by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox “Emotions are at the heart of teaching” – Hargreaves (2001, p. 835) Teaching goes far beyond simply “delivering” content to learners but is intimately linked with emotions. As education scholar Hargreaves’ quote suggests, …
by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox Recent NYKids blogs have explored findings from our latest report, “Opportunities and Challenges to Adapt and Innovate: How Educators Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The research drew on interviews and focus groups with 88 …
by Kristen C. Wilcox & Francesca Durand In this blog, we (Drs. Kristen C. Wilcox, University at Albany and Francesca Durand, Russell Sage College) share findings from a study of leaders’ stakeholder empowerment strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. More from …
by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox In NYKids’ most recent study, our team investigated how educators responded to the pandemic in six schools across New York State. These schools were identified as positive outliers based on their relatively better …
by Maria I. Khan, Kristen C. Wilcox, Jessie Tobin & Aaron Leo NYKids has been working to address many of the adverse effects of the pandemic through our COVID-19 research study as well as supporting and developing research-practice partnerships (RPPs) …
by Maria I. Khan and Kristen C. Wilcox As the pandemic began in March 2020, millions of children around the world were shifted from in-person to remote instruction. Globally, education systems and structures changed dramatically. Pandemic-induced remote schooling was experienced …
By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox Happy New Year from NYKids! We are thrilled to embark on a new era of accomplishing our mission to inform, inspire, and improve with our partners across the state, nation, and world (and …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Hal A. Lawson Unpacking “Equity” “Equity continues to be defined in a variety of ways and the goals and character of equity-oriented improvement efforts are impacted by how equity is defined” (Wilcox & Lawson, 2022, …
By Kristen C. Wilcox (University at Albany, SUNY) & Sarah J. Zuckerman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Will you be here in three years?” I was asked this question recently when facilitating a conversation with improvement team members in one of NYKids’ …
by Kristen C. Wilcox, Maria I. Khan, Aaron Leo and Jessie Tobin The NYKids team is pleased to announce that our latest report “Opportunities and Challenges to Adapt and Innovate: How Educators Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic” is now available on …