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 …
By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox The American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting occurred over the past week in a virtual format due to the pandemic. As we described in last week’s blog the AERA annual meeting brings together …
By Kristen C. Wilcox It’s time again for the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting. This conference brings together policymakers, researchers, and educators from around the globe to share research findings, connect with each other, and make progress toward improving …
By Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, & Kristen C. Wilcox Peer relationships are crucial influences in the lives of adolescents. While some studies have identified the ways in which negative peer interactions can harm young people’s self-esteem and academic performance, healthy …