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 …
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 by the need for clear communications …
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 opportunity inequities for people of color and those growing up in …
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 to school this fall. With discussion …
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 and implemented a study to explore the effects …
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-19 pandemic has created what Dr. Robert Griffin, Dean and Professor …
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 with doctoral student and research assistant Beth Anne Horning …