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A primary activity of NYKids is to conduct research and identify promising practices in odds-beating schools.

Results of each study are available in multiple formats and include reports that summarize the results of each study; best practice frameworks that offer comparisons of higher- and typically-performing schools and sample documents from the odds-beating performers; and case studies of the individual higher-performing, odds-beating schools studied.

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Minority Health Disparities Research Study


Minority Health Disparities: Research Study: Remote Schooling and Adverse Childhood Events during COVID 19

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May 23, 2022

AERA 2022 – Rural School Adaptations


This AERA presentation discusses how NYKids functions as an RPP and how it uses improvement science as a foundation for the work via an innovation called COMPASS.

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April 20, 2022

AERA 2022 – Peer relationships


This presentation, entitled “Fostering positive peer relationships: a qualitative study of two secondary schools,” was presented at the 2022 American Educational Research Association’s annual conference held in San Diego.

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Carnegie Summit 2022 – Decolonizing Pedagogy


Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox and Dr. Tammy Ellis-Robinson presented work on decolonizing pedagogies at the 2022 Carnegie Summit

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March 24, 2022

Discovering Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methods and Procedures Report


Discovering Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce: Methods and Procedures Report

February 4, 2022

UCEA Conference 2021


School Leaders’ Roles in Addressing Differential Impacts of the Pandemic

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November 11, 2021

Critical Conversations – Preparing School Leaders for Fall 2021


In this presentation sponsored by Questar III-BOCES, Dr. Kristen Wilcox facilitates a discussion on how to prepare school leaders for the upcoming school year.

August 5, 2021

SUNY Symposium – Differential Impacts of COVID


This presentation entitled “Discovering Differential Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce” was delivered at the 2021 Summer Symposium: Differential Impacts of COVID-19 in New York State hosted by the University at Albany (SUNY).

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June 28, 2021

Rural Schools’ Adaptations, Improvements, and Innovations – Carnegie


This Carnegie Foundation Summit presentation revisits Fort Plain Junior Senior High school which has partnered with NYKids for a number of years in using NYKids’ positive outlier/deviance research in combination with improvement science-based processes and tools in what we call COMPASS.

April 22, 2021

Rural Student Aspirations – AERA 2021


2021 AERA Presentation on Rural Student Aspirations

April 7, 2021

Disrupting Inequities in Diverse Schools – AERA 2021 Presentation


2021 AERA Presentation: Disrupting Inequities in Diverse Schools: A Participatory Performance of School and District Leader Discourses

Phase II Cross Case Report: Students Perspectives’ on Preparing for Life Beyond High School


This cross-case report is the second phase of our College and Career Readiness study and is entitled: Students’ Perspectives on Life After High School. This phase focuses on students’ voices from two of the positive outlier schools that participated in the first phase of our study.

January 15, 2021

Rural Research-Practice Partnerships: Collaborating for Continuous Improvement


This presentation delivered by Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox at the New York State School Boards Association annual conference explores the role of Research-Practice Partnerships in improving school out comes in rural schools.

November 4, 2020

Methods and Procedures Report: Phase Two Study


This report details the methods utilized in NYKids recent follow-up to the College and Career Readiness study of 2018.

November 3, 2020

Malverne Senior High School – College and Career Readiness Student Study: Phase II


This qualitative case study highlights the perspectives of students from Malverne High School, an odds-beating school part of our Phase I Case Study on College and Career Readiness.

October 16, 2020

Crown Point Central School – College and Career Readiness Student Study: Phase II


This qualitative case study highlights the perspectives of students from Crown Point Central School, an odds-beating school part of our Study of College and Career Readiness among odds-beating secondary schools.

Secondary School Principal’s Orientations Toward and Uses of Data for Improvement


Dr. Lisa Cala Ruud’s dissertation defense presentation on how odds-beating school principals use data

May 7, 2020

NYKids COVID-19 & Remote Learning Interview with Dr Vincent Romano-Principal, Malverne Sr HS


In this interview, Dr. Vincent Romano, Principal at Malverne Senior High School, a positive outlier school in Malverne, NY, shares insight into the ways his school and district have built upon existing instructional and education technology plans to develop remote learning strategies in response to COVID-19 school closures.
(A link to the video interview is available in this attached document.)

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April 15, 2020

NYKids COVID-19 & Remote Learning Interview with Julie Verdonik-Principal, Maple Grove Jr-Sr HS


In this interview, Julie Verdonik, Principal at Maple Grove Jr/Sr High School, a positive outlier school in Bemus Point, NY, shares insight into the ways her school and district have built upon prior district initiatives centered around the use of educational technology to develop a remote learning plan in response to COVID-19 school closures.

(A link to the video interview is available in this attached document.)

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April 9, 2020

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