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Teachers’ Emotions during the Pandemic by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox “Emotions are at the heart of teaching” – Hargreaves (2001, p. 835) Teaching goes far beyond simply “delivering” content t […]

by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox
Recent NYKids blogs have explored findings from our latest report, “Opportunities and Challenges to Adapt and Innovate: How Educators Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The res […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox & Francesca Durand
In this blog, we (Drs. Kristen C. Wilcox, University at Albany and Francesca Durand, Russell Sage College) share findings from a study of leaders’ stakeholder empowerment s […]

by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox

In NYKids’ most recent study, our team investigated how educators responded to the pandemic in six schools across New York State. These schools were identified as positive o […]

by Maria I. Khan, Kristen C. Wilcox, Jessie Tobin & Aaron Leo

NYKids has been working to address many of the adverse effects of the pandemic through our COVID-19 research study as well as supporting and […]

by Maria I. Khan and Kristen C. Wilcox
As the pandemic began in March 2020, millions of children around the world were shifted from in-person to remote instruction. Globally, education systems and structures […]

By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

Happy New Year from NYKids! We are thrilled to embark on a new era of accomplishing our mission to inform, inspire, and improve with our partners across the state, nation, […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox & Hal A. Lawson
Unpacking “Equity”
“Equity continues to be defined in a variety of ways and the goals and character of equity-oriented improvement efforts are impacted by how equity is defin […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox (University at Albany, SUNY) & Sarah J. Zuckerman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
“Will you be here in three years?”
I was asked this question recently when facilitating a conversation wit […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox, Maria I. Khan, Aaron Leo and Jessie Tobin
The NYKids team is pleased to announce that our latest report “Opportunities and Challenges to Adapt and Innovate: How Educators Confronted the C […]

By, Kristen C. Wilcox, Maria I. Khan, Aaron Leo and Jessie Tobin

The NYKids team met with our Advisory Board members for the fall 2022 meeting on November 10. Through these meetings, our team regularly shares […]

By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

Crown Point Central School was one of seven schools NYKids investigated in the 2018 College and Career Readiness (CCR) study and was also highlighted in the CCR youth-focused […]

by Aaron Leo
The last year has seen a range of new evidence which points to the severe effects of the pandemic on youths’ mental health and social-emotional wellbeing.
A report from the Center for Disease C […]

by Dr. Christine Smith

Merriam-Webster defines the word “safe” as: secure from threat of danger, harm, or loss. With what appears to be an increase of gun violence on school property across the US, “school safet […]

By Maria I. Khan & Kristen C. Wilcox

NYKids’s Partnerships with TVHS and Chatham with support from AIR

NYKids has been regularly sharing updates about our work with Tech Valley High School and Chatham Central S […]

By, Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox
“We must do more to support students and teachers in our state and encourage a new generation to enter the field of education so that New York never again faces the chronic […]

By K.C. Wilcox

Reports continue to roll in regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health. In a 2021 report, an estimated 37.1% of students experienced poor mental health in t […]

By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox
As we have recounted in previous blogs, NYKids’ most recent study explored the impacts of the pandemic on educators in six schools throughout New York State. One line of i […]

NYKids is happy to share a blog from our most recent study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education workforce. It highlights key take-aways from Shaker Road Elementary School in the South Colonie […]

by Brian Carey and Susan Phillips

As we head back to school, it is a good time to take stock of the contributions of the many personnel that make for a successful school and a quality education.  Every one of […]