by Jessie Tobin & Lisa Graham-Donato The NYKids team wishes everyone a wonderful start to the new year! To gear up for the year ahead we are taking a trip down memory lane and reflecting on our audience engagement in …
By Adrienne Leon, APR, Director of Engagement & Development Services at Capital Region BOCES At 3 p.m. on March 12, 2020, a group of 24 school superintendents from the greater Capital Region and their teams met on a conference call. …
by Jessie Tobin and Kristen C. Wilcox In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) published data on youth reading assessments showing a dip in test scores among nine-year-old students. These data were especially alarming for students with disabilities …
by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox “Emotions are at the heart of teaching” – Hargreaves (2001, p. 835) Teaching goes far beyond simply “delivering” content to learners but is intimately linked with emotions. As education scholar Hargreaves’ quote suggests, …
by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox Recent NYKids blogs have explored findings from our latest report, “Opportunities and Challenges to Adapt and Innovate: How Educators Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The research drew on interviews and focus groups with 88 …
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 inquiry we pursued was …
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 been exacerbated by the …
by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox Two years in at the time of this writing, the far-reaching and profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are not fully understood. Emerging research suggests that the pandemic has exacerbated already existing inequalities …
By, Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin, Maria Khan, and Kristen C. Wilcox NYKids recently finished the first phase of our study entitled “Discovering Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce” in which we surveyed over 900 educators across New …
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 …