by Maria Ishaq Khan Even after two years of pandemic disruptions and all the lessons learned throughout, the 2021-22 school year has been off to a rocky start with the delta variant casting a dark shadow on reopening plans. Already, …
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 Jessie Tobin Over the past two years, school professionals have been forced to navigate multiple disruptions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the challenges posed by the pandemic uniquely impacted each individual, all school personnel were tasked with embracing …
By Lisa Yu, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox The COVID-19 pandemic has added more stress to the already high-stress profession of teaching. In a recent study, nearly half the participants who voluntarily quit teaching indicated the pandemic as the …
By, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, and Kristen C. Wilcox On June 29, NYKids Director of Research and Development Kristen Wilcox participated in the Top7 Intelligent Communities Conference hosted by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). The ICF is a think tank …
By Jessie Tobin, Kristen C. Wilcox, and Aaron Leo NYKids Research and Development Director and Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership at the University at Albany, Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox, recently presented at the June 28 Summer Symposium: Addressing …