Bank Street Joins Next Generation Community Schools Program to Strengthen New York City Schools
In the News
- Tracy Fray Oliver, Vice President, Bank Street Education Center, authored an opinion piece in EdWeek about the urgent need to redesign math education and three key strategies for improving math learning today.
Students’ Math Outcomes Have Plummeted. Here’s What to Do - Tracy Fray-Oliver, Vice President, Bank Street Education Center, discusses creating system change by engaging people at all levels of the system in an HTH Unboxed podcast episode.
S3:E7 — Bank Street’s Tracy Fray-Oliver on Supporting Change Across Complex Systems - Takiema Bunche Smith, GSE ’97, Executive Director, Center on Culture, Race & Equity, discusses teaching about race and racism in an ABC News piece exploring anti-racist efforts in schools.
Battle Over How to Teach Race and Racism in America’s Schools - Bank Street Education Center partnered with Hidden Sparks organization to help support Jewish day school teachers prepare for the new school year amid COVID-19 challenges. The online summit, which focused on addressing students’ social and emotional needs, is highlighted in a Jewish Standard article.
Taking Students’ Emotions Seriously - In the wake of COVID-19, the Bank Street Education Center developed a set of five recommendations for states and policy leaders as they redesign our nation’s early care and education system with equity at the center. These recommendations are explored in a new essay published by Capita with additional perspectives featured in a recent Medium piece.
Rebuilding Child Care for a More Equitable Future in the Midst of COVID-19 - Doug Knecht, Vice President, Bank Street Education Center, co-authored an article with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang in Educational Leadership exploring new research on the connections between adolescents’ learning and brain development.
Building Meaning Builds Teens’ Brains - Tracy Fray-Oliver, Senior Associate Vice President of the Bank Street Education Center, was featured in a New York School Talk blog post reflecting on the first year of the center’s work with Yonkers Public Schools to help more Black, Latino, and low-income students complete 8th grade math. In Yonkers, Teachers Leaders Are “The Unit Of Change”: A Report From the Field.
- Shael Polakow-Suransky, GSE ’00, President of Bank Street College, penned an opinion piece summarizing our nation’s early child care crisis and outlining immediate next steps toward improving the quality of care provided to our country’s youngest children.
How to End the Child-Care Crisis - Emily Sharrock, Deputy Executive Director of the Bank Street Education Center, co-authored a blog post on Education Post on July 19, 2018 exploring how the New Haven Children’s Ideal Learning District partnership is working to transform the early care and education landscape of New Haven, CT. New Haven is Showing What’s Possible When we Invest in Kids Early
- Doug Knecht, Executive Director of the Bank Street Education Center, co-authored an opinion piece in Education Week with Bank Street President Shael Polakow-Suransky, GSE ’00, and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on why children find school boring and how we can engage them more effectively in the classroom.
Why Science Says School is Boring
