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By Jessie Tobin & Aaron Leo

Supporting youths’ mental health has been a priority for school and district leaders for several years. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has exposed existing inequalities regarding a […]

by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox
Two years in at the time of this writing, the far-reaching and profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are not fully understood. Emerging research suggests that the pandemic […]

By Hal Lawson and Francesca Durand

Principals and district central officers are entrusted with an important, challenging mission. They and their respective workforces must ensure that all the children and […]

By, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, Maria Khan, and Kristen C. Wilcox
NYKids recently finished the first phase of our study entitled “Discovering Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce” in which we […]

By Maria I. Khan & Kristen C. Wilcox

As we announced in a recent blog, the American Institutes of Research (AIR) Equity in Education initiative is supporting research-practice partnerships (including NYKids) to […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox
Happy New Year! 2021 was a busy year for NYKids and we hope that 2022 will bring the spread of new innovations to tackle the many challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to all children, […]

By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to disrupt regular school operations into a third year, the mental health of “pandemic children” as well as social-emotional learning opp […]

By Jessie Tobin & Maria Khan

During another year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the NYKids team has been busy working alongside our partners to disseminate findings from our study, “Discovering Differential […]

by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox

Family and community engagement has been a high priority for NYKids since its inception in 2005. More recently, we noted in an article published in the School Community Journal […]

By, Maria Khan, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox
After all New York state schools shifted to remote instruction in March 2020, elementary school students were among the first to go back to in-person instruction. […]

by Jessie Tobin, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox
After a tumultuous couple of years, most students and staff have now returned to mostly in-person learning. Moving forward, one particular challenge facing school […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox and Maria Khan

Recently NYKids team members attended the “Collaborative Learning and Technology in Networked Improvement Communities (NICs)” webinar hosted by the Carnegie Foundation for the […]

by Aaron Leo

Falling rates of student attendance in districts across the country have drawn attention from educators and policymakers. In this blog we discuss the importance of school attendance, the potential […]

By Maria Khan & Aaron Leo
There is an entire generation who will look back to themselves as “pandemic children” in the years to come. For many of them, this has been the first time they are in elementary cla […]

By Amanda Zullo

Within each stage of NYKids research, the role of communication from the building and district leadership has been analyzed. Communication has been noted as influencing educators’ levels of s […]

By Jessie Tobin

More than one month into the 2021 – 2022 academic year, school personnel across the nation continue to grapple with pandemic-related challenges.

One focus of attention is on the essential need t […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox

A Milestone Luncheon celebrating the achievements of the Minority Health Disparities (MHD) Engaged Researchers Collaborative was held on September 24th in the University at Albany’s A […]

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

On September 16th, a subgroup of NYKids Advisory Board members and NYKids researchers convened to discuss results from our Discovering Impacts of the […]

by Maria Ishaq Khan

Even after two years of pandemic disruptions and all the lessons learned throughout, the 2021-22 school year has been off to a rocky start with the delta variant casting a dark shadow on […]

By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

As leaders and educators enter a third pandemic-disrupted school year, making schools places where young people have all of their variable needs met is a challenge heightened […]