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, …
By Lisa Yu and Kristen C. Wilcox While English language learners (ELLs), like their native English-speaking peers, have been receiving remote instruction for several months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects on ELL academic learning and social and emotional …
by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox Culturally Responsive Education in Rural Schools The last several decades have seen a growing recognition of the value of culturally responsive education (CRE) alongside research that has documented its effectiveness in addressing disparities …
By April Prestipino Tools on Principal Leadership Actions In the 2012-2013 school year, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) deployed the Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness (DTSDE), to support low-performing schools (e.g., Focus Schools or Priority Schools) …
By Lisa Yu, Kristen C. Wilcox, Aaron Leo Agency has become a popular topic in the educational research literature as its enhancement has been viewed as a way to empower young people to act on their own and others’ behalf. …
by Kristen C. Wilcox School leaders and teachers need innovations that help them produce improvements that address the disparities of learning opportunities too many young people experience in K-12 schools. Innovative practices that re-center leaders’ and teachers’ attention on the …
by Kristen C. Wilcox As schools begin to reopen and after almost six months of varying degrees of closures in practically every segment of society across the United States, COVID melt has been a concern. While “COVID melt” (i.e. losses …