AT A GLANCE

Headquarters
New York, New York

Social Entrepreneur
Joel Rose, Co-founder and CEO, Chris Rush, Co-founder and Chief Program Officer

Year Founded
2011

Website
https://www.newclassrooms.org/

Mission:

New Classrooms empowers teachers to meet each student where they are through a personalized learning model. The first model called “Teach to One: Math” groups and re-groups students every day so they can engage in different instructional approaches. The model leverages sophisticated algorithms to provide rigorous, tailored learning experiences.

Vision: 

New Classrooms imagines a world where personalized learning is just the way students learn — a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and develops habits for lifelong success.

Approach:

Modalities: New Classrooms helps schools design warm and supportive learning environments that enable schools to group and regroup students into learning stations that best support the Modalities they will engage in that day. These spaces also enable both teachers and students to collaborate with one another.

Adaptive Personalized Curriculum: Teach to One: Math is designed to give students rigorous and engaging learning experiences each day tailored to their strengths and needs. An Adaptive Personalized Curriculum uses analytics from historical learner patterns, individual learner attributes, and lesson characteristics to decide what, when, where, and how students learn.

Daily Individualized Schedules: Each student receives a customized daily schedule based on his or her current learning strengths and needs, the classroom resources available, and the thousands of lessons included in the program. These unique student schedules then result in corresponding teacher schedules that give teachers the ability to access all the resources and information they need for the next day, review preliminary schedules before final publication, and substitute teacher-led lessons with their own lessons when they feel it is appropriate to do so.

Measuring Student Progress: Teachers have access to complete, real-time information on student progress through the Teacher Portal. Teachers may access their daily schedules and related lesson materials, along with a variety of resources that enable them to supplement, reinforce, and advance in-class learning.

Impact:

Students made annual academic gains that were equivalent to 1.5 times the national average—equivalent to half a year of additional learning.

English Language Learners and Special Education students accelerated their learning by 1.7 and 1.4 times the national average, respectively.