By Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox Youths’ Mental Health and Trauma during the Pandemic As documented in previous NYKids blogs, students’ mental health and social-emotional wellbeing has become a top priority for educators across the country. While …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Maria I. Khan On Monday, March 7, 2022, the NYKids team met with our Advisory Board members to share updates on NYKids’ core mission to Inform, Inspire, and Improve and to receive feedback on plans …
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 access to mental health care and created new dilemmas. …
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 youths in their care are provided with equitable opportunities to …
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 work on high leverage problems of practice focused …
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 Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education …
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 classrooms …
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 stress and job satisfaction along with educators’ willingness and …
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 Assembly Hall. NYKids’ most recent research on differential impacts of the …
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 COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce …