By Aaron Leo and C. Fred Engelhardt Jr. This January, educators, policymakers, and community members from across the country arrived in New York City for the Center for School Improvement (CSI) Leadership Institute held by the American Federation of Teachers …
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 fulfilling our mission “to inform, inspire, and improve.” We extend appreciation to the state …
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 of positive outlier school studies we have conducted, agency is …
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 down memory lane and reflecting on our audience engagement in …
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 superintendents from the greater Capital Region and their teams met on a conference call. …
By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox While NYKids Director Kristen C. Wilcox attended the UCEA convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, co-facilitating critical conversations on collaborative research, Aaron Leo, Assistant Director of Research for NYKids, was in Toronto, Canada for the …
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 folks remember the precise moment when they occurred, and all of the situational context associated …
By, Aaron Leo, Lisa Graham-Donato, Jessie Tobin, Kristen C. Wilcox Over the past year, NYKids has partnered with Chatham Central School District (CSD), Tech Valley High (TVHS), and colleagues from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) COVID-19 Equity in Education project to address the impacts …
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 of summer break, getting back into the school schedule and engaging in school activities …
By, Marie Culihan, Principal of Albany School of Humanities (ASH) and Maria Khan, an ASH Parent and Postdoctoral Associate at NYKids Research has demonstrated the benefits of celebrating diversity in classrooms and schools including improved academic outcomes, better social-emotional capabilities …