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By Kristen C. Wilcox, Catherine Kramer, & Amanda Lester

In the United States, advances in information technology, increasing competition in the global marketplace, and social unrest, rooted in longstanding […]

By Catherine Guthrie
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, district and building leaders across the United States are tasked with reimagining what public education will look like for students when they come back […]

By Aaron Leo, Kristen C. Wilcox, Lisa (Fang) Yu

Introduction

To gain a better understanding of educators’ experiences at work and feelings about their jobs, NYKids staff and research colleagues have designed a […]

By K. C. Wilcox
“It takes both anticipation and resilience to manage unexpected disruptions, a combination that we call mindful organizing”
(Weick & Sutcliffe, “Managing the Unexpected”, 2015).
The COVID-1 […]

By Jessie Tobin

Over the past two years, school professionals have been forced to navigate multiple disruptions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the challenges posed by the pandemic uniquely impacted each […]

By Lisa Yu, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox

The COVID-19 pandemic has added more stress to the already high-stress profession of teaching. In a recent study, nearly half the participants who voluntarily quit […]

By, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, and Kristen C. Wilcox

On June 29, NYKids Director of Research and Development Kristen Wilcox participated in the Top7 Intelligent Communities Conference hosted by the Intelligent […]

By Jessie Tobin, Kristen C. Wilcox, and Aaron Leo
NYKids Research and Development Director and Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at the University at Albany, Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox, recently […]

By Dr. Kathryn Schiller & Beth Anne Horning

Dr. Kathryn Schiller, a NYKids’ Co-investigator and Chair and Associate Professor in the Educational Policy and Leadership Department at University at Albany, along w […]

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

Making Social-Emotional Health a Priority

As we covered in a previous blog, the pandemic has caused detrimental effects on some children’s academic learning, b […]

by Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, and Kristen C. Wilcox

As the school year comes to a close and summer approaches, educators and researchers have already begun thinking about how to best prepare for school this fall. […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin
For school and district leaders, the end of the 2020-21 school year may come with a combination of exhaustion and a sense of relief, but also foreboding.
What can education […]

By Fang (Lisa) Yu, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, & Kristen C. Wilcox

The COVID-19 pandemic has added more stress to the already high-stress profession of educating children and youth. Unfortunately, the experiences […]

By Brian Rhode and Kristen C. Wilcox

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged even the most experienced leaders to adapt and innovate and help others in their schools and districts to do the same. Looking ahead to […]

By Jessie Tobin

The University at Albany recently hosted a virtual seminar featuring bestselling author and antiracist scholar Ibram X. Kendi. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the […]

New NAEd Report Highlights Need for Civic Education By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox Civic education has become even more crucial in light of political and social upheavals around the world this year. To […]

A $1.5 million dollar college and career readiness program for rural schools throughout New York and Vermont was announced last week by College for Every Student (CFES) Brilliant Pathways, a non-profit […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox & Deborah Larrabee

This Carnegie Foundation Summit presentation revisits Fort Plain Junior Senior High school which has partnered with NYKids for a number of years in using NYKids’ positive o […]

By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox

The American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting occurred over the past week in a virtual format due to the pandemic. As we described in last week’s blog the AER […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox

It’s time again for the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting. This conference brings together policymakers, researchers, and educators from around the globe to sha […]