News & Resources

Tracy Fray-Oliver, Senior Associate Vice President of the Bank Street Education Center, was featured in a New York School Talk blog post titled “In Yonkers, Teacher Leaders Are ‘The Unit Of Change’: A Report From the Field.” In the post, she reflects on the Education Center’s work with Yonkers Public Schools focused on helping more Black, Latinx, and low-income students successfully complete 8th grade math. Read the blog post

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. Read the op-ed

Emily Sharrock, Associate Vice President, Strategy & New Program Development in 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 in New Haven, CT. Read the blog post

Doug Knecht, Executive Director of the Bank Street Education Center, published the article “Schooling For and With Democracy,” in the Spring 2018 issue of Schools: Studies in Education, a University of Chicago publication. Read the Article (pdf)

Tracy Fray-Oliver, Senior Associate Vice President of the Bank Street Education Center, and Josh Thomases, former Bank Street Dean, co-authored an op-ed in SmartBrief titled “Walking the Walk,” which highlights the Education Center’s work supporting four urban school districts in New York State to improve instruction. Read the op-ed

Doug Knecht, Executive Director of the Bank Street Education Center, was featured in an Education Week blog post called “Creating Coherence: Central Office to Teacher Teams and Their Students.” In the post, he discusses how to promote coherent education systems in which everything works together to support teachers and students. Read the blog post

Doug Knecht, Executive Director of the Bank Street Education Center, was featured on an episode of the Student-Centered Learning Podcast, discussing why it is important for school systems hoping to implement student-centered learning be coherent in terms of systems, structures, and culture. Listen to the podcast

Becoming a System of Professional Learning: Conceptualizing Improvement as a Throughline of Learning
This publication introduces the “Throughline of Learning” model developed by the Bank Street Education Center. The model builds on the concept of the instructional core and demonstrates how focusing on system-wide adult learning needs can help districts successfully reimagine their approach to instructional improvement.

Tracy Fray-Oliver Presents at Gates Foundation Networks for School Improvement Convening
This video presentation by Tracy Fray-Oliver, Associate Vice President of the Bank Street Education Center, details the Education Center’s first year of work with Yonkers Public Schools to help more Black, Latinx, and low-income students successfully complete 8th grade math.

Implementing NH ChILD: A Comprehensive Approach to Professional Learning to Reach All New Haven Early Childhood Educators (pdf)This report outlines the beliefs, commitments, and plan for action with respect to NH ChILD’s citywide efforts for in-service professional learning for adults working with children ages 0-8, which serves as a model for systems-level professional learning.

Coaching: How a Focus on Adult Development Leads to Improvements in Student Learning (pdf)
This publication documents the professional learning processes, tools, and activities used by Bank Street facilitators in their coaching work with teachers and leaders and brings to light what strengths-based, developmentally meaningful teaching and learning looks like for both adults and children.

District-Wide Instructional Initiative Framework (pdf)
This booklet provides educators with a closer look at how four school system components can contribute to supporting effective improvement strategies at scale: leadership vision and commitment, change management structures, intentional and adult learning experiences, and evidence-based and student-focused decision making.

Throughline of Teaching and Learning Overview (pdf)
In our school system partnerships, we strive to create a “throughline” from central offices to classrooms that promotes professional learning at the central, school leadership, and teacher team levels.

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