NYS Commissioner of Education
David Steiner

NYSAAE is excited to announce that NYS Commissioner of Education David Steiner will be delivering the keynote address on Thursday, March 25th. Beginning his tenure last October, Dr. Steiner was formerly the Dean of the Hunter College School of Education at the City University of New York, Commissioner Steiner is best known for his leadership of the national effort to transform teacher preparation and improve teacher quality.

Prior to Hunter College, Dr. Steiner served as the Director of Arts Education at the National Endowment for the Arts where he designed and inaugurated the first national program to fund intensive teacher-preparation to present major, complex works of art in classrooms; strengthened assessment and accountability systems to evaluate learning outcomes in the NEA’s arts grants programs; and worked with Jazz at Lincoln Center to co-develop the Endowment’s first on-line jazz curriculum.

He is the author or editor of four books including the upcoming Retreat from Judgment: The Limits of Educational Reform and more than one hundred journal articles, papers, reports, chapters on education reform, teacher preparation, teacher quality and curriculum development as well as public presentations on education reform. He has worked as a consultant to the National Council on Teacher Quality and served as a member of the New York Board of Regents Work Group on Improving the Preparation of Teachers for Urban Schools.

Dr. Steiner has a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University and a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College at Oxford University. He is 51 years old and lives in Manhattan with his wife, Evelyne Ender, a professor of French at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

As Commissioner of Education, Steiner serves as chief executive officer of the State Education Department and as President of the University of the State of New York (USNY). USNY is comprised of more than 7,000 public and independent elementary and secondary schools; 270 public and independent colleges and universities; 7,000 libraries; 900 museums; 25 public broadcasting facilities; 3,000 historical repositories; 436 proprietary schools; 48 professions encompassing more than 761,000 licensees plus 240,000 certified educators; and services for children and adults with disabilities.

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The Keynote Address will take place on Thursday, March 25th at 9:00 AM.

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