charters Are Practicing to Performance Celebrates College Essay Investigator Close to Home Rigorous to Excel Data Success MR EAST NEW YORK • BROOKLYN CANARSIE • BROOKLYN MARBLE HILL • BRONX Terrence Stephen, Jr. is no dream of becoming a derma- you’re smart and love if you’re recognition for its success in sees this firsthand, not only as a In her previous high school, She found support at every student to an advocate says Seth Schoenfeld, the prin- and tackle her assignments with “Everything in this school up-close portrait). The projects college, career and a 21st- course each trimester, which, The two know writing will help Drive stranger to high expecta- tologist and helping people like smart and involved,” he says. graduating black and Latino men, PTA-involved parent but also as Tenacity Jalisa Legree was one of Olympus Academy, one of counselor who provides one- cipal. Jalisa quickly became the greater confidence. Her favorite Mastery connects with everything,” had special resonance for both century economy. Guirny admits, at first seemed them in the future, from creating a group particularly at risk when it a college advisor who connects marvels 9th-grader Marlin Ramos. students, whose families are Terrence Stephen, Jr. tions — from family, school and his younger sister, who suffers And involved he is: peer media- Jalisa Legree & 3,600 students and could not 12 transfer schools working on-one support. The curriculum school’s fastest credit-earner. “I subject? English and writing, Guirny Occean (left) & The schools embed writing in overwhelming. “But the way compelling college essays to comes to college and career read- students to such resources as Recently, she and classmate Dominican. Through a project- & Performing Arts himself. “Everyone depends on from eczema, Terrence has his tion, band, step, Young Men’s Olympus Academy get her teachers’ attention. Nor with New Visions that provide blends online and face-to-face set a date for myself,” she says. which she wants to use in her Marlin Ramos (right) every content area. “I’m really they structure and break down pursuing careers as a lawyer Leadership Group. iness. The school works with key scholarship information, SAT Guirny Occean studied Domini- based curriculum, taught into recycling and the environ- and Technology me,” says the 11th-grader, who eye on top colleges — Harvard, did she receive support from her much-needed academic and learning; students progress “Then I did what I had to do.” career as a lawyer or a journalist. & New Visions Charter the steps — write a hook, write (Guirny) and doctor or crime Under the leadership of partners — including parents, the preparation and financial aid can dictator Rafael Trujillo through across content areas, New ment,” Marlin says. “But I never scene investigator (Marlin). High School maintains an A average and is on Columbia or Howard — and foster parents. She began failing emotional support to students through courses at their own She took full advantage of “I took life and its experiences High Schools a body paragraph, use support- the Honor Roll. “I’m the oldest takes advantage of every principal Reggie Richardson, city and New Visions — to keep forms. “PATHS students jump at classes. “I had no one to push severely behind on credits. Run pace. “In order to move on, teachers’ personal commitment and turned the negatives into the lens of social studies (govern- Visions charter schools aim thought I’d be learning about ing details — it’s quite possible,” brother of six, and I have to do my opportunity that will strengthen Performing Arts and Technology students on track for college. it,” he says. “It’s really a culture me,” she says. “Having people in partnership with the New York students must demonstrate to students. “Math is my worst positives.” She plans to attend a ment, policies and speeches), to engage students in deep carbon footprints through an he says. “When you complete best in everything.” Driven by his his candidacy. “Colleges like if High School (PATHS) has gained Terrence’s father (pictured below) of excellence.” on your side makes you want to Center for Interpersonal Devel- mastery, showing they’ve subject, but I sat at my teacher’s community college before trans- English (characteristics of and sustained learning that essay in math class!” Students it, it gives you great confidence. do better.” opment, a community-based learned and retained the skill desk every day to understand ferring to a four-year college. leadership) and art (creating an will better prepare them for write major essays in each You think you can do anything!” organization, Olympus assigns and content of the course,” the steps.” She’d go right home

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Dreams of Teaching

Enrolls in New Visions for Public Schools–Hunter Begins Receives Confident Continues to College Urban Teaching Constant Hired First-Year Question and Teacher Residency Immediately Support Full-Time Teacher Discover

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320 West 13th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212.645.5110 facebook.com/newvisionsforpublicschools Fax: 212.645.7409 @NewVisionsNYC www.newvisions.org BAY RIDGE • BROOKLYN Telecommunication’s year of teaching after a yearlong lesson plans and taking turns “The program allows you to In 2011, New Visions selected Each day brings a chance Experience principal Phil Weinberg apprenticeship in the classroom. teaching in front of the class. Early just do it — to fail and succeed Telecommunication to pilot a to move ahead for more than likens his first year of teaching, 27 The program emphasizes in the school year, Georganne Matthew Adelizzi with someone there to help you new hub for teacher learning, 40,000 young people who years ago, to how his grandfather mentored clinical learning and gently interjected when Matthew & High School of through it,” Georganne says. the “teaching hospital.” Phil attend New Visions schools. learned to swim: get thrown in the team-based collaboration, a needed guidance. Later, her Telecommunication Matthew quickly adds: “And to Weinberg praises the pipeline of Working with outstanding deep end and paddle for your life. benefit for career-changers interventions came less frequently teacher-leaders coming his way: Arts and Technology even know that failure or success principals, teachers and That doesn’t have to be the case like Matthew. and on Post-It notes. All along, is happening. My most valuable “The quality of your teacher community partners, we strive today. In 2011, thanks to the New Last year, Matthew and veteran she asked him strategic questions resource as a first-year teacher is matters for the rest of your life. to ensure that all students are Visions for Public Schools–Hunter teacher Georganne Karvunis that encouraged him to reflect on, that I’ve had a full year of experi- We are training new teachers to prepared for their future and College Urban Teacher Residency, (pictured below) team-taught articulate and develop his own ence with someone there to help hit the ground running.” ready for success in college, Matthew Adelizzi began his first 10th-grade English, co-developing teaching method and style. me process it.” in the workforce and in life.

Earns MA in English

Unfulfilled in Administrative Jobs

Dreams of Teaching

High School of Integrates Provides Piloting Develops Telecommunication Theory and Robust “Teaching Pipeline of Arts and Technology Practice Mentoring Hospital” Model Excellent Teachers

evaluation models that pro- especially for students who Board of Trustees Sue Lehmann Consultant With ambitious instruction, vide teachers and school enter high school with low Richard I. Beattie leaders with clear standards math and reading proficiency. Simpson, Thacher & Beth J. Lief A and actionable feedback. But with continued innova- Bartlett LLP, Chairman Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation strong leaders, effective And, working with Hunter tion and refinement of our Roger C. Altman A Message College and others, we are strategies, we know we can Evercore Partners, Inc., Ernest Logan Co-Chairman Council of Supervisors teachers, and parent and building a new model of succeed for more students. and Administrators teacher and school leader Thanks to our commit- Robert L. Hughes from the Board New Visions for Public Ellen Moskowitz hiring and induction, one that ted supporters, New Visions Schools, President The Brunswick Group pivots from an individual to schools are advancing community involvement, Reverend Dr. Calvin Michael Mulgrew Dear Friend, instruction, leadership and a team approach. today’s best practices to O. Butts, III United Federation How do we prepare all stu- human capital. Most important, we are deliver tomorrow’s promise. Abyssinian Baptist Church of Teachers public schools can transform dents, regardless of ethnicity, Across these systems, New seeing results. Preliminary With your continued sup- B Lisa Caputo Ralph L. Schlosstein family income or immigrant Visions is helping our schools evaluations of our teacher port, we will press ahead and The Travelers Companies, Inc. Evercore Partners, Inc. students’ lives and prepare status, to move forward in a incorporate the next genera- residency program demon- work to help more students Ian M. Cook Katherine J. Trager constantly changing world? tion of academic standards, strate the achievement gains gain the skills they need to Colgate Palmolive Company Random House, Inc.

How do we foster the skills the Common Core, into their made by the students taught transform their lives, their Blair W. Effron Randi Weingarten them for the road ahead. New they need to succeed in classrooms. Working with our by our residents. These communities and this city. Centerview Partners, LLC American Federation of Teachers college and in careers yet district school colleagues, students significantly out- Thank you for partnering with George Friedman to be imagined? How do we are launching a network performed their classmates us as we move forward. Jerry E. Garcia Honorary Visions for Public Schools is we prepare and support of charter high schools that on the Regents Compre- Board Members JP Morgan Private Bank educators for this new era? challenge students with a proj- hensive English and Living Gary L. Ginsberg Reuben Mark C At New Visions for Public ect-based curriculum, involving Environment exams. Time Warner Inc. J. Richard Munro committed to doing whatever Schools, we know that there tasks and assignments that Further evaluation by Richard Beattie Caroline Kennedy are no easy answers to the are relevant to their lives, their MDRC and commissioned Chairman Fund for Public Schools most difficult questions in communities and their future. by the Bill & Melinda Gates it takes to create and sustain Jay L. Kriegel education. That’s what makes We are pioneering the use Foundation continues to vali- The Related Companies LP our work so rewarding — of data to drive instruction, date that New Visions’ efforts more of these great schools and so essential. offering our schools powerful to create small schools have Roger Altman Public schools indeed tools that give leaders unprec- produced historic gains for Co-Chairman have the power to transform edented access to real-time some of New York City’s a child’s life. To radically information on student perfor- highest-need schools. We D for New York City’s highest- effect positive change, we mance. We are working with recognize that there is still must look at schools as a set our partners — the district and much work to be done Robert Hughes need students. of systems, encompassing the union — to pilot innovative to improve performance, President

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Total Revenue Merlin Foundation evaluation models that pro- especially for students who Board of Trustees Sue Lehmann standards emphasize devel- In our charter schools, we NEW VISIONS SCHOOLS: MOVING 9TH-GRADERS FORWARD: well-designed student assess- and reviewing writing assign- provides intensive support to to the Common Core and are GRADUATION RATES Moving Forward With ambitious instruction, vide teachers and school enter high school with low Consultant opment of higher-order skills, are building these standards CLASSES OF 2011–2014 ments. Through a teacher-inquiry ments, ensuring that students keep students on the college implemented transparently and Government (A) $4,831,855 Merrill Corporation, LLC Richard I. Beattie 75% As one of the few organizations literacy and integrated learning into the very organization of Percentage earning 11+ credits Percentage passing 1 or more regents process developed by New master the range of writing consistently. “I’m a big believer Bethany and Robert B. track, including extended learn- Corporations (B) $2,168,874 leaders with clear standards math and reading proficiency. Simpson, Thacher & Beth J. Lief to bridge the divide between Millard Bartlett LLP, Chairman Carroll and Milton across subject areas. the schools. In our pioneering 75% 75% Visions, teachers will work col- skills they need to communi- ing time, strict benchmarks and in consistency of expectations,” 73 A and actionable feedback. But with continued innova- 72 public district and charter high Foundations (C) $12,353,532 NBC Universal Petrie Foundation Teachers must change how teacher-residency program, we laboratively to design instruction cate effectively in college and rigorous college-level courses says principal Seth Lewis Levin. strong leaders, effective 70 70 schools, New Visions offers a And, working with Hunter tion and refinement of our Roger C. Altman 70 Individuals (D) $822,011 New York they teach in their classrooms, are developing a new genera- 69 that leads students to a deeper beyond. Students are expected in the upper grades. “We deliver those expectations 66 Evercore Partners, Inc., Ernest Logan new model for cooperation and Community Trust College and others, we are strategies, we know we can evaluate student work and tion of teachers fully immersed 70 70 understanding of the how and to practice daily, developing To keep students engaged over and over again, in several 65 Investment Returns (E) $2,991,131 A Message New Visions 67 collaboration to improve student Financial Our News Corporation Co-Chairman Council of Supervisors communicate with parents. The in the Common Core from the why of mathematics — and to questions for inquiry, engaging in their work, New Visions different ways, so the kids can 65 teachers, and parent and building a new model of succeed for more students. and Administrators achievement. We are rethink- Total Revenue $23,167,403 The PNC Financial Robert L. Hughes Common Core asks teachers start of their careers. 64 64 64 refine that instruction through in research, producing materials, charter high schools center articulate for themselves what’s Services Group teacher and school leader Thanks to our commit- 65 65 ing how to transform struggling New Visions for Public Ellen Moskowitz to engage in tougher assess- rigorous assessment. and presenting and defending on challenge-based projects expected of them.” from the Board in Action schools — driving forward a Information Total Expenses* Supporters The Prudential hiring and induction, one that ted supporters, New Visions Through District Schools Schools, President The Brunswick Group ments of student learning, more 61 their work. Instruction is person- that serve as an anchor for 60 Foundation Through Charter Preparing the 21st-Century team-based approach in which Program Services community involvement, pivots from an individual to schools are advancing writing across disciplines, math- New Visions encourages and alized, and intervention takes students and teachers across Max Rosenfeld Reverend Dr. Calvin Michael Mulgrew 60 60 teachers, teacher-leaders and School Development Teaching Workforce School Creation (F) $2,183,785 Foundation Dear Friend, instruction, leadership and a team approach. today’s best practices to O. Butts, III United Federation New Visions for Public Schools Visions supports a network of ematics that leads to abstract supports teams of teachers in place early and often. As with subject matter. Assessment STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Year ended June 30, 2011 Leaders $1 Million+ New York Life Foundation 55 principals incubate best prac- The Richard Salomon of Teachers designs, creates and sustains public district schools and also thinking and problem solving, developing instruction, evaluat- Distilling the lessons learned our district schools, New Visions and grading policies are tied Nearly 33 percent of New York School Support (G) $8,045,856 Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley How do we prepare all stu- human capital. Most important, we are deliver tomorrow’s promise. Abyssinian Baptist Church tices in a high-need school to Roger C. Altman and Jurate Kazickas Family Foundation public schools can transform great schools for New York City’s operates an emerging network and cross-disciplinary classes ing the impact of their efforts 55 55 from our work with district City teachers leave the profes- Teaching & Leadership The Annenberg Foundation Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP dents, regardless of ethnicity, Across these systems, New seeing results. Preliminary With your continued sup- help transform it into a place Philip Ruegger, III B Lisa Caputo Ralph L. Schlosstein 12.91% highest-need students. Since of charter high schools in under- that avoid siloing content in one and modifying teaching prac- 51 public schools, New Visions EDUCATING DIVERSE LEARNERS sion before completing their E Development (H) $4,696,640 Carnegie Corporation of New York The Tiger Foundation family income or immigrant Visions is helping our schools evaluations of our teacher port, we will press ahead and The Travelers Companies, Inc. Evercore Partners, Inc. Class Class Class Class Class where all students can succeed. A 20.86% The Simon Brothers 1989, New Visions has served resourced neighborhoods of New area. In our district schools, we tices based on their assessment founded its first two charter high third year — most citing a lack of ’07 of ’08 of ’09 of ’10 of ’11 Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation CITYWIDE NEW VISIONS CHARTERS And we are strengthening com- 3.55% Policy Research Blair and Cheryl Effron Family Foundation status, to move forward in a incorporate the next genera- residency program demon- work to help more students Class Class Class Class Class Class Class Class D Ian M. Cook Katherine J. Trager as a laboratory of innovation York City. We serve a student are piloting new strategies for of student growth. We believe schools as labs to define new of support and inadequate For all schools in New Visions PSO since & Innovation (I) $987,759 The Travelers Companies, Inc. students’ lives and prepare of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 munity investment in schools. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Stanley S. Shuman gain the skills they need to Colgate Palmolive Company Random House, Inc. English 2007–2008 School Year constantly changing world? tion of academic standards, strate the achievement gains within the city’s public schools, population that equals the size of helping teachers rethink how that this practice, teacher- practices that can advance all preparation for the challenges Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Benefactors $25,000–99,999 W. Clement & Jessie V. For all schools in New Visions PSO since 2008–2009 School Year Language New Visions charter schools Subtotal $15,914,040 How do we foster the skills the Common Core, into their made by the students taught transform their lives, their Randi Weingarten driving significant achievement the Seattle school system. they teach literacy and math. led inquiry, is the best way to students. As a charter manage- Learner they face. To confront this urgent Charitable Trust Stone Foundation Blair W. Effron are designed to work with the Supporting Services The Achelis & Bodman Foundations gains for tens of thousands of While maintaining our core translate higher standards into ment organization, New Visions need for well-prepared, skilled Teaching-hospital schools will B 9.36% The JPB Foundation Jerry I. Speyer they need to succeed in classrooms. Working with our by our residents. These communities and this city. Centerview Partners, LLC American Federation neighborhoods where they are Keith and Peggy Anderson them for the road ahead. New 15% 13% of Teachers students. We provide educa- values, we constantly evolve to EDUCATING STUDENTS IN NEED classrooms and departments district schools to improve the instruction around writing. For has full management authority teachers, New Visions in part- help develop a pipeline of highly Management Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Kendrick Wilson, III college and in careers yet district school colleagues, students significantly out- Thank you for partnering with located so that they become Family Foundation George Friedman tors with the tools and training meet urgent and emerging needs. Percentage of students qualifying and across schools. At Hillcrest rigor of instruction. Although example, teachers have tradi- over its charter high schools and nership with Hunter College has trained professionals, extend & General (J) $1,392,855 New York City Department and Ann Jackson community assets, preparing Richard I. and Diana L. Beattie to be imagined? How do we are launching a network performed their classmates us as we move forward. for free and reduced lunch of Education Honorary they need to analyze student We do this by: High School, for instance, teach- high school graduation rates tionally taught argumentative is free to innovate. created the Urban Teacher Resi- the inquiry-based and data- Fundraising (K) $687,099 Sponsors $5,000–24,999 Jerry E. Garcia students to succeed, thrive and George Friedman Visions for Public Schools is we prepare and support of charter high schools that on the Regents Compre- Board Members performance, diagnose prob- • supporting district schools CITYWIDE ers come together every day to in New York City have risen in writing in the context of English Our model is based on the dency. Linking extensive clinical driven practices of the residency The Carroll and Milton Petrie and Pam Bernstein JP Morgan Private Bank Subtotal $2,079,954 Anonymous give back as productive citizens 53.32% C Foundation educators for this new era? challenge students with a proj- hensive English and Living lems and design solutions to through intensive coaching and share and advance best prac- recent years, far too many high language arts. We’re working to notion that to prepare students experience in the classroom with model across grade-level and BlackRock Inc. John P. Arnhold Reuben Mark and change-agents. Char- Total Expenses $17,993,994 School of Education Hunter College Gary L. Ginsberg Special The Bok Family Foundation C At New Visions for Public ect-based curriculum, involving Environment exams. improve instruction. We partner next-generation instructional tices. “Historically, teachers have school graduates require reme- expand this practice to multiple to succeed in the global mar- content-rich professional devel- content-area teams, and, we of the City University of New York Bank of New York Time Warner Inc. Education ter school 9th-grader Guirny J. Richard Munro with teachers and school lead- models; been trained to follow the cur- diation upon enrolling in college. subjects, such as social studies, ketplace, schools must shift the opment, the residency prepares believe, create a successful Centerbridge Foundation Mellon committed to doing whatever Schools, we know that there tasks and assignments that Further evaluation by Richard Beattie Students Occean plans to give back to Net Assets United States Department Caroline Kennedy ers, parents and community • innovating around curriculum, 75% riculum, not to look at student Research shows that these science and math. To succeed at dynamic from one where stu- a new generation of teachers and replicable model of whole- of Education Coatue Foundation Barclays Bank are no easy answers to the are relevant to their lives, their MDRC and commissioned Chairman his community as a lawyer fight- 26.10% H 5.49% Beginning of Year $31,321,536 Fund for Public Schools organizations to provide ambi- pedagogy and practice in our outcomes as a factor in design- students have a diminished likeli- college-level reading and writing, dents receive information to one 14% 17% to assess and elevate student school reform. Ian M. Cook of New York ing for justice. “Maybe society I Partners $100,000–999,999 most difficult questions in communities and their future. by the Bill & Melinda Gates tious, rigorous instruction and to charter high schools; and ing subsequent lessons,” says hood of completing their studies. students must be exposed to where they find solutions using achievement. Program graduate and first- Change in Net Assets $5,173,409 The Frances L. & Edwin L. Judy and Howard it takes to create and sustain Jay L. Kriegel can never be 100 percent equal,” 7.74% Astor Fund for Berkowitz education. That’s what makes We are pioneering the use Foundation continues to vali- design curricula that are relevant • developing the human capacity principal Steve Duch. “But that New Visions recognizes the need complex nonfiction texts in their imagination coupled with In 2011, we expanded the year teacher Matthew Adelizzi J End of Year $36,494,945 Cummings Memorial Fund The Related Companies LP he says. “But I’ll do my best to Public School Libraries Andi and Tom to students’ lives and aligned to of our teachers, principals and kind of rethinking is what we’re to strengthen the high school addition to fiction and literature. their mastery of content and program’s capacity by piloting a brings the fruits of his ongoing Susan and Mark Dalton our work so rewarding — of data to drive instruction, date that New Visions’ efforts make it so.” 3.82% Booth Ferris Foundation Bernstein NEW VISIONS CHARTERS diploma to align it with career K * In accordance with generally accepted Kirsten Feldman and Hugh Frater and so essential. offering our schools powerful to create small schools have Roger Altman college and job skills. And we school staff. pushing them to do. Our goal New Visions was awarded skills. New Visions developed “teaching hospital” site, mod- learning into the classroom to Capital One Foundation Bloomberg more of these great schools accounting principles, New Visions records Mark Gallogly and Lise Strickler freely share best practices and is to have teachers think of the and college preparation for the a prestigious $12.9 million, its charter school curriculum Minority eled on the immersive clinical encourage students to think for contributions as revenue in the year in which Citi Foundation Meredith and Public schools indeed tools that give leaders unprec- produced historic gains for Co-Chairman Advancing Ambitious Instruction they are committed even if the funds are The Marc Haas Foundation lessons learned, to enable others three top-performing students in 21st century. five-year federal Investing in with this goal in mind — a goal Students education of our nation’s doc- themselves — a skill they will F 12.14% The Clark Foundation Tom Brokaw have the power to transform edented access to real-time some of New York City’s not received. Expenditures are recorded in Michael C. Huebsch in New York City and across the In 2011, New York adopted the each class and the three most- New Visions is working with Innovation (i3) grant to imple- that aligns propitiously with the 29% 39% tors. Our teaching-hospital need to move forward in college, the year in which they are incurred. For fiscal Joan Ganz Cooney Frank Brosens and for New York City’s highest- a child’s life. To radically information on student perfor- highest-need schools. We nation to raise student achieve- Common Core State Standards, struggling students, then look nearly two dozen schools to pilot ment Accessing Algebra Common Core. Black Black school commits to hiring a career and life. “I learn every day year ending June 30, 2009, New Visions and Peter G. Peterson William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Deenie Brosens D 81% incurred expenses, in excess of current year Foundation ment in schools at scale. a national effort to raise the bar at how they can differentiate the new initiatives in literacy and Through Inquiry (A2I), an inno- Writing is the capstone skill critical mass of Urban Teacher that it’s not about how brilliant 44.71% G Ford Foundation Orin S. Kramer and Hilary Ballon effect positive change, we mance. We are working with recognize that there is still revenue, that related to contributions made Brunswick Group LLC Because we believe answers and strengthen instruction so that lessons to support both.” math instruction. For the literacy vation that improves teachers’ in our charter schools. Every Residents, under the super- my ideas are,” he says. “When and recorded in previous fiscal years. Fund for Teachers Sue Lehmann must look at schools as a set our partners — the district and much work to be done Robert Hughes Hispanic Hispanic Ruth and David Levine Judy and Russell L. need students. to improving urban education students can succeed in college New Visions works with project, New Visions is working instruction in algebra and teacher, in every grade, shares 40% 57% vision of a veteran teacher the kids come up with the brilliant The William and Flora Hewlett Carson of systems, encompassing the union — to pilot innovative to improve performance, President Program services: 88.44% come in multiple forms, New and beyond. The evidence-based teacher teams across our with teachers to reconceptualize geometry through the use of in the responsibility of assigning working as a site director. ideas — that’s success.” Foundation Evelyn Gruss Lipper

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Total Revenue Merlin Foundation standards emphasize devel- In our charter schools, we NEW VISIONS SCHOOLS: MOVING 9TH-GRADERS FORWARD: well-designed student assess- and reviewing writing assign- provides intensive support to to the Common Core and are GRADUATION RATES Moving Forward opment of higher-order skills, are building these standards CLASSES OF 2011–2014 ments. Through a teacher-inquiry ments, ensuring that students keep students on the college implemented transparently and Government (A) $4,831,855 Merrill Corporation, LLC 75% As one of the few organizations literacy and integrated learning into the very organization of Percentage earning 11+ credits Percentage passing 1 or more regents process developed by New master the range of writing track, including extended learn- consistently. “I’m a big believer Bethany and Robert B. Corporations (B) $2,168,874 to bridge the divide between Millard across subject areas. the schools. In our pioneering 75% 75% Visions, teachers will work col- skills they need to communi- ing time, strict benchmarks and in consistency of expectations,” 73 72 public district and charter high Foundations (C) $12,353,532 Teachers must change how teacher-residency program, we laboratively to design instruction cate effectively in college and rigorous college-level courses says principal Seth Lewis Levin. NBC Universal 70 70 schools, New Visions offers a they teach in their classrooms, are developing a new genera- 70 that leads students to a deeper beyond. Students are expected in the upper grades. “We deliver those expectations Individuals (D) $822,011 New York 69 66 new model for cooperation and Community Trust evaluate student work and tion of teachers fully immersed 70 70 understanding of the how and to practice daily, developing To keep students engaged over and over again, in several 65 Investment Returns (E) $2,991,131 New Visions 67 collaboration to improve student Financial Our News Corporation communicate with parents. The in the Common Core from the why of mathematics — and to questions for inquiry, engaging in their work, New Visions different ways, so the kids can 65 achievement. We are rethink- Total Revenue $23,167,403 The PNC Financial Common Core asks teachers start of their careers. 64 64 64 refine that instruction through in research, producing materials, charter high schools center articulate for themselves what’s Services Group 65 65 ing how to transform struggling to engage in tougher assess- rigorous assessment. and presenting and defending on challenge-based projects expected of them.” in Action schools — driving forward a Information Total Expenses* Supporters The Prudential Through District Schools ments of student learning, more 61 their work. Instruction is person- that serve as an anchor for 60 Foundation Through Charter Preparing the 21st-Century team-based approach in which Program Services writing across disciplines, math- New Visions encourages and alized, and intervention takes students and teachers across Max Rosenfeld 60 60 teachers, teacher-leaders and School Development Teaching Workforce School Creation (F) $2,183,785 Foundation New Visions for Public Schools Visions supports a network of ematics that leads to abstract supports teams of teachers in place early and often. As with subject matter. Assessment STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Year ended June 30, 2011 Leaders $1 Million+ New York Life Foundation 55 principals incubate best prac- designs, creates and sustains public district schools and also thinking and problem solving, developing instruction, evaluat- Distilling the lessons learned our district schools, New Visions and grading policies are tied Nearly 33 percent of New York School Support (G) $8,045,856 Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley The Richard Salomon tices in a high-need school to Roger C. Altman and Jurate Kazickas Family Foundation great schools for New York City’s operates an emerging network and cross-disciplinary classes ing the impact of their efforts 55 55 from our work with district City teachers leave the profes- Teaching & Leadership The Annenberg Foundation Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP help transform it into a place 12.91% Philip Ruegger, III highest-need students. Since of charter high schools in under- that avoid siloing content in one and modifying teaching prac- public schools, New Visions EDUCATING DIVERSE LEARNERS sion before completing their E Development (H) $4,696,640 The Tiger Foundation 51 Class Class Class Class Class where all students can succeed. A 20.86% Carnegie Corporation of New York The Simon Brothers 1989, New Visions has served resourced neighborhoods of New area. In our district schools, we tices based on their assessment founded its first two charter high third year — most citing a lack of ’07 of ’08 of ’09 of ’10 of ’11 3.55% Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation CITYWIDE NEW VISIONS CHARTERS And we are strengthening com- D Policy Research Blair and Cheryl Effron Family Foundation as a laboratory of innovation York City. We serve a student are piloting new strategies for of student growth. We believe Class Class Class Class Class Class Class Class schools as labs to define new of support and inadequate For all schools in New Visions PSO since The Travelers Companies, Inc. of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 munity investment in schools. & Innovation (I) $987,759 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Stanley S. Shuman English 2007–2008 School Year within the city’s public schools, population that equals the size of helping teachers rethink how that this practice, teacher- practices that can advance all preparation for the challenges Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Benefactors $25,000–99,999 W. Clement & Jessie V. For all schools in New Visions PSO since 2008–2009 School Year Language New Visions charter schools Subtotal $15,914,040 driving significant achievement the Seattle school system. they teach literacy and math. led inquiry, is the best way to students. As a charter manage- Learner they face. To confront this urgent Charitable Trust Stone Foundation are designed to work with the Supporting Services The Achelis & Bodman Foundations gains for tens of thousands of While maintaining our core translate higher standards into ment organization, New Visions need for well-prepared, skilled Teaching-hospital schools will B 9.36% The JPB Foundation Jerry I. Speyer neighborhoods where they are Keith and Peggy Anderson students. We provide educa- values, we constantly evolve to classrooms and departments district schools to improve the instruction around writing. For has full management authority 15% 13% teachers, New Visions in part- help develop a pipeline of highly Management Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Kendrick Wilson, III EDUCATING STUDENTS IN NEED located so that they become Family Foundation tors with the tools and training meet urgent and emerging needs. Percentage of students qualifying and across schools. At Hillcrest rigor of instruction. Although example, teachers have tradi- over its charter high schools and nership with Hunter College has trained professionals, extend & General (J) $1,392,855 New York City Department and Ann Jackson community assets, preparing Richard I. and Diana L. Beattie for free and reduced lunch of Education they need to analyze student We do this by: High School, for instance, teach- high school graduation rates tionally taught argumentative is free to innovate. created the Urban Teacher Resi- the inquiry-based and data- Fundraising (K) $687,099 Sponsors $5,000–24,999 students to succeed, thrive and George Friedman The Carroll and Milton Petrie and Pam Bernstein performance, diagnose prob- • supporting district schools CITYWIDE ers come together every day to in New York City have risen in writing in the context of English Our model is based on the dency. Linking extensive clinical driven practices of the residency Subtotal $2,079,954 Anonymous give back as productive citizens 53.32% C Foundation lems and design solutions to through intensive coaching and share and advance best prac- recent years, far too many high language arts. We’re working to notion that to prepare students experience in the classroom with model across grade-level and BlackRock Inc. John P. Arnhold and change-agents. Char- Total Expenses $17,993,994 School of Education Hunter College Special The Bok Family Foundation improve instruction. We partner next-generation instructional tices. “Historically, teachers have school graduates require reme- expand this practice to multiple to succeed in the global mar- content-rich professional devel- content-area teams, and, we of the City University of New York Bank of New York Education ter school 9th-grader Guirny with teachers and school lead- models; been trained to follow the cur- diation upon enrolling in college. subjects, such as social studies, ketplace, schools must shift the opment, the residency prepares believe, create a successful Centerbridge Foundation Mellon Students Occean plans to give back to Net Assets United States Department ers, parents and community • innovating around curriculum, 75% riculum, not to look at student Research shows that these science and math. To succeed at dynamic from one where stu- a new generation of teachers and replicable model of whole- of Education Coatue Foundation Barclays Bank his community as a lawyer fight- 26.10% H 5.49% Beginning of Year $31,321,536 organizations to provide ambi- pedagogy and practice in our outcomes as a factor in design- students have a diminished likeli- college-level reading and writing, dents receive information to one 14% 17% to assess and elevate student school reform. Ian M. Cook of New York ing for justice. “Maybe society I Partners $100,000–999,999 tious, rigorous instruction and to charter high schools; and ing subsequent lessons,” says hood of completing their studies. students must be exposed to where they find solutions using achievement. Program graduate and first- Change in Net Assets $5,173,409 The Frances L. & Edwin L. Judy and Howard can never be 100 percent equal,” 7.74% Astor Fund for Berkowitz design curricula that are relevant • developing the human capacity principal Steve Duch. “But that New Visions recognizes the need complex nonfiction texts in their imagination coupled with In 2011, we expanded the year teacher Matthew Adelizzi J End of Year $36,494,945 Cummings Memorial Fund he says. “But I’ll do my best to Public School Libraries Andi and Tom to students’ lives and aligned to of our teachers, principals and kind of rethinking is what we’re to strengthen the high school addition to fiction and literature. their mastery of content and program’s capacity by piloting a brings the fruits of his ongoing Susan and Mark Dalton make it so.” 3.82% Booth Ferris Foundation Bernstein K * In accordance with generally accepted Kirsten Feldman and Hugh Frater college and job skills. And we school staff. NEW VISIONS CHARTERS pushing them to do. Our goal diploma to align it with career New Visions was awarded skills. New Visions developed “teaching hospital” site, mod- learning into the classroom to Capital One Foundation Bloomberg accounting principles, New Visions records Mark Gallogly and Lise Strickler freely share best practices and is to have teachers think of the and college preparation for the a prestigious $12.9 million, its charter school curriculum Minority eled on the immersive clinical encourage students to think for contributions as revenue in the year in which Citi Foundation Meredith and Advancing Ambitious Instruction they are committed even if the funds are The Marc Haas Foundation lessons learned, to enable others three top-performing students in 21st century. five-year federal Investing in with this goal in mind — a goal Students education of our nation’s doc- themselves — a skill they will F 12.14% The Clark Foundation Tom Brokaw not received. Expenditures are recorded in Michael C. Huebsch in New York City and across the In 2011, New York adopted the each class and the three most- New Visions is working with Innovation (i3) grant to imple- that aligns propitiously with the 29% 39% tors. Our teaching-hospital need to move forward in college, the year in which they are incurred. For fiscal Joan Ganz Cooney Frank Brosens and nation to raise student achieve- Common Core State Standards, struggling students, then look nearly two dozen schools to pilot ment Accessing Algebra Common Core. Black Black school commits to hiring a career and life. “I learn every day year ending June 30, 2009, New Visions and Peter G. Peterson William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Deenie Brosens 81% incurred expenses, in excess of current year Foundation ment in schools at scale. a national effort to raise the bar at how they can differentiate the new initiatives in literacy and Through Inquiry (A2I), an inno- Writing is the capstone skill critical mass of Urban Teacher that it’s not about how brilliant 44.71% G Ford Foundation Orin S. Kramer and Hilary Ballon revenue, that related to contributions made Brunswick Group LLC Because we believe answers and strengthen instruction so that lessons to support both.” math instruction. For the literacy vation that improves teachers’ in our charter schools. Every Residents, under the super- my ideas are,” he says. “When and recorded in previous fiscal years. Fund for Teachers Sue Lehmann Hispanic Hispanic Ruth and David Levine Judy and Russell L. to improving urban education students can succeed in college New Visions works with project, New Visions is working instruction in algebra and teacher, in every grade, shares 40% 57% vision of a veteran teacher the kids come up with the brilliant The William and Flora Hewlett Carson Program services: 88.44% come in multiple forms, New and beyond. The evidence-based teacher teams across our with teachers to reconceptualize geometry through the use of in the responsibility of assigning working as a site director. ideas — that’s success.” Foundation Evelyn Gruss Lipper

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Total Revenue Merlin Foundation standards emphasize devel- In our charter schools, we NEW VISIONS SCHOOLS: MOVING 9TH-GRADERS FORWARD: well-designed student assess- and reviewing writing assign- provides intensive support to to the Common Core and are GRADUATION RATES Moving Forward opment of higher-order skills, are building these standards CLASSES OF 2011–2014 ments. Through a teacher-inquiry ments, ensuring that students keep students on the college implemented transparently and Government (A) $4,831,855 Merrill Corporation, LLC 75% As one of the few organizations literacy and integrated learning into the very organization of Percentage earning 11+ credits Percentage passing 1 or more regents process developed by New master the range of writing track, including extended learn- consistently. “I’m a big believer Bethany and Robert B. Corporations (B) $2,168,874 to bridge the divide between Millard across subject areas. the schools. In our pioneering 75% 75% Visions, teachers will work col- skills they need to communi- ing time, strict benchmarks and in consistency of expectations,” 73 72 public district and charter high Foundations (C) $12,353,532 Teachers must change how teacher-residency program, we laboratively to design instruction cate effectively in college and rigorous college-level courses says principal Seth Lewis Levin. NBC Universal 70 70 schools, New Visions offers a they teach in their classrooms, are developing a new genera- 70 that leads students to a deeper beyond. Students are expected in the upper grades. “We deliver those expectations Individuals (D) $822,011 New York 69 66 new model for cooperation and Community Trust evaluate student work and tion of teachers fully immersed 70 70 understanding of the how and to practice daily, developing To keep students engaged over and over again, in several 65 Investment Returns (E) $2,991,131 New Visions 67 collaboration to improve student Financial Our News Corporation communicate with parents. The in the Common Core from the why of mathematics — and to questions for inquiry, engaging in their work, New Visions different ways, so the kids can 65 achievement. We are rethink- Total Revenue $23,167,403 The PNC Financial Common Core asks teachers start of their careers. 64 64 64 refine that instruction through in research, producing materials, charter high schools center articulate for themselves what’s Services Group 65 65 ing how to transform struggling to engage in tougher assess- rigorous assessment. and presenting and defending on challenge-based projects expected of them.” in Action schools — driving forward a Information Total Expenses* Supporters The Prudential Through District Schools ments of student learning, more 61 their work. Instruction is person- that serve as an anchor for 60 Foundation Through Charter Preparing the 21st-Century team-based approach in which Program Services writing across disciplines, math- New Visions encourages and alized, and intervention takes students and teachers across Max Rosenfeld 60 60 teachers, teacher-leaders and School Development Teaching Workforce School Creation (F) $2,183,785 Foundation New Visions for Public Schools Visions supports a network of ematics that leads to abstract supports teams of teachers in place early and often. As with subject matter. Assessment STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Year ended June 30, 2011 Leaders $1 Million+ New York Life Foundation 55 principals incubate best prac- designs, creates and sustains public district schools and also thinking and problem solving, developing instruction, evaluat- Distilling the lessons learned our district schools, New Visions and grading policies are tied Nearly 33 percent of New York School Support (G) $8,045,856 Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley The Richard Salomon tices in a high-need school to Roger C. Altman and Jurate Kazickas Family Foundation great schools for New York City’s operates an emerging network and cross-disciplinary classes ing the impact of their efforts 55 55 from our work with district City teachers leave the profes- Teaching & Leadership The Annenberg Foundation Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP help transform it into a place 12.91% Philip Ruegger, III highest-need students. Since of charter high schools in under- that avoid siloing content in one and modifying teaching prac- public schools, New Visions EDUCATING DIVERSE LEARNERS sion before completing their E Development (H) $4,696,640 The Tiger Foundation 51 Class Class Class Class Class where all students can succeed. A 20.86% Carnegie Corporation of New York The Simon Brothers 1989, New Visions has served resourced neighborhoods of New area. In our district schools, we tices based on their assessment founded its first two charter high third year — most citing a lack of ’07 of ’08 of ’09 of ’10 of ’11 3.55% Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation CITYWIDE NEW VISIONS CHARTERS And we are strengthening com- D Policy Research Blair and Cheryl Effron Family Foundation as a laboratory of innovation York City. We serve a student are piloting new strategies for of student growth. We believe Class Class Class Class Class Class Class Class schools as labs to define new of support and inadequate For schools in New Visions PSO since The Travelers Companies, Inc. of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 munity investment in schools. & Innovation (I) $987,759 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Stanley S. Shuman English 2007–2008 School Year within the city’s public schools, population that equals the size of helping teachers rethink how that this practice, teacher- practices that can advance all preparation for the challenges Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Benefactors $25,000–99,999 W. Clement & Jessie V. For all schools in New Visions PSO since 2008–2009 School Year Language New Visions charter schools Subtotal $15,914,040 driving significant achievement the Seattle school system. they teach literacy and math. led inquiry, is the best way to students. As a charter manage- Learner they face. To confront this urgent Charitable Trust Stone Foundation are designed to work with the Supporting Services The Achelis & Bodman Foundations gains for tens of thousands of While maintaining our core translate higher standards into ment organization, New Visions need for well-prepared, skilled Teaching-hospital schools will B 9.36% The JPB Foundation Jerry I. Speyer neighborhoods where they are Keith and Peggy Anderson students. We provide educa- values, we constantly evolve to classrooms and departments district schools to improve the instruction around writing. For has full management authority 15% 13% teachers, New Visions in part- help develop a pipeline of highly Management Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Kendrick Wilson, III EDUCATING STUDENTS IN NEED located so that they become Family Foundation tors with the tools and training meet urgent and emerging needs. Percentage of students qualifying and across schools. At Hillcrest rigor of instruction. Although example, teachers have tradi- over its charter high schools and nership with Hunter College has trained professionals, extend & General (J) $1,392,855 New York City Department and Ann Jackson community assets, preparing Richard I. and Diana L. Beattie for free and reduced lunch of Education they need to analyze student We do this by: High School, for instance, teach- high school graduation rates tionally taught argumentative is free to innovate. created the Urban Teacher Resi- the inquiry-based and data- Fundraising (K) $687,099 Sponsors $5,000–24,999 students to succeed, thrive and George Friedman The Carroll and Milton Petrie and Pam Bernstein performance, diagnose prob- • supporting district schools CITYWIDE ers come together every day to in New York City have risen in writing in the context of English Our model is based on the dency. Linking extensive clinical driven practices of the residency Subtotal $2,079,954 Anonymous give back as productive citizens 53.32% C Foundation lems and design solutions to through intensive coaching and share and advance best prac- recent years, far too many high language arts. We’re working to notion that to prepare students experience in the classroom with model across grade-level and BlackRock Inc. John P. Arnhold and change-agents. Char- Total Expenses $17,993,994 School of Education Hunter College Special The Bok Family Foundation improve instruction. We partner next-generation instructional tices. “Historically, teachers have school graduates require reme- expand this practice to multiple to succeed in the global mar- content-rich professional devel- content-area teams, and, we of the City University of New York Bank of New York Education ter school 9th-grader Guirny with teachers and school lead- models; been trained to follow the cur- diation upon enrolling in college. subjects, such as social studies, ketplace, schools must shift the opment, the residency prepares believe, create a successful Centerbridge Foundation Mellon Students Occean plans to give back to Net Assets United States Department ers, parents and community • innovating around curriculum, 75% riculum, not to look at student Research shows that these science and math. To succeed at dynamic from one where stu- a new generation of teachers and replicable model of whole- of Education Coatue Foundation Barclays Bank his community as a lawyer fight- 26.10% H 5.49% Beginning of Year $31,321,536 organizations to provide ambi- pedagogy and practice in our outcomes as a factor in design- students have a diminished likeli- college-level reading and writing, dents receive information to one 14% 17% to assess and elevate student school reform. Ian M. Cook of New York ing for justice. “Maybe society I Partners $100,000–999,999 tious, rigorous instruction and to charter high schools; and ing subsequent lessons,” says hood of completing their studies. students must be exposed to where they find solutions using achievement. Program graduate and first- Change in Net Assets $5,173,409 The Frances L. & Edwin L. Judy and Howard can never be 100 percent equal,” 7.74% Astor Fund for Berkowitz design curricula that are relevant • developing the human capacity principal Steve Duch. “But that New Visions recognizes the need complex nonfiction texts in their imagination coupled with In 2011, we expanded the year teacher Matthew Adelizzi J End of Year $36,494,945 Cummings Memorial Fund he says. “But I’ll do my best to Public School Libraries Andi and Tom to students’ lives and aligned to of our teachers, principals and kind of rethinking is what we’re to strengthen the high school addition to fiction and literature. their mastery of content and program’s capacity by piloting a brings the fruits of his ongoing Susan and Mark Dalton make it so.” 3.82% Booth Ferris Foundation Bernstein K *In accordance with generally accepted Kirsten Feldman and Hugh Frater college and job skills. And we school staff. NEW VISIONS CHARTERS pushing them to do. Our goal diploma to align it with career New Visions was awarded skills. New Visions developed “teaching hospital” site, mod- learning into the classroom to Capital One Foundation Bloomberg accounting principles, New Visions records Mark Gallogly and Lise Strickler freely share best practices and is to have teachers think of the and college preparation for the a prestigious $12.9 million, its charter school curriculum Minority eled on the immersive clinical encourage students to think for contributions as revenue in the year in which Citi Foundation Meredith and Advancing Ambitious Instruction they are committed even if the funds are The Marc Haas Foundation lessons learned, to enable others three top-performing students in 21st century. five-year federal Investing in with this goal in mind — a goal Students education of our nation’s doc- themselves — a skill they will F 12.14% The Clark Foundation Tom Brokaw not received. Expenditures are recorded in Michael C. Huebsch in New York City and across the In 2011, New York adopted the each class and the three most- New Visions is working with Innovation (i3) grant to imple- that aligns propitiously with the 29% 39% tors. Our teaching-hospital need to move forward in college, the year in which they are incurred. For fiscal Joan Ganz Cooney Frank Brosens and nation to raise student achieve- Common Core State Standards, struggling students, then look nearly two dozen schools to pilot ment Accessing Algebra Common Core. Black Black school commits to hiring a career and life. “I learn every day year ending June 30, 2009, New Visions and Peter G. Peterson William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Deenie Brosens 81% incurred expenses, in excess of current year Foundation ment in schools at scale. a national effort to raise the bar at how they can differentiate the new initiatives in literacy and Through Inquiry (A2I), an inno- Writing is the capstone skill critical mass of Urban Teacher that it’s not about how brilliant 44.71% G Ford Foundation Orin S. Kramer and Hilary Ballon revenue, that related to contributions made Brunswick Group LLC Because we believe answers and strengthen instruction so that lessons to support both.” math instruction. For the literacy vation that improves teachers’ in our charter schools. Every Residents, under the super- my ideas are,” he says. “When and recorded in previous fiscal years. Fund for Teachers Sue Lehmann Hispanic Hispanic Ruth and David Levine Judy and Russell L. to improving urban education students can succeed in college New Visions works with project, New Visions is working instruction in algebra and teacher, in every grade, shares 40% 57% vision of a veteran teacher the kids come up with the brilliant The William and Flora Hewlett Carson Program services: 88.44% come in multiple forms, New and beyond. The evidence-based teacher teams across our with teachers to reconceptualize geometry through the use of in the responsibility of assigning working as a site director. ideas — that’s success.” Foundation Evelyn Gruss Lipper

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2,15 Total Revenue Merlin Foundation Richard E. Cavanagh Vincent and Anne Mai Nina Beattie and Michael Eberstadt Steven Haber Joseph Perella Carole and Frank Lalli 32 Brooklyn School for standards emphasize devel- In our charter schools, we NEW VISIONS SCHOOLS: MOVING 9TH-GRADERS FORWARD: well-designed student assess- and reviewing writing assign- provides intensive support to to the Common Core and are GRADUATION RATES Moving Forward Friends $25–999 MANHATTAN QUEENS opment of higher-order skills, are building these standards CLASSES OF 2011–2014 ments. Through a teacher-inquiry ments, ensuring that students keep students on the college implemented transparently and Government (A) $4,831,855 Merrill Corporation, LLC Daniel H. Cohen Francois Maisonrouge Larry Berger Anne and Bill Harrison William Pitts Sean Lally Music and Theatre 6,11,12,18, As one of the few organizations Seymour and Shirley Abrahamson 52 21st Century Academy 67 Academy for Careers Percentage earning 11+ credits Percentage passing 1 or more regents 75% 21,22 literacy and integrated learning into the very organization of process developed by New master the range of writing track, including extended learn- consistently. “I’m a big believer Bethany and Robert B. Colgate-Palmolive Company MasterCard Worldwide Victoria B. Bjorklund Heidrick & Struggles Francis Porcelli Mr. and Mrs. M. Bernard Aidinoff Judith and Edward Landrigan 33 Bushwick Community in Television and Film 13 to bridge the divide between Corporations (B) $2,168,874 53 Amistad Dual Language School 53 73 Millard Andrea and Timothy Collins Eric and Stacey Mindich Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III Ben Heineman Anna Quindlen Elyse Beth Lemonda High School 8,17,23 across subject areas. the schools. In our pioneering 75% 75% Visions, teachers will work col- skills they need to communi- ing time, strict benchmarks and in consistency of expectations,” George and Pamela Ackert 68 Civic Leadership Academy 72 public district and charter high Foundations (C) $12,353,532 54 Bread & Roses Integrated A Teachers must change how teacher-residency program, we laboratively to design instruction cate effectively in college and rigorous college-level courses says principal Seth Lewis Levin. NBC Universal Continental Grain Foundation Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Dr. Pamela Cantor and Cristine Russell Random House, Inc. Sara Levinson 34 East Brooklyn Community THE BRONX 70 70 schools, New Visions offers a Joseph and Susan Armbrust Arts High School 69 East-West School of 56 70 Individuals (D) $822,011 New York Richard Cotton and Betsy Smith MRB Foundation Robert and Mary Capaldi Thomas P. Hirschfeld Rattner Family Foundation and Charles Hairston High School they teach in their classrooms, are developing a new genera- 69 that leads students to a deeper beyond. Students are expected in the upper grades. “We deliver those expectations 66 Susan Bartolone International Studies 20 new model for cooperation and Community Trust Joel and Gloria Hoffman Ruth MacDonald 55 Business of Sports School 4 14 5 evaluate student work and tion of teachers fully immersed 70 70 understanding of the how and to practice daily, developing To keep students engaged over and over again, in several 65 Investment Returns (E) $2,991,131 Council of School Navigant Consulting, Inc. Lisa Caputo Lisa Rhoads 35 FDNY High School for 52 16 New Visions 67 collaboration to improve student Financial Our News Corporation Barbara Becker New Visions 70 High School for Community Supervisors & Administrators William J. Janetschek Macy’s Foundation 9 communicate with parents. The in the Common Core from the why of mathematics — and to questions for inquiry, engaging in their work, New Visions different ways, so the kids can 65 Barry and Barbara Novick Fund Robert B. Catell Janine Richardson Fire and Life Safety 56 Community Health Academy Total Revenue $23,167,403 Bialkin Family Foundation Leadership 65 10,19 achievement. We are rethink- The PNC Financial Feroz and Erica Dewan Linda and Morton Janklow Matthew J. Mallow of the Heights 7 Common Core asks teachers start of their careers. 64 64 64 refine that instruction through in research, producing materials, charter high schools center articulate for themselves what’s Services Group Peter Orszag Ronald Chaluisan Gerard R. Roche Frederick M. Bohen 36 High School for Innovation 65 65 ing how to transform struggling and Ellen Chesler 71 Hillcrest High School 1 3 to engage in tougher assess- rigorous assessment. and presenting and defending on challenge-based projects expected of them.” Nano and Leslie J. Fabuss Susan and Alan Patricof Samuel and Beth Chapin Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. The Rocking Chair Foundation in Advertising and Media 57 Frank McCourt High School 64 in Action schools — driving forward a Information Total Expenses* Supporters The Prudential Louis Bradley Schools 54 Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Marks Through District Schools 61 60 Fallon Group, Inc. Jane and Charles Klein 72 John Adams High School ments of student learning, more their work. Instruction is person- that serve as an anchor for Foundation Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Keith Cocozza The Edward John and Patricia Joseph A. Califano, Jr. 37 High School for Public 58 Frederick Douglass Academy II Through Charter Preparing the 21st-Century team-based approach in which Program Services Margaret E. Miller writing across disciplines, math- New Visions encourages and alized, and intervention takes students and teachers across Max Rosenfeld Greg S. Feldman Wharton & Garrison LLP Ellen and Casey Cogut Jonathan A. Knee Rosenwald Foundation Service: Heroes of Tomorrow Secondary School 73 North Queens Community 58 66 60 60 teachers, teacher-leaders and Camille Calman School Development Teaching Workforce School Creation (F) $2,183,785 Foundation and Melanie Shorin Pepper Hamilton LLP James Kong George Sard National Basketball Association High School New Visions for Public Schools Visions supports a network of ematics that leads to abstract supports teams of teachers in place early and often. As with subject matter. Assessment STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES Year ended June 30, 2011 Leaders $1 Million+ New York Life Foundation Robert S. Cohen BRONX 17 Knowledge and Power 38 High School for Service 59 Manhattan Bridges 55 principals incubate best prac- Jason M. Fish Robert Carswell Patrick Naughton designs, creates and sustains developing instruction, evaluat- Distilling the lessons learned Nearly 33 percent of New York School Support (G) $8,045,856 Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley The Richard Salomon Michael and Vikki Price Robert Peter Connolly Charles E. Koob Martin E. Segal Preparatory Academy and Learning at Erasmus High School 74 Queens High School for public district schools and also thinking and problem solving, our district schools, New Visions and grading policies are tied Roger C. Altman and Jurate Kazickas Marianne and David S. Chao 1 Banana Kelly High School 57 tices in a high-need school to Family Foundation The Fishman Family Fund Frank and Kimba Richardson Jules and Lynn Kroll Edward Sopher Network Outsource, Inc. International High School Information, Research great schools for New York City’s operates an emerging network and cross-disciplinary classes ing the impact of their efforts 55 55 from our work with district City teachers leave the profes- Teaching & Leadership The Annenberg Foundation Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP James and Melinda Cotter Heriberto Chaves 39 High School for Youth and 60 Millennium High School MANHATTAN help transform it into a place 12.91% Philip Ruegger, III Emily and Harold Ford, Jr. George R. Roberts Theodore Kurz Robert and Lisa Spatt Matthew Nimetz 2 Bronx Academy of and Technology 69 highest-need students. Since of charter high schools in under- that avoid siloing content in one and modifying teaching prac- public schools, New Visions EDUCATING DIVERSE LEARNERS sion before completing their E Development (H) $4,696,640 The Tiger Foundation Paul C. Curnin 18 Marble Hill High School Community Development B 51 Class Class Class Class Class 20.86% Carnegie Corporation of New York Kinshasha Holman Conwill Health Careers 61 NYC iSchool 59 where all students can succeed. A The Simon Brothers General Atlantic Pam and Vince Pagano for International Studies 75 Voyages Preparatory 1989, New Visions has served tices based on their assessment founded its first two charter high third year — most citing a lack of ’07 of ’08 of ’09 of ’10 of ’11 Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn Richard S. Davis Richard and Gloria Kushel Dennis Stattman 40 High School of resourced neighborhoods of New area. In our district schools, we CITYWIDE NEW VISIONS CHARTERS 3.55% Policy Research Blair and Cheryl Effron Family Foundation Dhiya and Melinda El-Saden 62 Quest to Learn School And we are strengthening com- D Louis V. Gerstner RR Donnelley Woo and Alice Kwong Jane and James Stern Thomas Perrotta 3 Bronx Arena High School 55 67 as a laboratory of innovation York City. We serve a student are piloting new strategies for of student growth. We believe Class Class Class Class Class Class Class Class schools as labs to define new of support and inadequate For all schools in New Visions PSO since The Travelers Companies, Inc. Francois de Saint Phalle 19 Morris Academy for Telecommunication 76 Young Women’s Leadership The text of this Annual Report is set in the Helvetica Neue family (Adobe). Along with & Innovation (I) $987,759 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Stanley S. Shuman Jeanne Eng 68,75 • of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 of ’11 of ’12 of ’13 of ’14 munity investment in schools. Goldman Sachs Ann Marie Petach 4 Bronx Center for Science Collaborative Studies Arts and Technology 63 Shuang Wen School School, Queens within the city’s public schools, population that equals the size of helping teachers rethink how that this practice, teacher- practices that can advance all English preparation for the challenges 2007–2008 School Year James and Gretchen Rubin diDomenico+Partners Kathleen Lacey and James Hoge Lisa and Scott Stuart Language Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Benefactors $25,000–99,999 W. Clement & Jessie V. Arthur Foresta 73 For all schools in New Visions PSO since 2008–2009 School Year New Visions charter schools Subtotal $15,914,040 Bennett W. and Cindy R. Golub May and Samuel Rudin The Lauder Foundation Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Patricia and Brian Roe and Mathematics 64 Thurgood Marshall Academy for 62 driving significant achievement the Seattle school system. they teach literacy and math. led inquiry, is the best way to students. As a charter manage- Learner they face. To confront this urgent Charitable Trust Stone Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Earl Doppelt and Alina Alvarez 20 Mott Hall Bronx High School 41 International Arts are designed to work with the Supporting Services The Achelis & Bodman Foundations Stephen and Myrna Greenberg Family Foundation Mitchell S. Rosenthal 5 Bronx Community Business School Learning and Social Change STATEN ISLAND gains for tens of thousands of While maintaining our core translate higher standards into ment organization, New Visions need for well-prepared, skilled Teaching-hospital schools will B 9.36% The JPB Foundation Jerry I. Speyer Nancy and Bob Downey Jill S. Levy David and Peggy Tanner Dennis J. Friedman 21 New Visions Charter High School 70 neighborhoods where they are Keith and Peggy Anderson Philanthropic Fund Scully Peretsman Foundation Philanthropic Fund Paul N. Roth High School 26 15% 13% Ann S. and Thomas M. Lewyn for Advanced Math and Science 42 Khalil Gibran 65 Thurgood Marshall Academy 77 New Dorp High School 61 students. We provide educa- values, we constantly evolve to EDUCATING STUDENTS IN NEED classrooms and departments district schools to improve the instruction around writing. For has full management authority teachers, New Visions in part- help develop a pipeline of highly Management Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Family Foundation Kendrick Wilson, III Nancy and James Grosfeld Peggy and Millard F. Drexler Elizabeth A. Fuerstman 71 located so that they become and Ann Jackson Stephen and Kitty Sherrill Beth J. Lief and Michael H. Lisa Tepper William and Holly Russell 6 Bronx Engineering and International Academy Lower School tors with the tools and training meet urgent and emerging needs. Percentage of students qualifying and across schools. At Hillcrest rigor of instruction. Although example, teachers have tradi- over its charter high schools and nership with Hunter College has trained professionals, extend & General (J) $1,392,855 New York City Department Foundation Lewis M. Eisenberg and Daniel H. Weiner 22 New Visions Charter High 78 Port Richmond 63 51 community assets, preparing Richard I. and Diana L. Beattie for free and reduced lunch of Education William A. Shutzer Simonson Jeremiah L. Thomas, III GE Foundation Jennifer M. and William Rustum Technology Academy 66 Young Women’s Leadership they need to analyze student We do this by: High School, for instance, teach- high school graduation rates tionally taught argumentative is free to innovate. created the Urban Teacher Resi- the inquiry-based and data- Fundraising (K) $687,099 Sponsors $5,000–24,999 HBO David Faber School for the Humanities 43 Knowledge and Power High School students to succeed, thrive and George Friedman 60 76 The Carroll and Milton Petrie Peter J. Solomon Family Foundation The Malkin Fund Allen R. Thorpe Emanuel Genn Sheila Salmon 7 Bronx Haven High School Preparatory Academy VII School, Harlem 44 33 performance, diagnose prob- • supporting district schools CITYWIDE ers come together every day to in New York City have risen in writing in the context of English Our model is based on the dency. Linking extensive clinical driven practices of the residency and Pam Bernstein Anonymous Suzanne and Phillip C. Handal Robert W. Fairbairn 23 West Bronx Academy give back as productive citizens Subtotal $2,079,954 Foundation Sony Corporation of America Daniel Marsili and Meghan E. Mackay Katherine Scharlatt Middle School 53.32% C Ruth Genn 8 Bronx High School for Law and for the Future School list as of 5/2012 42 QUEENS lems and design solutions to through intensive coaching and share and advance best prac- recent years, far too many high language arts. We’re working to notion that to prepare students experience in the classroom with model across grade-level and BlackRock Inc. John P. Arnhold William and Judy Hiltz Concepcion S. and Irwin Federman Valerie Tootle 27 and change-agents. Char- Total Expenses $17,993,994 School of Education Hunter College The Betty J. Stebman Fund Stacy Martin and Ron Lattanzio Edward and Cindy Schnitzer 44 43 Special The Bok Family Foundation GlobalGiving Community Service Lyons Community School 31 25 improve instruction. We partner next-generation instructional tices. “Historically, teachers have school graduates require reme- expand this practice to multiple to succeed in the global mar- content-rich professional devel- content-area teams, and, we of the City University of New York Bank of New York Robert L. Hughes Thomas M. and Deborah D. Flexner The Twenty-First C Education ter school 9th-grader Guirny Joshua Steiner Columbia D. McCaleb Shari Shapiro BROOKLYN with teachers and school lead- models; been trained to follow the cur- diation upon enrolling in college. subjects, such as social studies, ketplace, schools must shift the opment, the residency prepares believe, create a successful Centerbridge Foundation Mellon Hutchins Family Foundation Thomas Fortin Century Foundation Donald Gordon 9 Bronx Latin 45 Millennium Brooklyn Students Net Assets United States Department and Antoinette Delruelle 48 72 Occean plans to give back to Eduardo G. Mestre Jaime and Philip Greenberg Richard Siklos High School 35,47,50 ers, parents and community • innovating around curriculum, 75% riculum, not to look at student Research shows that these science and math. To succeed at dynamic from one where stu- a new generation of teachers and replicable model of whole- of Education Coatue Foundation Barclays Bank Paul Tudor Jones, III Barry Friedberg & Charlotte Moss United Way 10 Bronx Leadership Academy II 24 Academy for Health Careers 45 24 his community as a lawyer fight- 26.10% H 5.49% Beginning of Year $31,321,536 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Audrey and Danny Meyer Lorie A. Slutsky organizations to provide ambi- pedagogy and practice in our outcomes as a factor in design- students have a diminished likeli- college-level reading and writing, dents receive information to one 14% 17% to assess and elevate student school reform. Ian M. Cook of New York JPMorgan Chase & Co. Family Foundation Robert and Donna Walsh Vartan and Clare Gregorian High School 46 Olympus Academy 30 ing for justice. “Maybe society I Partners $100,000–999,999 Tides Foundation 25 Academy of Innovative Technology Change in Net Assets $5,173,409 Judy and Howard Richard Friedman Talia Milgrom-Elcott Annette Hamilton SMF Foundation/JM Inc. 28,32 37,41 34 tious, rigorous instruction and to charter high schools; and ing subsequent lessons,” says hood of completing their studies. students must be exposed to where they find solutions using achievement. Program graduate and first- The Frances L. & Edwin L. Lewis and Ellen Kaden Ali Wambold 11 Bronx School of Law 47 Performing Arts and 46 can never be 100 percent equal,” 7.74% Astor Fund for Berkowitz Time Warner Inc. and Aaron Dorfman Stephen Spahn 26 Automotive High School design curricula that are relevant • developing the human capacity principal Steve Duch. “But that New Visions recognizes the need complex nonfiction texts in their imagination coupled with In 2011, we expanded the year teacher Matthew Adelizzi J End of Year $36,494,945 Cummings Memorial Fund Gershon Kekst Ms. Ellen Futter Alan H. Washkowitz Marisa Harford and Finance Technology High School Public School Libraries Andi and Tom Andrew H. & Ann R. Tisch Foundation Edward D. Miller 29 36 he says. “But I’ll do my best to Susan and Mark Dalton Jerry and Kathryn Garcia Anne and John Hermann Mitchell J. Speiser 27 Brooklyn Academy 38,39 to students’ lives and aligned to of our teachers, principals and kind of rethinking is what we’re to strengthen the high school addition to fiction and literature. their mastery of content and program’s capacity by piloting a brings the fruits of his ongoing Kekst & Company Inc. Mark Weidman 12 Bronx Theatre High School 48 South Brooklyn Community 49 make it so.” 3.82% Booth Ferris Foundation Bernstein Katherine J. Trager Ken Miller Marjorie and Michael Stern of Global Finance K * In accordance with generally accepted Kirsten Feldman and Hugh Frater Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Gary Hoenig High School 40 college and job skills. And we school staff. NEW VISIONS CHARTERS pushing them to do. Our goal diploma to align it with career New Visions was awarded skills. New Visions developed “teaching hospital” site, mod- learning into the classroom to Capital One Foundation Bloomberg Caroline Kennedy Trilantic Capital Partners Omar Morris Byron and Anita Wien 13 Collegiate Institute accounting principles, New Visions records Mark Gallogly and Lise Strickler Gary L. Ginsberg Madeline and Marc Holzer Stuart F. Sucherman 28 Brooklyn Academy of 78 BROOKLYN freely share best practices and is to have teachers think of the and college preparation for the a prestigious $12.9 million, its charter school curriculum eled on the immersive clinical encourage students to think for contributions as revenue in the year in which Carol and Jerome P. Kenney J. Ronald Wolfe for Math and Science 49 West Brooklyn Community Minority Citi Foundation Meredith and Barbara and John Vogelstein Ellen Moskowitz Nikki and Harold Tanner Science and the Environment Advancing Ambitious Instruction Students they are committed even if the funds are The Marc Haas Foundation Jane Gladstone and Patricia D. Yoder Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hughes High School lessons learned, to enable others three top-performing students in 21st century. five-year federal Investing in with this goal in mind — a goal education of our nation’s doc- themselves — a skill they will F 12.14% The Clark Foundation Tom Brokaw Jerome Kohlberg Whitton-Spector Foundation and Bruce Birenboim 14 East Bronx Academy not received. Expenditures are recorded in Michael C. Huebsch Robert L. and Abby R. Goldstein Elaine and James Wolfensohn Mark Katz Barbara Taveras 29 Brooklyn Bridge Academy in New York City and across the In 2011, New York adopted the each class and the three most- New Visions is working with Innovation (i3) grant to imple- that aligns propitiously with the 29% 39% tors. Our teaching-hospital need to move forward in college, the year in which they are incurred. For fiscal Frank Brosens and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. New York Life Giving Campaign for the Future 50 World Academy for Total Joan Ganz Cooney Sara Wols and Charles Hallac Jonathan Wainberg Black Black year ending June 30, 2009, New Visions William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Deenie Brosens Peter and Patricia Gordon Steven Wolitzer Phyllis and Harvey Klein 30 Brooklyn Democracy Community Health High School nation to raise student achieve- Common Core State Standards, struggling students, then look nearly two dozen schools to pilot ment Accessing Algebra Common Core. school commits to hiring a career and life. “I learn every day and Peter G. Peterson Robert Kravis and Kimberly Nippon Steel USA, Inc. 15 High School for 81% incurred expenses, in excess of current year Foundation Patrons $1,000–4,999 D 44.71% Orin S. Kramer and Hilary Ballon Kravis Foundation Shel and Judy Gordon Greg and Cay Woodson Gary Knell Carl Watson Academy 74 ment in schools at scale. a national effort to raise the bar at how they can differentiate the new initiatives in literacy and Through Inquiry (A2I), an inno- Writing is the capstone skill critical mass of Urban Teacher that it’s not about how brilliant G revenue, that related to contributions made Ford Foundation North Shore LIJ Health System Contemporary Arts 51 Young Women’s Leadership STATEN ISLAND Brunswick Group LLC Sandra Yark 31 Brooklyn Frontiers High School Because we believe answers and strengthen instruction so that lessons to support both.” math instruction. For the literacy vation that improves teachers’ in our charter schools. Every Residents, under the super- my ideas are,” he says. “When and recorded in previous fiscal years. Fund for Teachers Sue Lehmann Jay L. Kriegel and Kathryn McAuliffe Anne F. Ackerley Mindy and Jon Gray Nancy and Morris W. Offit Joseph Wright Martin and Rochelle Kopelowitz School, Brooklyn Hispanic Hispanic Judy and Russell L. 16 High School of World Cultures Ruth and David Levine Ralph Lauren Design Studio American Express Gift Stanley & Nancy Grossman David Ying Stephen J. Krass for Public Service: Heroes of to improving urban education students can succeed in college New Visions works with project, New Visions is working instruction in algebra and teacher, in every grade, shares 40% 57% vision of a veteran teacher the kids come up with the brilliant The William and Flora Hewlett Carson Patrick Olson Program services: 88.44% Matching Program Family Foundation Tomorrow come in multiple forms, New and beyond. The evidence-based teacher teams across our with teachers to reconceptualize geometry through the use of in the responsibility of assigning working as a site director. ideas — that’s success.” Foundation Evelyn Gruss Lipper Eugene Ludwig Parsons Family Foundation Concept/Design: Suka, NY / sukacreative.com; Photography: Philip Greenberg / www.philipgreenbergphoto.com / www.philipgreenbergphoto.com Photography: Philip Greenberg Concept/Design: Suka, NY / sukacreative.com; 77 City subway system. They have been helping commuters and visitors find their way since 1957. the world, including New York Helvetica, it has been used in transit systems around its predecessor,

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Sara Levinson 34 East Brooklyn Community THE BRONX Joseph and Susan Armbrust Arts High School 69 East-West School of 56 Richard Cotton and Betsy Smith MRB Foundation Robert and Mary Capaldi Thomas P. Hirschfeld Rattner Family Foundation and Charles Hairston High School Susan Bartolone International Studies 20 Joel and Gloria Hoffman Ruth MacDonald 55 Business of Sports School 4 14 5 Council of School Navigant Consulting, Inc. Lisa Caputo Lisa Rhoads 35 FDNY High School for 52 16 Barbara Becker New Visions 70 High School for Community 9 Supervisors & Administrators Barry and Barbara Novick Fund Robert B. Catell William J. Janetschek Janine Richardson Macy’s Foundation Fire and Life Safety 56 Community Health Academy Bialkin Family Foundation Leadership 65 of the Heights 7 10,19 Feroz and Erica Dewan Peter Orszag Ronald Chaluisan Linda and Morton Janklow Gerard R. Roche Matthew J. Mallow 36 High School for Innovation Frederick M. Bohen and Ellen Chesler 71 Hillcrest High School 3 Nano and Leslie J. Fabuss Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. in Advertising and Media 57 Frank McCourt High School 64 1 Susan and Alan Patricof Samuel and Beth Chapin The Rocking Chair Foundation Louis Bradley Schools 54 Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Marks 72 John Adams High School Fallon Group, Inc. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Keith Cocozza Jane and Charles Klein The Edward John and Patricia 37 High School for Public 58 Frederick Douglass Academy II Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Margaret E. Miller Greg S. Feldman Wharton & Garrison LLP Jonathan A. Knee Rosenwald Foundation Service: Heroes of Tomorrow Secondary School 73 North Queens Community Ellen and Casey Cogut Camille Calman 58 66 and Melanie Shorin National Basketball Association High School Pepper Hamilton LLP Robert S. Cohen James Kong George Sard BRONX 17 Knowledge and Power 38 High School for Service 59 Manhattan Bridges Jason M. Fish Robert Carswell Patrick Naughton Michael and Vikki Price Robert Peter Connolly Charles E. Koob Martin E. Segal Preparatory Academy and Learning at Erasmus High School 74 Queens High School for Marianne and David S. Chao 1 Banana Kelly High School 57 The Fishman Family Fund Network Outsource, Inc. International High School Information, Research Frank and Kimba Richardson James and Melinda Cotter Jules and Lynn Kroll Edward Sopher 39 High School for Youth and 60 Millennium High School MANHATTAN Emily and Harold Ford, Jr. Heriberto Chaves Matthew Nimetz 2 Bronx Academy of and Technology George R. Roberts Paul C. Curnin Theodore Kurz Robert and Lisa Spatt 18 Marble Hill High School Community Development 69 B Kinshasha Holman Conwill Health Careers 61 NYC iSchool 59 General Atlantic Pam and Vince Pagano for International Studies 75 Voyages Preparatory Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn Richard S. Davis Richard and Gloria Kushel Dennis Stattman 40 High School of Dhiya and Melinda El-Saden 62 Quest to Learn School Louis V. Gerstner RR Donnelley Woo and Alice Kwong Jane and James Stern Thomas Perrotta 3 Bronx Arena High School 55 67 Francois de Saint Phalle 19 Morris Academy for Telecommunication 76 Young Women’s Leadership The text of this Annual Report is set in the Helvetica Neue family (Adobe). Along with Jeanne Eng 68,75 • Goldman Sachs Ann Marie Petach Collaborative Studies Arts and Technology 63 Shuang Wen School James and Gretchen Rubin diDomenico+Partners Kathleen Lacey and James Hoge Lisa and Scott Stuart 4 Bronx Center for Science School, Queens Arthur Foresta 73 Bennett W. and Cindy R. Golub Patricia and Brian Roe and Mathematics 64 Thurgood Marshall Academy for May and Samuel Rudin Mr. and Mrs. Earl Doppelt The Lauder Foundation Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. and Alina Alvarez 20 Mott Hall Bronx High School 41 International Arts 62 Stephen and Myrna Greenberg Family Foundation Mitchell S. Rosenthal 5 Bronx Community Business School Learning and Social Change STATEN ISLAND Nancy and Bob Downey Jill S. Levy David and Peggy Tanner Dennis J. Friedman 21 New Visions Charter High School 70 Philanthropic Fund Scully Peretsman Foundation Philanthropic Fund Paul N. Roth High School 26 Ann S. and Thomas M. Lewyn for Advanced Math and Science 42 Khalil Gibran 65 Thurgood Marshall Academy 77 New Dorp High School 61 Nancy and James Grosfeld Peggy and Millard F. Drexler Elizabeth A. Fuerstman 71 Stephen and Kitty Sherrill Lisa Tepper William and Holly Russell 6 Bronx Engineering and International Academy Lower School Foundation Lewis M. Eisenberg Beth J. Lief and Michael H. and Daniel H. Weiner 22 New Visions Charter High 78 Port Richmond 63 51 William A. Shutzer Simonson Jeremiah L. Thomas, III Jennifer M. and William Rustum Technology Academy HBO David Faber GE Foundation School for the Humanities 43 Knowledge and Power 66 Young Women’s Leadership High School 60 76 Peter J. Solomon Family Foundation The Malkin Fund Allen R. Thorpe Sheila Salmon 7 Bronx Haven High School Preparatory Academy VII School, Harlem 44 Suzanne and Phillip C. Handal Robert W. Fairbairn Emanuel Genn 23 West Bronx Academy 33 Sony Corporation of America Daniel Marsili and Meghan E. Mackay Katherine Scharlatt Middle School Ruth Genn 8 Bronx High School for Law and for the Future School list as of 5/2012 42 QUEENS William and Judy Hiltz Concepcion S. and Irwin Federman Valerie Tootle 27 The Betty J. Stebman Fund Stacy Martin and Ron Lattanzio Edward and Cindy Schnitzer 44 Lyons Community School 43 Robert L. Hughes Thomas M. and Deborah D. Flexner GlobalGiving Community Service 31 25 Joshua Steiner Columbia D. McCaleb The Twenty-First Shari Shapiro C Donald Gordon 9 Bronx Latin BROOKLYN 45 Millennium Brooklyn Hutchins Family Foundation and Antoinette Delruelle Thomas Fortin Century Foundation 72 Eduardo G. Mestre Richard Siklos High School 48 35,47,50 Paul Tudor Jones, III Barry Friedberg & Charlotte Moss United Way Jaime and Philip Greenberg 10 Bronx Leadership Academy II 24 Academy for Health Careers 45 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Audrey and Danny Meyer Lorie A. Slutsky 24 Family Foundation Vartan and Clare Gregorian High School 46 Olympus Academy 30 JPMorgan Chase & Co. Tides Foundation Robert and Donna Walsh 25 Academy of Innovative Technology Richard Friedman Talia Milgrom-Elcott Annette Hamilton SMF Foundation/JM Inc. 28,32 37,41 34 Lewis and Ellen Kaden Ali Wambold 11 Bronx School of Law 47 Performing Arts and 46 Time Warner Inc. and Aaron Dorfman Stephen Spahn 26 Automotive High School Gershon Kekst Ms. Ellen Futter Alan H. Washkowitz Marisa Harford and Finance Technology High School Andrew H. & Ann R. Tisch Foundation Edward D. Miller 29 36 Jerry and Kathryn Garcia Anne and John Hermann Mitchell J. Speiser 27 Brooklyn Academy 38,39 Kekst & Company Inc. Mark Weidman 12 Bronx Theatre High School 48 South Brooklyn Community 49 Katherine J. Trager Ken Miller Marjorie and Michael Stern of Global Finance Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Gary Hoenig High School 40 Caroline Kennedy Trilantic Capital Partners Omar Morris Byron and Anita Wien 13 Collegiate Institute Stuart F. Sucherman 28 Brooklyn Academy of 78 BROOKLYN Carol and Jerome P. Kenney Gary L. Ginsberg J. Ronald Wolfe Madeline and Marc Holzer for Math and Science 49 West Brooklyn Community Barbara and John Vogelstein Ellen Moskowitz Nikki and Harold Tanner Science and the Environment Jane Gladstone and Patricia D. Yoder Dr. and Mrs. Richard Hughes High School Jerome Kohlberg and Bruce Birenboim 14 East Bronx Academy Whitton-Spector Foundation Barbara Taveras 29 Brooklyn Bridge Academy Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Robert L. and Abby R. Goldstein New York Life Giving Campaign Elaine and James Wolfensohn Mark Katz for the Future 50 World Academy for Total Sara Wols and Charles Hallac Jonathan Wainberg Peter and Patricia Gordon Steven Wolitzer Phyllis and Harvey Klein 30 Brooklyn Democracy Community Health High School Robert Kravis and Kimberly Nippon Steel USA, Inc. 15 High School for Patrons $1,000–4,999 Carl Watson Academy 74 D Kravis Foundation Shel and Judy Gordon North Shore LIJ Health System Greg and Cay Woodson Gary Knell Contemporary Arts 51 Young Women’s Leadership STATEN ISLAND Sandra Yark 31 Brooklyn Frontiers High School Jay L. Kriegel and Kathryn McAuliffe Anne F. Ackerley Mindy and Jon Gray Nancy and Morris W. Offit Joseph Wright Martin and Rochelle Kopelowitz School, Brooklyn 16 High School of World Cultures for Public Service: Heroes of Ralph Lauren Design Studio American Express Gift Stanley & Nancy Grossman Patrick Olson David Ying Stephen J. Krass Matching Program Family Foundation Tomorrow Eugene Ludwig Parsons Family Foundation Concept/Design: Suka, NY / sukacreative.com; Photography: Philip Greenberg / www.philipgreenbergphoto.com / www.philipgreenbergphoto.com Photography: Philip Greenberg Concept/Design: Suka, NY / sukacreative.com; 77 City subway system. They have been helping commuters and visitors find their way since 1957. the world, including New York Helvetica, it has been used in transit systems around its predecessor,

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