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Announcing NYKids New Study of Persistent and Emergent Positive Outlier Schools Twentieth Year of NYKids Informing, Inspiring, and Improving New year, new logo, new study! NYKids is excited to announce that 2024 is our 20th year of […]

New research on agency: A report out from the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) by Kristen C. Wilcox The topic of agency is not new to the education field and for good reason. NYKids, for example, has found that over the almost 20 years […]

NYKids’ Top Five Blogs from 2023: Reflections and Launch of 2024 Study by Jessie Tobin & Lisa Graham-Donato The NYKids team wishes everyone a wonderful start to the new year! To gear up for the year ahead we are taking a trip […]

Clear and direct: Communication lessons schools learned from the COVID-19 pandemic By Adrienne Leon, APR, Director of Engagement & Development Services at Capital Region BOCES At 3 p.m. on March 12, 2020, a group of 24 school […]

Highlights from NYKids’ Conference Presentations, Part II: Educators’ Stress and Emotional Labor (and Why Promoting Collegiality is Key) By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox While NYKids Director Kristen C. Wilcox attended the UCEA convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, co-facilitating critical […]

The Five S’s of Continuous Improvement Taking Hold in Wynantskill: A Second in our Series of Updates from NYKids’ COMPASS Partners By Kristen C. Wilcox and Lisa Graham-Donato As the second in a series on NYKids’ partner schools’ improvement efforts, this week we are focusing on Wyn […]

Highlights from NYKids’ Conference Presentations on Leader-Researcher Collaboration By Kristen C. Wilcox We (Kristen and Aaron) were honored to have opportunities to represent NYKids and participate in two conferences between November 17th- […]

The Five S’s of Continuous Improvement: Updates form NYKids’ COMPASS Partner Oppenheim-Ephratah St. Johnsville (OESJ) by Kristen C. Wilcox, Meg Rooney, and Lisa Graham-Donato The growing body of research on what supports school improvement initiatives points to a few key […]

Collective Empathy, Shared Commitment, and Collegial Leadership: Findings and Implications from Pandemic-Era Research By, Dr. C. Fred Engelhardt Jr., Director of Grants and Program Development, City School District of Albany There are certain national and global events that […]

NYKids' Latest Research: Job Demands and Control among Elementary School Teachers By Aaron Leo, Elizabeth A. Holdsworth, & Kristen C. Wilcox As discussed in previous blogs, NYKids conducted a survey study of educators’ experiences of s […]

Colleagues from the American Institutes for Research visit UAlbany, Chatham, and Tech Valley High School By, Aaron Leo, Lisa Graham-Donato, Jessie Tobin, Kristen C. Wilcox Over the past year, NYKids has partnered with Chatham Central School District […]

Better Relationships – Better Decision-Making – Better Outcomes for Students and Educators By Manya C. Bouteneff, Ed.D. Poverty is not fate. The cycle of poverty and poor academic performance is not inevitable. I identified high-poverty, […]

Back to School: Key Strategies to Encourage Student Engagement and Belonging By, Jessie Tobin and Maria Khan Another summer has flown by, and students and educators around the world are returning to school in September. After months […]

Engagement and Continuous School Improvement in the New School Year: NYKids and Oppenheim-Ephratah St. Johnsville’s COMPASS Institute Highlights By Jessie Tobin, Kristen C. Wilcox & Meg Rooney What Do We Know About Engagement? “[My] priority was [to] build relationships built on mutual respect a […]

How Educators in Rural Schools Met the Challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic By Gregory Massara Background & Overview  In rural communities, the shift in education during the pandemic involved an “entirely different experience” in l […]

Celebrating Student Diversity: How has Albany School of Humanities Created a Culture of Belongingness? By, Marie Culihan, Principal of Albany School of Humanities (ASH) and Maria Khan, an ASH Parent and Postdoctoral Associate at NYKids Research has […]

Upcoming New York State School Board’s Association Event: Promoting Educator Well-being By, Kristen C. Wilcox, Associate Professor, University at Albany & Director, NYKids & Aaron Leo, Assistant Director, NYKids What do we know about educator […]

NYKids Partners with HFM BOCES: Galvanizing Shared Leadership for Equity in 2023 By Kristen C. Wilcox and Jessie Tobin Wondering what to focus on in the 2023 school year and how to launch improvement efforts for equity this summer? […]

Using Data for Continuous Improvement with the New and Improved NYKids Performance Tracker Tool  By Maria I. Khan and Kristen C. Wilcox “We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure.” – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach […]

Engaging the Families of Multilingual Learners During the Pandemic By, Dr. Amy Crosson, Associate Professor, Penn State’s College of Education,  Dr. Rebecca Silverman, Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Ed […]