About Us

The Home-School Connections Research Team is housed in the Department of Applied Psychology within New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Following a partnership-based model, the investigations stemming from the team address the socio-cultural contexts of early child development. We investigate the ways daily adult-child interactions both at home and at school shape young children’s development of school readiness skills, and in particular their language, early literacy, and socioemotional skills.

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Funded by the Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education and the Brady Educational Foundation, the Reading Success Using Co-Constructive Elaborative Storytelling Strategies (R-SUCCESS) project seeks to improve the reading readiness of Latine and African heritage children from low-income families through a teacher-focused oral storytelling intervention that capitalizes on the cultural forms of narrative Latine and African heritage children bring into the preschool classroom.