Insights, Impact, and Innovationat NYU Steinhardt
We created the Insights, Impact, and Innovation newsletter to not only spotlight the NYU Steinhardt community, but also to explore how a strong community can have ripple effects beyond our School. Lately, I’ve felt encouraged by how our students, faculty, and alumni work to bridge divides, uplift underrepresented voices, and offer creative solutions to pressing needs throughout our country and world. I hope the stories in this final newsletter of the 2024–2025 academic year highlight just how vital—and impactful—community is.
On that note, if you’ll be in Denver for the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in April, I hope you'll join me for an evening of connection at the NYU Steinhardt Reception at AERA 2025 on Friday, April 25, from 7 to 9 p.m. MT. This is an opportunity to enjoy refreshments, connect across our respective communities, and, most of all, offer one another support and encouragement in the important work of education renewal.
Jack H. Knott
Gale and Ira Drukier Dean
NYU Steinhardt
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Screen Time News Captures Parents’ Attention Using a Combination of Science and Sensationalism
A new study by researchers from the Department of Teaching and Learning examined how articles about screen time resonated with parents. Articles combining attention-grabbing language with credible scientific framing were the most likely to garner immediate and long-term attention on social media.
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Occupational Therapy Faculty Start Home Accommodations Business
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Vocal Performance Professor Uses Voice Analysis to Help Solve Crimes
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Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, 8 – 10 p.m. ET Saturday, April 12, and Sunday, April 13, 3 – 5 p.m. ET
Set in interwar Vienna, Die Fledermaus follows Falke’s elaborate New Year’s Eve revenge on his friend Eisenstein.
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Friday, May 30, 8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Steinhardt Metro Center’s 2025 Equity Now Conference will showcase practical tools, policies, and research-backed strategies and practices for creating sustainable, equity-focused spaces, featuring a keynote address from educational luminary Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings.
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Alumni Spotlight
Leyland Simmons (MA ’17, Dance Education) serves as the artistic and dance director of Harlem School of the Arts (HSA), where he oversees performing arts departments as well as dance programming and partnerships. This year, for the first time in HSA’s history, he sent nine ballet students to the Youth America Grand Prix competition. Simmons also serves on the School of American Ballet’s Alumni Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and he was one of the first African Americans invited to the American Ballet Theater National Training Curriculum Board of Examiners.
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