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 Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, and Kristen C. Wilcox As the school year comes to a close and summer approaches, educators and researchers have already begun thinking about how to best prepare for school this fall. This blog explores research …
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 …
By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox Civic education has become even more crucial in light of political and social upheavals around the world this year. To address the need to prepare young people to engage responsibly in civil society, …
A $1.5 million dollar college and career readiness program for rural schools throughout New York and Vermont was announced last week by College for Every Student (CFES) Brilliant Pathways, a non-profit organization based in Essex, New York. The program requires …
by Kristen C. Wilcox & Deborah Larrabee This Carnegie Foundation Summit presentation revisits Fort Plain Junior Senior High school which has partnered with NYKids for a number of years in using NYKids’ positive outlier/deviance research in com bination with improvement …