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The Quality Review is a two- or three-day school visit by experienced educators to each New York City school. During the review, the external evaluator visits classrooms, talks with school leaders, and uses a rubric to evaluate how well the school is organized to educate its students.
The Quality Review was developed to assist New York City Department of Education schools in raising student achievement. The process is designed to look behind a school’s performance statistics to ensure that the school is engaged in effective methods of accelerating student learning. As a result, the Quality Review focuses on the coherence of a school’s systems, measuring how well it is organized to meet the needs of its students and adults, as well as monitor and improve its instructional and assessment practices.
Before a reviewer visits a school, the school leadership creates a self-evaluation based on the Quality Review rubric using this form. Reviewers draw upon this document and school data during conversations they have with principals, teachers, students, and parents during the school visit. Reviewers have these conversations to develop a well-rounded perspective of the way in which schools use information about outcomes to guide teaching, set goals for improvement, and make adjustments (e.g. to the curriculum, use of resources). Learn more about a site visit with a sample schedule.
QUALITY REVIEW SPRING 2011-12
QUALITY REVIEW 2012-2012 FINAL DOCUMENTS FOR SCHOOLSQuality Review Criteria RubricQuality Review Criteria Rubric (pdf) (word)Quality Review Criteria Rubric with colors indicating changes (pdf) (word) Quality Review Big Ideas DocumentThe Big Ideas document captures the essential components for each indicator and sub-indicator of the Quality Review RubricSchool Self-Evaluation FormThis form is completed by school leadership before the Quality Review. The form encourages school leadership to explain the way in which the school is organized to support student achievement teacher practice.Principal's Guide to the Quality ReviewThe principal’s guide serves as an overview of Quality Review process, describing the four stages of the QR in detail (pre-review work, school site visit, the QR report, and the verification and appeals process).Appeal Request FormAn editable, Word version of the Appeal Request Form found in the Principal's Guide to the Quality Review. Quality Review Sample ScheduleThese sample schedules for schools with less than 1500 students, 1500 students or more, and District 75 schools are suggestions for how the review may be organized. The principal and the reviewer will agree if this structure is mutually agreeable.
2011-2012 FINAL DOCUMENTS FOR REVIEWERSRecord Book Reviewers use this document to record their notes during the site visit.Report Template 2011-12 Quality Review report template.Summary Feedback Template This template helps frame provisional feedback for the principal at the end of the last day of the review.Classroom Visitation Tool This documents provides the reviewer an opportunity to record his or her low-inference observations during classroom visits.Reader Feedback Form Feedback form on report draftsReviewer Handbook This document that explains the Quality Review policies and procedures for reviewers.
FIND A SCHOOL'S QUALITY REVIEWFind a school’s Quality Review Find all Quality Review scores from 2005-2010
ALTERNATIVE QUALITY REVIEWSAlternative Quality Reviews refer to formative Quality Reviews that are not published and include Peer Quality Reviews, Developing Quality Reviews, and New School Quality Reviews.Educators can find more information about the Alternative Quality Review in ARIS Connect or by e-mailing altqreview@schools.nyc.gov.
DEVELOPING QUALITY REVIEW SUPPORT DOCUMENTS
Developing Quality Review Report Template This document is required to be used when writing up the report after completing the DQR. Developing Quality Review Record Book This document offers guidance, prompts, and note-taking space for use during the DQR.
PEER QUALITY REVIEW SUPPORT DOCUMENTSThe PQR Memo, Report Template and Record Book have been updated for the 2011-2012 school year.2011-2012 Peer Quality Review List The list of schools slated to receive Peer Quality Reviews this year. Peer Quality Review Memo This memo describes the process and expectations for the PQR. Peer Review Self Evaluation Form (PRSEF) This document is required to be used by host principals in preparation for the Peer Quality Review visit. It must be completed and sent to Network and Peer Quality Reviewers at least 7 days in advance of the scheduled visit.
Peer Quality Review Report Template This document is required to be used by Peer Quality Reviewers when writing up the report after completing both Peer Quality Review visits. Peer Quality Review Record Book This document offers guidance, prompts, and note-taking space for Network and Peer Quality Reviewers during the site visit to the peer school.
Schools in their first year of operation experience a “New School Quality Review” (NSQR), a 1-day review conducted by the school’s network team. During this review the school leadership and network team reviewer choose a minimum of five indicators on the Quality Review rubric on which to focus. The results of this review are shared with the school and the Division of Accountability and Achievement Resources only. Documents related to the NSQR are posted below.The NSQR Memo, Report Template and Record Book have been updated for the 2011-2012 school year.New School Quality Review MemoThis memo describes the policy on New School Quality Reviews.New School Quality Report TemplateThis template outlines the expectations for reporting after the NSQR.Record Book New SchoolsThis is the document that network team reviewers use to record their notes during the site visit to a new school.New School Self-Evaluation FormThis document is required to be used by principals in preparation for the NSQR.
GlossaryThis glossary will explain some of the key terminology used in the Quality Review Rubric.