By, Maria Khan, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox After all New York state schools shifted to remote instruction in March 2020, elementary school students were among the first to go back to in-person instruction. Most of these elementary school …
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 classrooms …
By Jessie Tobin More than one month into the 2021 – 2022 academic year, school personnel across the nation continue to grapple with pandemic-related challenges. One focus of attention is on the essential need to safely transport children and youth …
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 COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education Workforce …
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-19 pandemic has created what Dr. Robert Griffin, Dean and Professor …
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 Gayle Simidian, Ed.D., Research Analyst, New York State School Boards Association School-community partnerships are a form of educational resilience. These types of partnerships often fill a K-12 needs gap that may otherwise go unmet in school districts. The COVID-19 …
By Hal A. Lawson Nearly every day the news media tells compelling stories about the status of one or more school districts and presents prospects for a return to “school-as-usual”. Three priorities are featured. First is schools’ essential contributions to …
By Kristen C. Wilcox Like a tornado, COVID-19 has shown itself to be a somewhat unpredictable and dangerous force of nature. And as one storm chaser in the thriller “Twister” recommended while a tornado approached and debris starting flying through …
By Lisa Yu, Kristen C. Wilcox, Aaron Leo Agency has become a popular topic in the educational research literature as its enhancement has been viewed as a way to empower young people to act on their own and others’ behalf. …