Catherine Kramer

The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) and the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC) recently released a report.

The report “Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in T […]

A nagging question for many school and district leaders as well as others in charge of tracking student performance is “How do our kids perform compared to those in other schools?” Collecting and interpreting dat […]

While summer provides educators with opportunities for some well-deserved relaxation, it also offers opportunities to reflect and prepare for a new school year.  On July 17th  and 18th, educators from several s […]

Summer vacation provides school leaders with a time to retool and reboot. The MiddleWeb offers Four Summer Strategies for School Leaders to make this a productive time. Though written specifically for middle […]

One out of every four schools in the U.S. is considered rural, and these schools serve nearly nine million students according to a report from the Rural School and Community Trust.

Rural students have both […]

“We tend to work with a culture of ‘We’re going to give you [students] respect and we’re going to expect it back, and we are going to have conversations with you [students] when we see that that’s not happening […]

NYKids hosted a small gathering of some of our advisory committee members to discuss new directions for NYKids in the upcoming academic year. Among the many planned activities, NYKids is gearing up to go back into […]

By Hal A. Lawson

The 20th Century management guru, Peter Drucker, claimed that planning for a more desirable future starts with “a theory of planned abandonment.”  He offered a question to launch it: If we hadn […]

In the 2018-19 school year, NYKids worked with Arongen and Montgomery C. Smith Elementary Schools on identifying and addressing improvement goals. COMPASS Institutes harness NYKids research on odds-beating schools […]

A recent report by the Latino Educational Advocacy Directors (LEAD) Coalition calls attention to the distressing graduation rates of New York State’s English language learners (ELLs)[1]: in 2017, the four-year d […]

By Catherine Kramer

The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) examined international educational systems, highlighting two countries – Japan and Singapore – for promoting equity among mar […]

By Aaron Leo, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Kristen C. Wilcox, Director of Research and Development

Team-based approaches to improve school functioning and student outcomes offer great promise, yet frequently yield […]

The NYKids team attended the sixth annual Carnegie Foundation Summit hosted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Summit brings together practicing K-12 and post-secondary educators, […]

By Catherine Kramer, Research Assistant, Kristen Wilcox, Director of Research and Development, Kathryn Schiller, Co-Investigator

School culture survey results, part of the college and career readiness study, […]

By Catherine Kramer

Kristen Wilcox, Catherine Kramer, and Hal Lawson presented findings from the latest study (college and career readiness) at the annual conference of the American Education Research […]

by Aaron Leo and  Kristen C. Wilcox

“We’re not afraid to be ourselves… we [have] academic freedom and flexibility.” – Sherburne-Earlville teacher

“…the student … as opposed to being taught to, they’re more tau […]

By Kathryn S. Schiller, Co-Investigator, Catherine Kramer, Research Assistant, and Kristen C. Wilcox, Director of Research and Development
Since 2004, NYKids has studied elementary, middle, and high schools that […]

Capital Area School Development Association Executive Director, Mike Piccirillo, spoke with NYKids Director of Research and Development Kristen Wilcox.  They discussed culturally responsive education in […]

By Brian D. Rhode (Interim Director of Professional Development and Lead Evaluator, Averill Park CSD) and Kristen C. Wilcox (Director of Research and Development, NYKids)

It seems fair to say that most educators […]

By Catherine Kramer, Research Assistant, NYKids

“There is a remarkable confluence of experience and science on one point: Children learn best when we treat them as human beings, with social and emotional as w […]