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 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 …
by Kristen C. Wilcox Happy New Year! 2021 was a busy year for NYKids and we hope that 2022 will bring the spread of new innovations to tackle the many challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to all children, families, …
By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to disrupt regular school operations into a third year, the mental health of “pandemic children” as well as social-emotional learning opportunities are chief concerns. In this blog, …
By Jessie Tobin & Maria Khan During another year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the NYKids team has been busy working alongside our partners to disseminate findings from our study, “Discovering Differential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education …
by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox Family and community engagement has been a high priority for NYKids since its inception in 2005. More recently, we noted in an article published in the School Community Journal the importance of family-school …
By, Maria Khan, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox After all New York state schools shifted to remote instruction in March 2020, elementary school students were among the first to go back to in-person instruction. Most of these elementary school …
by Jessie Tobin, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox After a tumultuous couple of years, most students and staff have now returned to mostly in-person learning. Moving forward, one particular challenge facing school leaders and educators is an uptick in …