The NYKids research team has long studied improvement to meet to educational challenges. The team has been busy this spring connecting with educators and sharing a host of research about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected schools, educators, parents and students, the use of improvement science in supporting continuous improvement, and the New York state teacher shortage.   

• “With a culmination of new and complex challenges in schools, and those challenges heightened by the pandemic, how a variety of stakeholders can be engaged in determining priorities, problem solving, and participating in leading change has become a topic of high interest.” Gain insight on strategies for empowering stakeholders through change from NYKids Director Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox and colleague Dr. Francesca Durand.
  
  

• Read NYKids study findings exploring the effects of the pandemic on educators’ efforts to engage families throughout New York State from the American Educational Research Association Conference 2023.
  
  

• Check out a poster summarizing research improvement work NYKids has connected as part of a collaboration with Tech Valley High School, Chatham City School District, and American Institutes for Research for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Summit 2023.
  
  

• "How we spread knowledge about improvement research in education and the use of improvement science in supporting continuous improvement (CI) efforts is of increasing importance as state and national policymakers rely more and more on CI to address long-standing opportunity and outcome gaps among youth in the U.S. and across the globe." Learn about the workshop on improvement science that Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox offered at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Summit 2023.
  
  

• Watch Dr. Kristen C. Wilcox and Dr. Aaron Leo discuss NYKids research related to the teacher shortage across New York state on WMHT’s New York NOW.
  
  

For more NYKids research, visit ny-kids.org.