We are grateful to the members of our NYKids Advisory Board who gathered on December 8th for our annual meeting. Their dedication to supporting NYKids in providing relevant research and improvement resources for educators across New York State is invaluable. …
On this week’s Deep Dive episode, NYKids Research Assistant, Jessie Tobin, interviews Dr. Dawn Anderson-Butcher from Ohio State University (OSU). Dr. Anderson-Butcher is a Professor in the College of Social Work at OSU, and her areas of expertise are positive …
We’re excited to announce the latest episode of our podcast, where we dive deep into the world of student performance data with two brilliant minds: Doug Fulton and Suzanne Smith. In this episode, we explore the NYKids Performance Tracker, a powerful tool designed …
by, Kristen C. Wilcox The International Congress for School Improvement and Effectiveness (ICSEI) is a venue for those committed to the ICSEI three-decade old mission “to empower school effectiveness and improvement” by providing opportunities such as the Congress for networking …
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 In a prior NYKids blog, we described how Improvement science (IS) serves as a resource for school and district leaders and staff to organize their improvement efforts around high leverage actions (i.e. those actions most likely …