By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, educators across the United States have the opportunity to explore Native American history with their students. Unfortunately, simplistic tales about the relationships of Native Americans and colonists still …
By Kristen C. Wilcox Like a tornado, COVID-19 has shown itself to be a somewhat unpredictable and dangerous force of nature. And as one storm chaser in the thriller “Twister” recommended while a tornado approached and debris starting flying through …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Aaron Leo This Veterans Day, we take a moment to unpack the concept of “civic engagement”, reflect on the value of community and national service, and connect these topics to ways educators in positive outlier …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin On November 4th, the NYKids team attended an edTrends panel discussion on civil discourse and civic engagement. The panel participants offered their perspectives on the ways that educators can facilitate civil discourse that …
By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox This is the second in a series of blogs presenting our findings from the second phase of the College and Career Readiness Study focusing on students’ experiences and perspectives in two odds-beating schools. …
by Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin Educators in rural schools, like in other school contexts (Kerner & Hall, 2009; Sorensen & Fleming, 2004), are increasingly expected to use relevant research to guide school and district improvements and show measurable …
By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox As announced in recent blog posts, our NYKids team has just completed the second phase of the College and Career Readiness Study focusing on students’ perspectives on their high school experience at two …
By Jessie Tobin, Lisa Yu, & Kristen C. Wilcox In this blog, we highlight one of the six principles of Improvement Science; being problem-focused and user-centered. We connect it to NYKids improvement work and research with a few suggested strategies …
By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox The Latinx student population residing in the United States tripled between 1980 and the end of the 20th century; currently one in four students in U.S. schools identify as Latinx (see chart below). …
By Jessie Tobin, Lisa Yu, and Kristen C. Wilcox Kids, as major stakeholders in their own educational experiences, have a lot to lose when they don’t have opportunities to voice their own opinions, take actions about things they care about, …