Lily Steyer

Biographic Data

ID267248
NAMELily Steyer
GIVEN NAMESLily
FAMILY NAMESteyer
SIGNATURESTEYER L
AFFILIATIONSTurnaround for Children
ORCID0000-0002-5823-4681
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The School Discipline You Don’t See

    Open AccessRebecca Gleit, Lily SteyerARTICLEContexts2026

    Many schools have moved away from formal suspensions and expulsions, but more informal disciplinary practices have emerged in their place. Drawing on two school ethnographies, the authors describe these often-invisible practices and explain how they harm students and their families

  • Kindergarten Health and Absenteeism: Implications for Academic Achievement and Racial and Ethnic Disparities

    Open AccessLily Steyer, Javier Omar et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2026References: 58

  • Preschool dosage, outcomes, and mechanisms: Why are two years better than one

    Open AccessMeghan E Mcdoniel, Catie Connolly et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2025References: 4

  • The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping

    Open AccessCarolyn Aldwin, Maria Kurth et al.BOOKCambridge Handbook of the…2023

    Despite broad interest in how children and youth cope with stress and how others can support their coping, this is the first Handbook to consolidate the many theories and large bodies of research that contribute to the study of the development of coping. The Handbook's goal is field building - it brings together theory and research from across the spectrum of psychological, developmental, and related sciences to inform our understanding of coping…

  • Universal Screening of Hunger, Tiredness, and Sickness: Implications for Kindergarten Readiness and Racial/Ethnic Disparities

    Lily Steyer, Carrie Townley-Flores et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2023

    This study investigated associations of three teacher-reported health indicators—hunger, tiredness, and sickness—with kindergarten readiness skills in San Francisco Unified School District (N = 12,423; female = 48%; Mage = 5.47, SDage = 0.30, rangeage = 4.67–7.00; Asian American = 26%, Black = 5%, Latinx = 20%, Multiracial/Other = 23%, White = 18%). Research Findings: Accounting for demographic characteristics, each teacher-reported health indica…

  • Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis

    Open AccessF A Pearman, Rafael Fernández Aller et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2023Cited by: 1References: 54

    Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood has long been known to adversely affect children's academic achievement. Comparatively less is known about what happens to children's academic achievement when disadvantaged neighborhoods gentrify. This study uses data from a nationally representative sample of children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (n = 1,163) along with counterfactual methods and a value-added design to examine how gentrification…

  • Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco

    Open AccessMichael J Sulik, Carrie Townley-Flores et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2022Cited by: 2References: 6

  • Has the Opioid Crisis Affected Student Learning? A National Analysis of Growth Rates

    Open AccessJessica Drescher, Lily Steyer et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2022Cited by: 1References: 51

    The potential spillover effects of the United States’ opioid epidemic on children’s educational outcomes have received surprisingly little attention from researchers. Accordingly, this study leverages national datasets of county-level opioid prescription rates and public school students’ third- to eighth-grade academic achievement to provide the first analysis of associations between community opioid prevalence and children’s learning rates. We f…

  • Drivers of human development: How relationships and context shape learning and development 1

    Open AccessDavid Osher, Pamela Cantor et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2020

    This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macroand micro-contexts - poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers - in supporting and/or undermining the healthy development of children and youth, using a relational developmental systems framework. Relationships with parents, siblings, peers, caregivers, and teachers are explored in the context of early care and childhood settings, schools, classrooms, an…

  • Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context 1

    Open AccessPamela Cantor, David Osher et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2019

    This article synthesizes foundational knowledge from multiple scientific disciplines regarding how humans develop in context. Major constructs that define human development are integrated into a developmental system framework, this includes—epigenetics, neural malleability and plasticity, integrated complex skill development and learning, human variability, relationships and attachment, self-regulation, science of learning, and dynamics of stress…