NYKids News: Themes and Reflections from 2021
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 Workforce“. As the year draws to an end, we extend our appreciation for what educators have done to cope and share our plans for research and collaborations in 2022.
NYKids Research Plans for 2022
The pandemic seems far from being over – leaving a long-lasting impact on the cradle-to career education pipeline. In the next phase of our COVID-19 response study, our goal is to discover the ways schools with variable education workforce experiences adapt and innovate. This next phase of our study promises to yield new insights into how educators, leaders, and policymakers can develop more resilient and crisis responsive school systems.
Research-Practice Partnerships in 2022
In 2022, NYKids will be addressing high leverage problems of practice with our newest partner: the American Institute of Research (AIR) Equity in Education initiative. Through this research-practice partnership, we will begin our work with Tech Valley High and Chatham Central School District. Additionally, our team is looking forward to continuing our partnership with the Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA) to share our hands-on continuous improvement resources with educators and school leaders.
Recapping Most Popular Blogs Highlighted in our Newsletter
Our most popular blogs this past year have featured strategies for supporting student and staff mental health during times of crisis; research-based practices on helping young learners navigate unsteady transitions at school; insights from positive outlier schools on effective leader communications; and ways to promote two-way communications between parents, community members, and schools staff during challenging times.
Links to these most popular blogs:
Social-Emotional Learning and Mental Health
Leaders’ Communication
Parent, Community and School Engagement
Appreciation for Our Co-Investigators, Partners and Collaborators
Last, but not least, throughout this past year, NYKids’ interdisciplinary team of co-investigators, Hal A. Lawson, Francesca Durand, and Kathryn Schiller, have helped our team explore trends in our data that can inform practice and policy in the days to come: we greatly appreciate their time and expertise. We also thank our research team member, Jose Mola-Avila for his valuable contributions to data analysis. And as always, we sincerely thank you, our readers, for your ongoing interest in NYKids. We invite you to share our resources with your networks and learn more about our work by visiting our webpage where we continue to add new research results and improvement resources. We also encourage you to reach out to us at nykids@albany.edu for direct assistance with your school improvement efforts or for research collaboration opportunities. To stay up to date with NYKids please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
