By Kristen C. Wilcox and Maria Khan Recently NYKids team members attended the “Collaborative Learning and Technology in Networked Improvement Communities (NICs)” webinar hosted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Panelists included: Anthony S. Bryk, author of …
by Aaron Leo Falling rates of student attendance in districts across the country have drawn attention from educators and policymakers. In this blog we discuss the importance of school attendance, the potential reasons behind the declining rates, and measures which …
By Maria Khan & Aaron Leo There is an entire generation who will look back to themselves as “pandemic children” in the years to come. For many of them, this has been the first time they are in elementary classrooms …
By Amanda Zullo Within each stage of NYKids research, the role of communication from the building and district leadership has been analyzed. Communication has been noted as influencing educators’ levels of stress and job satisfaction along with educators’ willingness and …
By Jessie Tobin More than one month into the 2021 – 2022 academic year, school personnel across the nation continue to grapple with pandemic-related challenges. One focus of attention is on the essential need to safely transport children and youth …
By Kristen C. Wilcox A Milestone Luncheon celebrating the achievements of the Minority Health Disparities (MHD) Engaged Researchers Collaborative was held on September 24th in the University at Albany’s Assembly Hall. NYKids’ most recent research on differential impacts of the …
By Kristen C. Wilcox, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, & Maria Khan On September 16th, a subgroup of NYKids Advisory Board members and NYKids researchers convened to discuss results from our Discovering Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce …
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 …