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The Social Justice Storyteller: An Interview with Teacher Meghan Crosby (MA ’18)

A graduate of Steinhardt’s educational theatre program, Meghan Crosby brings the art of social justice storytelling to school children in New York City.

NYU Steinhardt Teacher Residency Continues to Expand Partnerships with NYC Charter School Summit

Leadership representatives from 10 New York City charter school organizations gathered last month to learn more about partnering with NYU Steinhardt as part of its innovative model for teacher prep, the Teacher Residency master of arts in teaching (MAT) program.
Areas of Study: Education

What We Are Learning: Causal Inference; Statistical Methods for Program Evaluation and Policy Research

Professor Jennifer Hill's course, Causal Inference, focuses on answering questions that take the form of ‘Did A cause B?” Those questions could range from figuring out whether a drug can cure cancer to understanding whether a Facebook post can change your political beliefs.

NYU Metro Center Continues Listening Project

Metro's Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH) kicks off their second year of the Listening Project with University Neighborhood Middle School.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New LPP Program Coordinator

Metro's Liberty Partnerships Program has welcomed a new Program Coordinator, Ms. Jasrin Jalal. Jasrin is a former NYU LPP tutor who graduated with a Masters in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from NYU, Steinhardt.

NYU Metro Center Releases CRE Film Series

Metro's Center for Strategic Solutions (CSS) and Center for Community Organizing and Engagement (COE) partnered with Filmmaker Manauvaskar Kublall to produce a Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) film series.

NYU Metro Center Receives Major Grant

Metro's Center for Community Organizing and Engagement (COE) Director Richard Gray recently recieved a Hewlett Foundation Grant for COE component, the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC).

NYU Metro Center Features International Autism Activist

Metro's ASD Nest Support Team recently hosted Eustacia Cutler at NYU's Kimmel Center. Ms. Cutler is an internationally recognized autism activist and the mother of Temple Grandin, an American professor of animal science at...

NYU Metro Center's College Planning Workshops Yield Positive Results

Metro's College Preparatory Academy (CPA), functions on the premise that persistent parental involvement is crucial to the academic and personal success of students.

Lifting As You Climb: An Interview with Jemar Bather (MS ’18), Applied Statistics

Jemar Bather is a biostatistics doctoral student and a HIV/AIDS Training Grant Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After earning a master’s degree from NYU Steinhardt’s Program in Applied Statistics for Social Science Research, he served as a research assistant in the Department of Biostatistics at the NYU College of Global Public Health, where he built statistical models to address health disparities in breast cancer, obesity, health literacy, and patient decision-making.
Areas of Study: Education

NYU Metro Center's Liberty Partnership Program Continues

Metro Center's Liberty Partnerships Program has been housed within Metro since its first award in 1995. LPP provides comprehensive services designed to meet the academic, psychological, social & other developmental needs....

NYU Metro Center Highlights Juvenile Justice Issues

NYU Metro Center Highlights Juvenile Justice Issues

Metro's ROSES Highlights Juvenile Justice Issues

Metro's ROSES project has been effectively working to highlight issues impacting girls who are pushed into involvement with the juvenile justice system.

NYU Metro Center Partners with SFUSD's Rooftop School

NYU Metro Center Partners with SFUSD's Rooftop School

NYC Elementary Schools Adopt Mindfulness

An article written in the Uptowner has featured Metro's Mindful Education Lab (MEL). A growing number of NYC Elementary schools are adopting meditation and mindfulness programs for their students and teachers.

NYC Elementary Schools Adopt Mindfulness

A growing number of NYC Elementary schools are adopting meditation and mindfulness programs for their students and teachers.

Ed Theatre Alum Receives Prestigious Jonathan Larson Grant

Educational Theatre alumna Emily Kaczmarek works as a playwright, bookwriter, screenwriter, performer, and teacher.
Areas of Study: The Arts

NYU Steinhardt Hosts A Conversation with Richard Carranza, NYC Schools Chancellor

Richard Carranza, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education (DOE), was the guest speaker at NYU Steinhardt’s Leadership Lens Series on October 17th. In a conversation with Lisette Nieves, the chancellor answered questions that ranged from information about the songs on his playlist (“mostly Mariachi”), to what he likes to see in a classroom (“curiosity and inspiration, rather than law and order“).
Areas of Study: Education

Voices of the Healing Arts: Three Therapists

At NYU Steinhardt, programs in art, music, and drama therapy teach students how to integrate psychotherapy and the arts into their practices and engage the creative power of art for clinical assessment and treatment. Here are the voices of three therapists in our community.
Areas of Study: Health

Helping Kids Learn and Lead: An Interview with Kaya Henderson; Former Chancellor, DC Schools

NYU Steinhardt kicked off its Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, with ‘What Will It Take?’, a talk by Kaya Henderson. Best known for the her role as former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools, Henderson has worked for three decades in schools, school districts, and international communities.
Areas of Study: Education