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 …
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, but also has affected the social-emotional development of …
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 leaders expect with …
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 of educators – including school instructional and support …
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 the fall, re-opening schools …
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 Director of the Center for Antiracist …