On Saturday, October 19, authors, illustrators, librarians, and other children’s literature professionals gathered at Bank Street College for the 10th annual BookFest, an event hosted by the Center for Children’s Literature to celebrate, discover, and inspire thought-provoking discussions on books for children and teens. This year, the sounds of a Native American flute filled the […]
Freshly hung paintings line the walls alongside a daily schedule and classroom jobs display. A young child builds with Legos while another plays with sand at the sensory table. It’s a typical September morning at Bank Street Head Start and the young students here are fully immersed in discovering new materials, settling into their routines, […]
This summer, the Graduate School of Education partnered with the Center for Children and Technology, an educational research and development organization at the Education Development Center (EDC), to host two week-long Math for All Facilitator Institutes in Illinois. The professional development program is designed to help schools and districts make high-quality K-5 math instruction accessible […]
As part of the School for Children’s five-year strategic plan to strengthen science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) programming, Bank Street has partnered with educational innovator The GIANT Room to launch the 2019-20 Scholar-In-Residence Program, a new initiative to enhance and integrate STEAM throughout the School for Children curriculum and across all grades. Led […]
The new Bank Street Occasional Paper Series #42—”Promise in Infant-Toddler Care and Education”—launched today to highlight inequities in the early childhood field and explore how we can work toward designing and funding more meaningful care and education for our youngest children. In the interview below, Guest Editors Sharon Ryan and Virginia Casper provide additional insight […]
On Tuesday, September 3, a new cohort of graduate students flooded into Bank Street’s halls for their first day of the 2019-20 school year. After a full day of orientation activities, the Graduate School held its annual Barbara Biber Convocation, the centerpiece of orientation and an annual opportunity for the College community to engage with […]
On July 16, Tracy Fray-Oliver, Senior Associate Vice President, Bank Street Education Center, presented a recap on the School System Partnerships and Programs (SSPP) team’s first year of work with Yonkers Public Schools at the Gates Foundation Networks for School Improvement convening. The center’s partnership with the city helps more Black, Latino, and low-income students […]
This spring, the Bank Street Bookstore launched its new Monthly Book Subscription program to help bring new children’s and young adult books straight to your doorstep. For an annual fee of $150, bookstore experts carefully select and mail a newly released book each month to a child’s home address. Titles are chosen based on each […]
Every year, public elementary and secondary schools welcome nearly 700,000 additional students—all with a range of learning styles and diverse needs. Meanwhile, schools and districts across the country are facing teacher shortages in many areas and need qualified educators who know how to effectively teach the children in their classrooms. As part of an overall […]
This June, the Bank Street School for Children (SFC) participated in a training on restorative practices, an approach that centers on building community through strengthening relationships between individuals and groups and repairing relationships after conflict and challenges have occurred. Led by the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP), 45 faculty and staff members from the […]
Bank Street College of Education is dedicated to advancing the human rights of every person, as defined under international law. Drawing on our collective knowledge of children and our 100-year history as their advocates, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the conditions in which children detained by the Departments of Homeland Security and Heath and Human […]
This Spring, Bank Street Graduate School of Education announced a partnership with Learning Policy Institute to launch Educator Preparation Laboratory (EdPrepLab), a new initiative to harness the collective strengths of exemplary preparation programs around the country. This initiative builds upon excellence in educator preparation in order to help ensure that new teachers and leaders can […]
On May 7, the Center on Culture, Race & Equity at Bank Street College and the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) launched a new report titled “New York City Pre-K Leadership Study” to examine how early childhood instructional leaders from both community and school settings work to support teachers’ practices, strengthen program quality, […]
This spring, the Bank Street Graduate School of Education received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to support a five-year renewal of Kress Fellowships in Museum Leadership. Renewing in July, the Fellowship supports enrollment in Bank Street’s Leadership in Museum Education Program for one incoming student and one continuing student annually through June […]
The Graduate School of Education announced the addition of the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), a non-partisan public policy research organization dedicated to improving the lives of low-income children and their families. Under the auspices of Bank Street, NCCP will continue conducting original family-oriented research and translating it into actionable recommendations that advocates, […]