NYKids – University at Albany | Jessie Tobin | Activity https://ny-kids.org/members/jtobin/activity/ Activity feed for Jessie Tobin. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:13:43 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9144565441ddab390024fa3a3d835069 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=13751 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:35:49 -0500 Amplifying Youth Voice and Identity through Action Research: A Conversation with Dr. Jenay F. E. Willis This latest blog shares highlights from our Deep Dive podcast episode with Dr. Jenay F. E. Willis from the University of Mississippi!  Dr. Willis is a […]

]]> 08458d57bac1f3384392c0369970c119 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=13497 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:44:34 -0500 Tracking Developments in the Superintendency with Dr. Chuck Dedrick: Executive Director of the New York State Council of School SuperintendentsBy Kristen C. Wilcox and Aaron Leo  About Chuck Dedrick: Our Latest Podcast Guest  We are delighted to announce a new podcast with Dr. Charles S. D […]

]]> 21d2577df93222565658d8ba94f0d0b7 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=13433 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:20:49 -0500 Community Schools and Partnerships: A Conversation with Dr. Dawn Anderson-Butcher On this week’s Deep Dive episode, NYKids Research Assistant, Jessie Tobin, interviews Dr. Dawn Anderson-Butcher from Ohio State University (OSU). Dr. A […]

]]> 95b4681c386e8b308456de98ee1164aa Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=13130 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:36:36 -0500 NYKids Deep Dive Podcast: A Conversation with Cindy Gallagher of SAANYSBy Maria I. Khan and Aaron Leo We’re excited to announce a brand-new episode of NYKids Deep Dive, our podcast series featuring powerful conversations with e […]

]]> 11537f314ebd380c8f9d56bfb1b8ad48 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=13093 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:19:20 -0500 New Podcast Episode: Demystifying the NYKids Performance Tracker  We’re excited to announce the latest episode of our podcast, where we dive deep into the world of student performance data with two brilliant minds: Doug Ful […]

]]> 7a487566a92e86a49dd6cfeb2ff93dac Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=13001 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:04:20 -0500 The Shifting Purpose of a High School Education By K.C. Wilcox NYKids’ research was recently highlighted in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Educational Change Special Interest Group “ […]

]]> 5d8ae407e6fe18ae0db6c067a7f57a0e Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12801 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:39:28 -0500 Relationships as the Foundation to Civil Discourse: Lessons from Alfred-Almond Jr. Sr. HS By Paul Guay and Jessie Tobin “We do not shy away from this… talk, talk and learn how to talk civilly.” – Teacher, Alfred-Almond Jr. Sr. HS In the wake […]

]]> 9200da0d33e96348137912e090f121d4 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12427 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:54:22 -0500 The Five S’s of Continuous Improvement Taking Hold in Wynantskill: A Second in our Series of Updates from NYKids’ COMPASS Partners By Kristen C. Wilcox and Lisa Graham-Donato As the second in a series on NYKids’ partner schools’ improvement efforts, this week we are focusing on Wyn […]

]]> 000b5bda3929f437c01171c883ad1a34 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12422 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:53:36 -0500 Highlights from NYKids’ Conference Presentations on Leader-Researcher Collaboration By Kristen C. Wilcox We (Kristen and Aaron) were honored to have opportunities to represent NYKids and participate in two conferences between November 17th- […]

]]> 74ffb7cef7022ab629f32e4e1733a0af Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12410 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:42:01 -0500 The Five S’s of Continuous Improvement: Updates form NYKids’ COMPASS Partner Oppenheim-Ephratah St. Johnsville (OESJ) by Kristen C. Wilcox, Meg Rooney, and Lisa Graham-Donato The growing body of research on what supports school improvement initiatives points to a few key […]

]]> 5c555978efcffb8c5019d9e460a8f1ea Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12388 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:22:09 -0500 NYKids' Latest Research: Job Demands and Control among Elementary School Teachers By Aaron Leo, Elizabeth A. Holdsworth, & Kristen C. Wilcox As discussed in previous blogs, NYKids conducted a survey study of educators’ experiences of s […]

]]> 0f43942b1baef0307b4281cd5adbaea2 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12361 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:25:02 -0500 Better Relationships – Better Decision-Making – Better Outcomes for Students and Educators By Manya C. Bouteneff, Ed.D. Poverty is not fate. The cycle of poverty and poor academic performance is not inevitable. I identified high-poverty, […]

]]> 2813b201415bb465b13ff66ededae540 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12310 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 23:03:43 -0500 Engagement and Continuous School Improvement in the New School Year: NYKids and Oppenheim-Ephratah St. Johnsville’s COMPASS Institute Highlights By Jessie Tobin, Kristen C. Wilcox & Meg Rooney What Do We Know About Engagement? “[My] priority was [to] build relationships built on mutual respect a […]

]]> 6e6aa4300d5bb190140a813c4abcb45f Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12301 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:26:27 -0500 How Educators in Rural Schools Met the Challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic By Gregory Massara Background & Overview  In rural communities, the shift in education during the pandemic involved an “entirely different experience” in l […]

]]> 246c1be18691a0bcf44224a8ece95d21 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12227 Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:45:09 -0500 Engaging the Families of Multilingual Learners During the Pandemic By, Dr. Amy Crosson, Associate Professor, Penn State’s College of Education,  Dr. Rebecca Silverman, Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Ed […]

]]> 93e17672867e82a3b4cbd26d2497c247 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12177 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:35:33 -0500 Global Progressive Leadership for Equity: Athens, Greece Conference Take-aways By Kristen Campbell Wilcox What do progressive educational leaders need to know about addressing educational equity challenges from colleagues around the […]

]]> 4844e30eb0cab503585f082ced399fab Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12157 Thu, 04 May 2023 18:27:33 -0500 Flipping the Script: Are Schools and Colleges Ready for Today’s Students? By Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin From April 23rd -25th the NYKids team participated in the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s A […]

]]> ea1c1d9d212a032038ee232588d7190f Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=12147 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:48:02 -0500 Supporting Leaders’ Learning of the Foundations of Improvement Science: Highlights from an Upcoming Interactive Workshop By Kristen C. Wilcox On Monday April 24th at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront (and available as a pre-recorded session for those attending virtually) I am […]

]]> 02ceb9690c16acfcc6d54492a910c304 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11999 Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:49:40 -0500 By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

Happy New Year from NYKids! We are thrilled to embark on a new era of accomplishing our mission to inform, inspire, and improve with our partners across the state, nation, […]

]]> e2ff9e14835a9066e780f816c68d97f8 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11994 Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:25:08 -0500 By Kristen C. Wilcox & Hal A. Lawson
Unpacking “Equity”
“Equity continues to be defined in a variety of ways and the goals and character of equity-oriented improvement efforts are impacted by how equity is defin […]

]]> cae0363d2fe4306fb1838a15e7b51f1a Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11988 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:14:19 -0500 By Kristen C. Wilcox (University at Albany, SUNY) & Sarah J. Zuckerman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
“Will you be here in three years?”
I was asked this question recently when facilitating a conversation wit […]

]]> 4d7ceedb25d86c5ded7e2ba3a2f6585e Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11955 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:27:48 -0500 By Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox

Crown Point Central School was one of seven schools NYKids investigated in the 2018 College and Career Readiness (CCR) study and was also highlighted in the CCR youth-focused […]

]]> 880e1b2b906af02486c153c458132029 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11913 Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:52:28 -0500 By Maria I. Khan & Kristen C. Wilcox

NYKids’s Partnerships with TVHS and Chatham with support from AIR

NYKids has been regularly sharing updates about our work with Tech Valley High School and Chatham Central S […]

]]> 2aa5607cde160a4b947b83e867f4dfc3 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11900 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:08:55 -0500 By K.C. Wilcox

Reports continue to roll in regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health. In a 2021 report, an estimated 37.1% of students experienced poor mental health in t […]

]]> 9ad1504f643f1aa2a1c65ee5bcbe6f71 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11894 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:19:49 -0500 By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox
As we have recounted in previous blogs, NYKids’ most recent study explored the impacts of the pandemic on educators in six schools throughout New York State. One line of i […]

]]> d46e848ee3ac4723201dca488f5b5c5c Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11810 Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:51:16 -0500 By Aaron Leo & James Conway

NYKids is happy to share our second blog from our most recent study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education workforce. It highlights key take-aways from Lake George […]

]]> e15a25425048ebe4f060a04bcdd24a6d Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11796 Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:37:33 -0500 By K.C. Wilcox and John Egresits
This blog announces another NYKids 2022 case study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education workforce. It highlights key take-aways from the Whitesboro Middle […]

]]> ecca56744259753e3ab54b77bb2829f2 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11782 Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:54:44 -0500 By K.C. Wilcox and Kelli McGowan
This is the first in a series of blogs NYKids shares from our most recent study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education workforce. It highlights key take-aways […]

]]> 992426f4793bd7130f48591ce2c1ce13 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11729 Mon, 23 May 2022 14:10:56 -0500 By Jessie Tobin, Jordyn Kossow & Brittney Wong
The transition from high school to work or college is a critical turning point in a young person’s life. The challenges individuals might face during this time have b […]

]]> 29e8fab3f993e4564651e0845f0d137d Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11723 Fri, 06 May 2022 15:38:30 -0500 By Maria Khan & Dr. Kristen Wilcox

The American Institutes for Research (AIR) Equity in Education initiative is supporting research-practice partnerships (including NYKids, Tech Valley High (TVH) and Chatham High […]

]]> a3c025809ad3f6b842a067f8a46bf0b2 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11682 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:10:15 -0500 By Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox
Youths’ Mental Health and Trauma during the Pandemic
As documented in previous NYKids blogs, students’ mental health and social-emotional wellbeing has become a top […]

]]> 2c6feddb86656a790618031318eda56f Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11664 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:14:28 -0500 By Kristen C. Wilcox & Maria I. Khan

On Monday, March 7, 2022, the NYKids team met with our Advisory Board members to share updates on NYKids’ core mission to Inform, Inspire, and Improve and to receive f […]

]]> 1c287dbbf47cb2fc16d8a60339e1e5bf Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11659 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:10:53 -0500 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 a […]

]]> 98aab29292fb303d3a806627552e0c58 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11644 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:38:35 -0500 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 […]

]]> 3e8d65025e6f7fa721a4f65cd58cecc7 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11613 Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:23:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4b4d75559bd4e24ae187e86fb30ad886 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11571 Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:38:48 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4aaa8fe17251e09e328b78c98ad4f453 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11476 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:59:58 -0500 By Maria Khan & Aaron Leo
There is an entire generation who will look back to themselves as “pandemic children” in the years to come. For many of them, this has been the first time they are in elementary cla […]

]]> 95c184b15a5a2462fd94c3264bc796b9 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11401 Fri, 15 Oct 2021 17:41:43 -0500 By Amanda Zullo

Within each stage of NYKids research, the role of communication from the building and district leadership has been analyzed. Communication has been noted as influencing educators’ levels of s […]

]]> 41bbd9282cdbd11757d94236d7ee14e2 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11384 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:14:39 -0500 By Kristen C. Wilcox

A Milestone Luncheon celebrating the achievements of the Minority Health Disparities (MHD) Engaged Researchers Collaborative was held on September 24th in the University at Albany’s A […]

]]> 48a08badf3b87f9737d46671ce605294 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11378 Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:08:28 -0500 By Kristen C. Wilcox, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, & Maria Khan

On September 16th, a subgroup of NYKids Advisory Board members and NYKids researchers convened to discuss results from our Discovering Impacts of the […]

]]> 379b9ad007e5040abaf0f9e3c9f729c1 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11363 Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:48:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 6f660100de47e2a9d8f94ec6937526eb Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11344 Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:26:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> 662c9be61d23c42e0f98f0c951164375 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11332 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:49:26 -0500 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 […]

]]> de8665a791f8b9fb1f738d5cf2cadad1 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11326 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:38:41 -0500 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 […]

]]> fd22e7f448d9a4ce42a9cd838caa9a78 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11313 Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:45:30 -0500 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 […]

]]> 2b3991e8a07922ed755f7853274ecf86 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11223 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:49:19 -0500 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 […]

]]> bc57b362139aa4fdb2464fc7a691defc Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11218 Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:35:32 -0500 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 […]

]]> c11920c5a188309b813c1d35892cb4c0 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11196 Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:02:22 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7a984685593c831afc29e06595056216 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11193 Fri, 28 May 2021 15:45:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 993fb36fe49095d1736a89593548d372 Jessie Tobin wrote a new post https://ny-kids.org/?p=11189 Fri, 21 May 2021 16:52:33 -0500 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 […]

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