By, Kristen C. Wilcox and Theresa Billington NYKids has been studying positive outlier schools (those achieving statistically better outcomes for youth of color and those growing up in poverty) for two decades. One of our consistent findings has related to …
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 Wynantskill Union Free School District. We continue to draw on the 5S Framework for problem …
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 considerations. One iteration of these considerations was discussed in the recently published Foundational Handbook on …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin From April 23rd -25th the NYKids team participated in the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Annual Summit in San Diego, California. The event hosted funders, teachers, school and district leaders, improvement …
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 feedback on plans …
by Kristen C. Wilcox Happy New Year! 2021 was a busy year for NYKids and we hope that 2022 will bring the spread of new innovations to tackle the many challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to all children, families, …
by Kristen C. Wilcox & Deborah Larrabee 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 com bination with improvement …
by Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin Educators in rural schools, like in other school contexts (Kerner & Hall, 2009; Sorensen & Fleming, 2004), are increasingly expected to use relevant research to guide school and district improvements and show measurable …
By Jessie Tobin, Lisa Yu, & Kristen C. Wilcox In this blog, we highlight one of the six principles of Improvement Science; being problem-focused and user-centered. We connect it to NYKids improvement work and research with a few suggested strategies …
By April Prestipino Tools on Principal Leadership Actions In the 2012-2013 school year, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) deployed the Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness (DTSDE), to support low-performing schools (e.g., Focus Schools or Priority Schools) …