A Team-Based Leadership Intervention in New York City Schools: An Evaluation of the Targeted Intensive School Support Program
Daugherty, Lindsay; Schweig, Jonathan; Gates, Susan M. (2020). Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED604595
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examining82Schools, grades3-12
Department-funded evaluation
Review Details
Reviewed: May 2022
- Department-funded evaluation (findings for Targeted Intensive School Support Program (TISS))
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Meets WWC standards with reservations because it uses a cluster quasi-experimental design that provides evidence of effects on clusters by demonstrating that the analytic sample of individuals is representative of the clusters and satisfying the baseline equivalence requirement for the clusters in the analytic intervention and comparison groups.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Findings
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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New York City Regents Exam: Math |
Targeted Intensive School Support Program (TISS) vs. Business as usual |
0 Weeks |
Full sample;
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N/A |
N/A |
No |
-- |
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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New York City Regents Exam: English |
Targeted Intensive School Support Program (TISS) vs. Business as usual |
0 Weeks |
Full sample;
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N/A |
N/A |
No |
-- |
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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Principal Retention |
Targeted Intensive School Support Program (TISS) vs. Business as usual |
0 Weeks |
Full sample;
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N/A |
N/A |
No |
-- |
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Outcome measure |
Comparison | Period | Sample |
Intervention mean |
Comparison mean |
Significant? |
Improvement index |
Evidence tier |
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Absentee Rate |
Targeted Intensive School Support Program (TISS) vs. Business as usual |
0 Weeks |
Full sample;
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33.00 |
38.00 |
Yes |
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Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
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Race Black 34% Other or unknown 66% -
Ethnicity Hispanic 46% Not Hispanic or Latino 54%
Study Details
Setting
The study took place in New York City public schools from 2014 to 2019.
Study sample
The WWC calculated the aggregate demographics using data reported for the intervention and comparison groups separately. Across the 82 schools included in the analysis sample, 34% of students were Black, and race was not specified for the remaining students; 46% were Hispanic, 15% were English language learners, 21% were students with a disability and 78% met the New York State's criteria for being classified as a student living in poverty.
Intervention Group
The Targeted Intensive School Support Program (TISS) is a supportive coaching program offered to novice principals and assistant principals in New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) schools that have been identified as struggling and in need of comprehensive intervention. TISS is implemented in 28 elementary, middle, and high schools across the NYC DOE district. The program is designed to prepare a team of two like-minded leaders (or thought partners) and to provide the team with robust coaching support to accelerate the change process in these struggling schools. The TISS program supports these principals with additional and sustained coaching, team-based coaching, and specialized coaching according to needs. The program aims to improve student achievement in English Language Arts and mathematics.
Comparison Group
Schools in the comparison group had new, first-year principals that had completed a residency-based principal preparation program who had not participated in the intervention.
Support for implementation
Principals in TISS received access to TISS coaches and specialist coaches with expertise in budgeting, school data analysis, instruction, English language learners, students in special education, teacher evaluation, and scheduling and planning.
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