Bank Street Education Center Publications

Resources and materials that help practitioners and communities shift their approach toward culturally responsive, strength-based systems and practices.

Battle Over How to Teach Race and Racism in America’s Schools
Discusses teaching about race and racism s part of anti-racist efforts in schools.
[News segment featuring Takiema Bunche Smith, GSE ’97, in ABC News]

Never Too Young To Support A Cause: Supporting Positive Identity Development Through Social Justice Curriculum in Preschool (pdf)
Outlines strategies to foster positive identity development in preschoolers through social justice curriculum.

Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Highlights the goals and impact of the Black Lives Matter at School movement in advancing educational justice.

New York City Pre-K Leadership Study (pdf)
Shares findings from a study of NYC pre-K leaders, highlighting how they support teachers and what factors enable or hinder efforts to improve learning for all children.

The Center on Culture, Race & Equity: A Case Study on Systemic Change (video)
Explores the Center’s partnership with DC Public Schools to address educational disparities affecting African American boys.

Community Empowerment and Change in Early Childhood: Education Diplomacy Within a United States Context
Discusses the importance of a child’s earliest years and the need to improve early childhood programs and services for marginalized populations.

All Hands In Interactive Resource Guide 2017 (pdf)
Provides tools to support authentic family engagement among parents, educators, and community leaders in pre-K settings, created in partnership with the Highbridge Advisory Council and BronxWorks.

Providing a Head Start: Improving Access to Early Childhood Education for Refugees
Examines barriers and solutions to expanding early childhood education access for refugee children.

Models, guides, and insights aimed at strengthening the early childhood workforce, improving compensation, and advancing equity in care and education.

Paths Forward to Salary Parity for New York: National Models for Equity in Early Childhood Education Compensation
Highlights examples of compensation reform across the country and explores ideas for New York to reduce turnover, improve job quality, and create a more equitable child care system.

A Snapshot of ECE Apprenticeship Programs
Offers a closer look at apprenticeship programs, including credentials, partnerships, funding, and mentoring approaches, based on Bank Street’s Apprenticeship Action Research Fellowship and national surveys.

Opportunities for Reflective Practice in Early Childhood Apprenticeships
Provides insights on designing systems of high-quality job-embedded support for residency or apprenticeship programs, intended for early childhood leaders.

Cultivating Powerful Mentorship in Educator Credential Programs
Explores Bank Street’s mentorship approach and lessons learned, featuring interviews with Graduate School faculty members.

Career Pathways and Wage Ladders: A Key Opportunity for Improving Quality (pdf)
Examines how career pathways and wage ladders serve as foundations for transformative change in the early care and education workforce, highlighting opportunities presented by the Build Back Better Act.

Establishing Early Care & Education As a Public Good
Outlines principles for policy design to guide investments that center equity and access in early care and education.

Designing Early Childhood Educator Residency/Apprenticeship Programs: A Guide to Estimating Costs
Supports states and communities in understanding design and cost considerations for high-quality residency and apprenticeship programs.

Realizing the Promise of Early Educator Apprenticeships
Presents recommendations for rebuilding the workforce with equity at the center, highlighting apprenticeships as effective tools for improvement.

Equitable Compensation for the Child Care Workforce: Within Reach and Worth the Investment
Identifies mechanisms to advance early educator compensation reforms at local, state, and federal levels.

Rebuilding the Early Care & Education System With Equity at the Center
Offers five recommendations for states and policy leaders to redesign the early care and education system post-COVID-19, focusing on equity.
[Op-ed by Brandy Lawrence, Emily Sharrock, and Joe Waters in Capita]

Investing in the Birth-to-Three Workforce: A New Vision to Strengthen the Foundation for All Learning
Provides a roadmap for policy reform, including residency programs and improved compensation for infant/toddler educators.

Early Childhood Preservation
Highlights the low pay of early childhood teachers and references Bank Street’s white paper “Investing in the Birth-to-Three Workforce: A New Vision for the Foundation of All Learning.”

Maximizing Every Child’s Potential in the First 1,000 Days of Life: A Landscape Analysis
Explores interconnected issues to level the playing field for children during the first 1,000 days of life.

How to End the Child-Care Crisis
Summarizes the nation’s early child care crisis and outlines immediate next steps to improve quality of care for the youngest children.
[Op-ed by Shael Polakow-Suransky, GSE ’00, President of Bank Street College, in the New York Times]

Implementing NH ChILD: A Comprehensive Approach to Professional Learning to Reach All New Haven Early Childhood Educators (pdf)
Outlines citywide professional learning efforts for adults working with children ages 0-8 in New Haven.

New Haven is Showing What’s Possible When We Invest in Kids Early
Explores how the New Haven Children’s Ideal Learning District partnership is working to transform the early care and education landscape of New Haven, CT.
[Op-ed by Emily Sharrock in Education Post]

New Haven Children’s Ideal Learning District 
Hosts the official website for the New Haven Children’s Ideal Learning District initiative transforming the city’s early care and education landscape.

Thought leadership and research focused on improving math outcomes for students.

Students’ Math Outcomes Have Plummeted. Here’s What to Do
Outlines urgent needs and three key strategies to redesign math education and improve learning outcomes.
[Op-ed by Tracy Fray-Oliver in EdWeek]

Reports, resources, and multimedia materials supporting system-wide instructional improvement and professional learning.

Investing in Mentorship Can Help the Teacher Retention Crisis
Examines how mentorship supports residents in training programs to bridge coursework and classroom experiences.
[Op-ed by Emily Sharrock in eSchoolNews]

Building Meaning Builds Teens’ Brains
Presents research linking adolescent learning to brain development.
[Op-ed by Doug Knecht and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang in Neuroscience]

S3:E7 — Bank Street’s Tracy Fray-Oliver on Supporting Change Across Complex Systems
Features a discussion on creating system change by engaging people at all system levels.

Becoming a System of Professional Learning: Conceptualizing Improvement as a Throughline of Learning
Introduces the “Throughline of Learning” model to help districts reimagine instructional improvement by focusing on adult learning needs.

Tracy Fray-Oliver Presents at Gates Foundation Networks for School Improvement Convening
Shares a presentation on Bank Street Education Center’s work with Yonkers Public Schools to increase math completion among Black, Latino, and low-income students.

Coaching: How a Focus on Adult Development Leads to Improvements in Student Learning (pdf)
Documents professional learning processes and tools used in coaching to illustrate strengths-based teaching and learning for adults and children.

District-Wide Instructional Initiative Framework (pdf)
Provides an overview of four key school system components that support large-scale instructional improvement.

Why Science Says School is Boring
Suggests why children find school boring and how we can engage them more effectively in the classroom.
[Op-ed by Doug Knecht, Shael Polakow-Suransky, GSE ’00, and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang in EdWeek]

Structures & Supports: Building a Throughline Approach to District Reform (pdf)
Analyzes Bank Street Education Center’s work in urban districts through case studies and lessons learned.

Schooling For and With Democracy
Shares perspectives on education from Bank Street’s Doug Knecht.
[Op-ed by Doug Knecht in the Spring 2018 issue of Schools: Studies in Education, a University of Chicago publication]

Walking the Walk
Highlights the Education Center’s work supporting four urban school districts in New York State to improve instruction.
[Op-ed by Tracy Fray-Oliver and Josh Thomases in SmartBrief]

Creating Coherence: Central Office to Teacher Teams and Their Students
Discusses how to promote coherent education systems in which everything works together to support teachers and students.
[Op-ed by Doug Knecht in EdWeek]