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 …
By, Kristen C. Wilcox, Associate Professor, University at Albany & Director, NYKids & Aaron Leo, Assistant Director, NYKids What do we know about educator well-being during the pandemic and what can School Board members do to ensure that schools are …
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? Whether it’s tackling student engagement challenges or plugging holes in the educator workforce …
By Maria I. Khan and Kristen C. Wilcox “We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure.” – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Collecting, interpreting, and using data is necessary for knowing what changes worked, for whom they worked, …
by Jessie Tobin and Kristen C. Wilcox In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) published data on youth reading assessments showing a dip in test scores among nine-year-old students. These data were especially alarming for students with disabilities …