By Aaron Leo, Jessie Tobin & Kristen C. Wilcox Youths’ Mental Health and Trauma during the Pandemic As documented in previous NYKids blogs, students’ mental health and social-emotional wellbeing has become a top priority for educators across the country. While …
By Maria I. Khan & Kristen C. Wilcox As we announced in a recent blog, the American Institutes of Research (AIR) Equity in Education initiative is supporting research-practice partnerships (including NYKids) to work on high leverage problems of practice focused …
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 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 …
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 Jessie Tobin, Aaron Leo, and Kristen C. Wilcox After a tumultuous couple of years, most students and staff have now returned to mostly in-person learning. Moving forward, one particular challenge facing school leaders and educators is an uptick in …
by Aaron Leo Falling rates of student attendance in districts across the country have drawn attention from educators and policymakers. In this blog we discuss the importance of school attendance, the potential reasons behind the declining rates, and measures which …
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 Aaron Leo, Kristen C. Wilcox, Lisa (Fang) Yu Introduction To gain a better understanding of educators’ experiences at work and feelings about their jobs, NYKids staff and research colleagues have designed and implemented a study to explore the effects …