Preparing for Peer and Quality Review
Your CFN 107 Team has gathered some information you can use to assist in your preparation for the Quality or Peer Reviews.
Quality Review Overview
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). Click here for a sample site visit schedule.
After the site visit, schools receive a Quality Review score and report that is published on the DOE website. This document provides the school community with evidence based information about the school's development and serves as a source of feedback for the school leadership to improve the school’s support for student performance.
Quality Review Overview
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). Click here for a sample site visit schedule.
After the site visit, schools receive a Quality Review score and report that is published on the DOE website. This document provides the school community with evidence based information about the school's development and serves as a source of feedback for the school leadership to improve the school’s support for student performance.
Quality Review 2010-2011 Final Documents Quality Review Schedule 2010-2011 (updated 3/15/11)
This schedule includes all schools that qualify for a Quality Review.
Peer Review
The Peer Review list (updated 3/16/11) shows the schools that will undergo a Peer Review during the '10-11 school year by cluster and network. The Peer Review memo outlines the process and expectations. See the section below called "Peer Review Support Documents" for more information.
Power Point detailing changes to the Quality Review for 2010-11.
Quality Review Criteria Rubric:
Quality Review Criteria Rubric in small font (pdf) (word)
Quality Review Criteria Rubric in large font (pdf) (word)
Quality Review Criteria Rubric in small font with colors indicating changes (pdf) (word)
Quality Review Criteria Rubric in large font with colors indicating changes (pdf) (word)
Quality Review Scoring Guidelines
This document explains the process for calculating the overall Quality Review Score.
Quality Review Score Calculator
This is a tool to help understand how individual quality statement indicator scores lead to the overall score.
Quality Review Selection Criteria (updated 12/8/10)
This document explains the criteria qualifying schools for Quality Reviews.
Quality Review - Joint Intervention Teams (QR-JIT) Memo (updated 2/3/11)
The QR-JIT memo explains the eligibility and the process for schools undergoing a QR-JIT visit this fall. Schools identified by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) as Persistently Lowest Achieving (PLA) and subject to a Joint Intervention Team (JIT) visit are required to undergo a collaborative, NYSED/NYCDOE, QR-JIT Review. The QR-JIT will follow both City and State guidelines, and the alignment of these processes will limit the number of days of disruption to the school community.
Quality Review Big Ideas
This document provides a summary of the "big ideas" for each quality statement and indicator in the rubric.
School Self-Evaluation Form
This 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 (updated 10/7/10)
The principal’s guide is a great introduction to the Quality Review process and helps school prepare for their Quality Review.
Sample Site Visit Schedule
These 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
This document provides answers to frequently asked questions about the Quality Review and serves as a helpful introduction to the Quality Review process and protocols.
GlossaryThis glossary will explain some of the key terminology used in the Quality Review Rubric.
Documents for Reviewers
Record Book (pdf) (word)This is the document that reviewers use to record their notes during the site visit.
Reviewer Handbook (pdf) (word)This is the document that explains the Quality Review policies and procedures for reviewers.
Report Template
2010-11 Quality Review report template.
Annotated 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 Tools
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 drafts.
Peer Review Support Documents Peer Review Self Evaluation Form (PRSEF)
This document is required to be used by host principals in preparation for the Peer Review visit. It must be completed and sent to Network and Peer Reviewers at least 7 days in advance of the scheduled visit.
Peer Review Report Template
This document is required to be used by Peer Reviewers when writing up the report after completing both Peer Review visits. The report should be sent to the Quality Review team no later than June 15th, 2011.
Peer Review Record Book
This document offers guidance, prompts, and note-taking space for Network and Peer Reviewers during the site visit to the peer school.
Peer Review Preparation Workshop Powerpoint
This powerpoint is used in Cluster trainings of principals and network team members engaging in the Peer Reviews.
Peer Review Writing Workshop Powerpoint
This powerpoint is used in Cluster trainings of network team members conducting the Peer Reviews and writing up the subsequent reports.
Peer Review Writing: Crafting Effective Bullets
This handout offers guidelines for Peer Reviewers as you engage in writing strength and areas for improvement bullets.
Peer Review Writing: Graphic Organizer for Bullet Writing
This graphic organizer can help build strength and areas of improvement bullets for the Peer Review report.
Peer Review Writing: Choosing Bullets Handout
This handout has 3 sample Peer Review scoring scenarios to consider contradictions and practice choosing areas of strength and improvement.
New School Quality Review (NSQR) Support Documents New School Quality Review Memo (updated 2/9/11)
This memo describes the policy on New School Quality Reviews.
New School Quality Review Report (updated 2/25/11)
This template outlines the expectations for reporting after the NSQR.
Record Book New Schools (updated 2/25/11)
This is the document that network team reviewers use to record their notes during the site visit to a new school.
New School Self-Evaluation Form (updated 2/25/11)
This document is required to be used by principals in preparation for the NSQR.
- Find a School’s Quality Review Report
For Support and Training
Quality Review Cluster Training PowerPoint (added 10/12/10)
This PowerPoint is meant to be used by cluster teams as a training tool to prepare principals for their schools' Quality Review.
Student Goals Memo
This memo outlines the expectations of the Quality Review around setting student performance expectations for groups of students and targeted students that need specific supports
Scores from Previous Years
Quality Review Data 2005 - 2010
This document captures every Quality Review score given to a school since 2005 through 2010.
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