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On April 5th, the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street hosted its annual awards ceremony to celebrate the winners of the Josette Frank Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and the Claudia Lewis Award. Presented each year by the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature, the three awards recognize outstanding ...

For young children, the hospital can be a scary place. When children and families are facing medical trauma, such as an impending surgery or the effects a chronic illness, child life specialists use play to help children express their thoughts and feelings, process information, move away from danger and toward ...

New findings released by social policy and research organization MDRC show that aligned math-focused interventions in pre-K and kindergarten reduce the achievement gap. Researchers examined the impact of two New York City public school programs—Making Pre-K Count, which supported the implementation of high-quality math curriculum in preschools, and High 5s, ...

Every year for the last 3 years, Bank Street has hosted the Safe and Sound School Conference, a day of collaboration that invites professionals from elementary schools and early childhood programs to engage in a deeply interactive study of emotionally responsive practice. At this year’s conference held on December 8, ...

On November 7, Bank Street welcomed authors Deborah Meier and Emily Gasoi to discuss the urgency around protecting the democratic spirit in public schools, which is the premise of their new book, These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can’t Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools. The conversation ...

This past year, the Center on Culture, Race & Equity (CCRE) partnered with Highbridge Advisory Council, a Bronx-based community service organization, and BronxWorks, a human services organization and settlement house, to create the All Hands In Community Development Project, a community-based partnership designed to help improve educational outcomes for children ...

This November, the Learning Agenda, a grant-funded program at Bank Street charged with researching, documenting, and sharing Bank Street’s progressive educational practices with policymakers and practitioners, released its first public report titled “Structures and Supports: Building a Throughline Approach to District Partnerships." The report, which analyzes the Bank Street Education ...

On September 28, the Bank Street Writers Lab received a prestigious Mentorship Award at the 2017 Carle Honors Annual Benefit Gala and Art Auction held in New York City. The ceremony, which is hosted by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, celebrates individuals and organizations for their creative ...

On September 28, the Sustainable Funding Project (SFP) welcomed a full house of educators, policymakers, and community stakeholders to the “Hidden in Plain Sight: Possibilities for Funding High Quality Teacher Preparation” panel discussion to explore strategies for establishing yearlong co-teaching residencies for aspiring teachers. Designed to provide an opportunity for ...

The Bank Street Graduate School of Education is launching two new master’s degree programs in areas with the deepest need: Teaching Students with Disabilities 7-12 Generalist and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) pre-K-12. The first cohorts of graduate students will enter the new programs in the fall ...