By Kristen Wilcox This week, NYKids shares its work with Fort Plain Junior-Senior High School to address pandemic-related disruptions via its research-practice partnership at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Conference in San Diego, CA. Meeting 21st Century Problems with …
By Aaron Leo, Kristen Wilcox, and Jessie Tobin This week, NYKids Graduate Assistant and UAlbany Educational Policy and Leadership doctoral student Jessie Tobin presents findings from NYKids’ College and Career Readiness Study on peer relationships at the American Educational Research …
By Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox Youths’ Mental Health and Trauma during the Pandemic As documented in previous NYKids blogs, students’ mental health and social-emotional wellbeing has become a top priority for educators across the country. While …
By Jessie Tobin What role do higher education institutions play in diversifying the education workforce and ensuring students of all backgrounds feel belonging within their chosen fields in education? NYKids Director and Associate Professor Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox is a member …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Maria I. Khan On Monday, March 7, 2022, the NYKids team met with our Advisory Board members to share updates on NYKids’ core mission to Inform, Inspire, and Improve and to receive feedback on plans …
By Jessie Tobin & Aaron Leo Supporting youths’ mental health has been a priority for school and district leaders for several years. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has exposed existing inequalities regarding access to mental health care and created new dilemmas. …
by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox Two years in at the time of this writing, the far-reaching and profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are not fully understood. Emerging research suggests that the pandemic has exacerbated already existing inequalities …
By Hal Lawson and Francesca Durand Principals and district central officers are entrusted with an important, challenging mission. They and their respective workforces must ensure that all the children and youths in their care are provided with equitable opportunities to …
By, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, Maria Khan, and Kristen C. Wilcox NYKids recently finished the first phase of our study entitled “Discovering Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce” in which we surveyed over 900 educators across New …
By Maria I. Khan & Kristen C. Wilcox As we announced in a recent blog, the American Institutes of Research (AIR) Equity in Education initiative is supporting research-practice partnerships (including NYKids) to work on high leverage problems of practice focused …