{"id":497,"date":"2013-06-10T02:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-12-12T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T02:49:48","slug":"chancellor-walcott-and-speaker-quinn-announce-schools-selected-for-extended-learning-day-pilot-and-expansion-of-middle-school-quality-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2013\/06\/10\/497\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor Walcott and Speaker Quinn Announce Schools Selected For Extended Learning Day Pilot and Expansion of Middle School Quality Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

schools<\/a><\/p>\n

12,000 Additional Students Across 40 Schools Will Benefit From $6.2 Million Expansion
\n20 Schools Selected to Participate in an Innovative Model Combining Extended Day with Additional
\nReading & Tutoring
\nSchools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today
\nannounced the 40 middle schools that will now be a part of the Middle School Quality Initiative, 20
\nof which will be a part of the new pilot program that will use an innovative model to extend the
\nschool day and offer intense literacy training for high needs middle school students. Today,
\nprincipals from the selected schools will meet with Department of Education officials to learn about
\nthe programs. Chancellor Walcott and Speaker Quinn first announced the MSQI expansion and pilot
\nprogram at the Urban Institute of Mathematics in the Bronx and were joined by Council Members
\nJames Vacca, Andy King and Annabel Palma, DOE Chief Academic Officer Shael PolakowSuransky,
\nRobin Hood Foundation Chief Program Officer Michael Weinstein, the President of The
\nAfter School Corporation (TASC) Lucy Friedman and Harvard Ed Labs Chief Academic Officer
\nMeghan Howard.
\nBroken down by borough, the extended learning day pilot will be in six middle schools in the
\nBronx and Brooklyn, five in Queens and three in Manhattan. Overall, the MSQI expansion will be in
\n14 middle schools in the Bronx, 13 in Brooklyn, seven in Queens, five in Manhattan and one in
\nStaten Island. This expansion brings the total number of schools in the MSQI to 89.
\n\u201cWe are committed to ensuring that all students are prepared for college and 21st century
\ncareers, and the Middle School Quality Initiative has been central to this mission,\u201d said Schools
\nChancellor Dennis M. Walcott. \u201cWe are sharing best practices across our system of great schools
\nand are pleased that this program will expand to 89 schools this fall to benefit thousands of current
\nand future middle school students. I want to thank the New York City Council, Robin Hood, The
\nAfter School Corporation, and Harvard Ed Labs for their enormously generous support.\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019re proud to announce that beginning next September, all sixth graders in each of these
\n20 middle schools, for a total of 2,000 students – will experience 2.5 more hours of learning time per
\nday as part of our new pilot program,\u201d said Speaker Quinn. \u201cThis pilot is a part of the Council and
\nDOE\u2019s Middle School Quality Initiative, which has already shown promising results with both low
\nand high performing kids, and we are confident that a daily dose of extra tutoring for students
\nstruggling with English Language Arts will significantly increase students\u2019 ability to comprehend at
\ngrade-level across all subjects. I want to thank my Council colleagues, Robin Hood, The After
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\nSchool Corporation, Harvard Ed Labs, the Department of Education and members of the Middle
\nSchool Task Force for their continued dedication to improving New York City\u2019s schools.\u201d
\n\u201cMiddle schools are an integral and formative part of an adolescent\u2019s academic experience
\nwhere they come into their own and continue to gain the necessary skills for critical thinking and
\nsocial learning. Considering the heavy emphasis on testing during these transitional years of a young
\nadolescent\u2019s life, the extended hours of literacy will provide the much needed support for students to
\nmaster the skills and knowledge that will ensure their future success,\u201d said Council Member Robert
\nJackson, Chair of the Education Committee. \u201cI thank all the involved partners for contributing to
\nthe Middle School Quality Initiative with a comprehensive program that will continue to help at-risk
\nstudents stay on track of their educational goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

School Name Cohort Borough
\nJuan Morel Campos Secondary School MSQI +
\nPilot Brooklyn
\nM.S. 223 The Laboratory School of Finance and
\nTechnology
\nMSQI +
\nPilot Bronx
\nWaterside School for Leadership MSQI +
\nPilot Queens
\nPS\/IS 116 William C. Hughley MSQI +
\nPilot Queens
\nQueens United Middle School MSQI +
\nPilot Queens
\nEagle Academy for Young Men MSQI +
\nPilot Bronx
\nThe Highbridge Green School MSQI +
\nPilot Bronx
\nEast Flatbush Community Research School
\nMSQI +
\nPilot Brooklyn
\nP.S. 043 MSQI +
\nPilot Queens
\nJ.H.S. 143 Eleanor Roosevelt MSQI +
\nPilot Manhattan
\nSouth Bronx Academy for Applied Media MSQI +
\nPilot Bronx
\nI.S. 30 Mary White Ovington MSQI +
\nPilot Brooklyn
\nRenaissance School of the Arts MSQI +
\nPilot Manhattan
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\nThurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social
\nChange
\nMSQI +
\nPilot Manhattan
\nI.S. 340 MSQI +
\nPilot Brooklyn
\nAndries Hudde MSQI +
\nPilot Brooklyn
\nFrederick Douglass Academy V. Middle School MSQI +
\nPilot Bronx
\nP.S. 109 MSQI +
\nPilot Brooklyn
\nJ.H.S. 123 James M. Kieran MSQI +
\nPilot Bronx
\nVillage Academy MSQI +
\nPilot Queens
\nAcademy of Public Relations MSQI 3 Bronx
\nHunter’s Point Community Middle School MSQI 3 Queens
\nUrban Science Academy MSQI 3 Bronx
\nBrownsville Collaborative Middle School MSQI 3 Brooklyn
\nUrban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science,
\nThe MSQI 3 Bronx
\nJ.H.S. 050 John D. Wells MSQI 3 Brooklyn
\nDr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts MSQI 3 Brooklyn
\nP.S. 007 Samuel Stern MSQI 3 Manhattan
\nKappa V MSQI 3 Brooklyn
\nAccion Academy MSQI 3 Bronx
\nP.S. 157 Benjamin Franklin MSQI 3 Brooklyn
\nMiddle School 322 MSQI 3 Manhattan
\nP.S. 089 Bronx MSQI 3 Bronx
\nStaten Island School of Civic Leadership MSQI 3 Staten
\nIsland
\nI.S. 232 MSQI 3 Bronx
\nEast Fordham Academy for the Arts MSQI 3 Bronx
\nI.S. 238 Susan B Anthony MSQI 3 Queens
\nP.S. 20 P.O. George J. Werdan III MSQI 3 Bronx
\nM.S. 246 Walt Whitman MSQI 3 Brooklyn
\nJ.H.S. 014 Shell Bank MSQI 3 Brooklyn
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\nIn 2007, the City Council convened a task force that included academics, unions, the DOE,
\nparents, CBOs, and former principals to produce the Middle School Task Force Report. This report
\nwas adapted into the Blueprint for Middle School Success, which the DOE currently uses. The
\ncurrent Middle School Quality Initiative grew out of that work and is still overseen by the Task
\nForce. Introduced in 2011 with 18 schools, MSQI has deepened instruction in grades 6-8, and
\ncurrently works with 49 schools across the city. School leaders, teachers, and networks receive
\nprofessional development on Common Core-aligned literacy strategies and promising practices.
\nMSQI schools also receive targeted funding for literacy-focused training and instructional materials.
\nThis fall, 40 additional schools will take part in the initiative \u2013 bringing the total number of MSQI
\nparticipating schools to 89. By year three, the expansion will benefit approximately 12,000
\nadditional students.
\nMost significantly, the expansion of MSQI will provide the opportunity to develop a new
\nmodel for accelerating middle grade students\u2019 progress toward meeting Common Core literacy
\nstandards. Through a partnership with The After School Corporation (TASC) and the Education
\nInnovation Laboratory at Harvard University (EdLabs), participating middle schools will be able to
\noffer their students an additional twelve hours per week of literacy-focused support embedded
\nwithin an engaging, high-interest extended learning day. This model could play an important role in
\nour City’s progress toward ensuring that all graduating 8th graders leave middle school securely on
\nthe pathway to college and career success.
\nMSQI\u2019s expansion next year is made possible through $4.65 million in grants provided by
\nRobin Hood and the New York City Council, with the help of other funders. The New York
\nDepartment of Education is also contributing $1.55 million dollars to the expansion.
\nThis year alone, MSQI facilitated over 78 days of professional development and supported
\nmore than 400 educators. The initial results of the program are promising \u2013 and for the students who
\nneed it most: On nationally-normed assessments of reading comprehension, students who attend
\nschools participating in MSQI are on track to exceed the average annual growth of middle school
\nstudents nationwide. Further, evidence shows that students who severely struggled with reading
\ndemonstrated 1.5 grade levels of progress between February and June of 2012. These severely atrisk
\nstudents reaped the greatest gains due to MSQI efforts, substantially exceeding the annual
\nbenchmarks set for their peers nationwide.
\nOf the 40-school MSQI expansion, 20 of those schools will participate in TASC\/EdLabs\u2019
\ninnovative learning model. TASC will work with community-based organizations across the city to
\noffer students high-dosage reading tutoring and an array of learning activities aligned with students\u2019
\ninterests and affinities through an extended school day. An estimated 2,000 students per year over
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\nthe next three years will participate in this component of the program. EdLabs will work with the
\nDepartment to design the reading tutoring model, and will also evaluate the project and identify
\neffective practices that can be shared across middle schools citywide and beyond. The 20 schools,
\nwhich have not yet been identified, will be randomly selected from among a pool of applicants. The
\nprogram, like MSQI as a whole, will be targeted at middle schools across the City that serve highneeds
\nstudents.
\nBy the end of next school year, MSQI will have served approximately 27,000 students total.
\nThe Department hopes to build on the early success of the program and see even greater gains for
\nstudents participating in the new extended day and reading tutoring components of the program.
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\nContact: Erin Hughes \u2013 DOE (212) 374-5141
\n Justin Goodman \u2013 Council (212) 788-7121<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

schools<\/a><\/p>\n

12,000 Additional Students Across 40 Schools Will Benefit From $6.2 Million Expansion
\n20 Schools Selected to Participate in an Innovative Model Combining Extended Day with Additional
\nReading & Tutoring
\nSchools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today
\nannounced the 40 middle schools that will now be a part of the Middle School Quality Initiative, 20
\nof which will be a part of the new pilot program that will use an innovative model to extend the
\nschool day and offer intense literacy training for high needs middle school students.<\/p>\n

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