Jessie Tobin

By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

As leaders and educators enter a third pandemic-disrupted school year, making schools places where young people have all of their variable needs met is a challenge heightened […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox, Catherine Kramer, & Amanda Lester

In the United States, advances in information technology, increasing competition in the global marketplace, and social unrest, rooted in longstanding […]

By Catherine Guthrie
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, district and building leaders across the United States are tasked with reimagining what public education will look like for students when they come back […]

By Aaron Leo, Kristen C. Wilcox, Lisa (Fang) Yu

Introduction

To gain a better understanding of educators’ experiences at work and feelings about their jobs, NYKids staff and research colleagues have designed a […]

By K. C. Wilcox
“It takes both anticipation and resilience to manage unexpected disruptions, a combination that we call mindful organizing”
(Weick & Sutcliffe, “Managing the Unexpected”, 2015).
The COVID-1 […]

By Dr. Kathryn Schiller & Beth Anne Horning

Dr. Kathryn Schiller, a NYKids’ Co-investigator and Chair and Associate Professor in the Educational Policy and Leadership Department at University at Albany, along w […]

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

Making Social-Emotional Health a Priority

As we covered in a previous blog, the pandemic has caused detrimental effects on some children’s academic learning, b […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 AER […]

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 sha […]

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 […]

By Lisa Yu

Since last weekend, thousands of protestors rallied to “Stop Asian Hate” around the country, calling for an end to violence against Asian Americans. According to the Center for the Study of Hate and […]

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

The changes wrought by the pandemic have had drastic effects on the mental health of youth across the world. As previous NYKids blogs have noted, incidents of […]

By Tammy Ellis-Robinson, Jessie Tobin, & Kristen C. Wilcox

In a recent blog, NYKids discussed the topic of diversity within the education and mental health counseling workforces and highlighted the positive […]

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

Prospects of a brighter future are becoming clearer as another COVID-19 vaccine is approved and the arrival of spring is just around the corner. The anticipation to […]

By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the majority of students attending public schools in the United States are children of color. Despite this increasing […]