Margaret Caspe

Margaret Caspe, PhD, is an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Over the past 25 years, she has studied how partnerships among families, schools, and communities influence children’s development in a variety of areas, including language and literacy, and bilingualism, as well as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). She has worked with various organizations, including Mathematica Policy Research, Children’s Aid, and Harvard Family Research Project. Currently, she is a senior research consultant with the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) where she oversees an initiative to strengthen educator preparation for family engagement. She is an author of a variety of articles published in journals such as Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Public Library Quarterly, School Community Journal, Childhood Education, and Young Children. As an advisory member of various national collaboratives, she provides insights on the intersection of research, practice, and policy to promote innovative family engagement strategies. Margaret earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She lives in New Jersey.