Aaron Leo

By Kristen C. Wilcox
As we introduced in a previous blog, NYKids has partnered with Chatham Central School District, Tech Valley High (TVHS), and colleagues from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) COVID-19 […]

By, Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

Across the country, students are being released for the summer in just days. For educators, that final ring of the bell may elicit a range of emotions. From NYKids’ current […]

By, Vilma Argueta, Sophia Loughran, Graham Vonnegut and Mitchell Basin Kozhkokar

Introduction

The impact of COVID-19 on education has been detrimental throughout the last couple of years for students and […]

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 […]

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 R […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 opp […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 t […]

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 […]

By Jessie Tobin

Over the past two years, school professionals have been forced to navigate multiple disruptions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the challenges posed by the pandemic uniquely impacted each […]

By Lisa Yu, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox

The COVID-19 pandemic has added more stress to the already high-stress profession of teaching. In a recent study, nearly half the participants who voluntarily quit […]

By, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, and Kristen C. Wilcox

On June 29, NYKids Director of Research and Development Kristen Wilcox participated in the Top7 Intelligent Communities Conference hosted by the Intelligent […]