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A Study Of Gordon Klopf: Bank Street Distinguished Specialist In Leadership Development, Fredda Pravitz Jul 1985

A Study Of Gordon Klopf: Bank Street Distinguished Specialist In Leadership Development, Fredda Pravitz

Graduate Student Independent Studies

A study is made of Gordon J. Klopf, the educator, focusing on the years that he has been at Bank Street. His approach, method and style of working with adult learners are examined, from the time he left Teacher's College in the 1960's to come to work at Bank Street. The role that he played in developing various programs is discussed as well as the effect that his teaching has had on the personal and professional development of educational staff at all levels. A professional biographical statement is included as an appendix.


School Leadership And Change: Bank Street Graduates And Their Approaches To Change Within Public, Independent, And Alternative School Settings, Susan Vaughan Mcclintic May 1985

School Leadership And Change: Bank Street Graduates And Their Approaches To Change Within Public, Independent, And Alternative School Settings, Susan Vaughan Mcclintic

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Follows three principals who are graduates of Bank Street College of Education's leadership program.


A Study Of Olga Smyth, Director, High Valley School: 1934 Graduate Of Bank Street, Deborah Stone Jul 1984

A Study Of Olga Smyth, Director, High Valley School: 1934 Graduate Of Bank Street, Deborah Stone

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A study is made of the educator Olga Smyth, 1934 graduate of Bank Street. Examins her particular style of working with children, and what it is based on in her history, education, and personality. The continuity of her work and the consistency of her approach is shown, from her days at Bank Street through the making of "Incitement to Reading" (film by L. J. Stone showing her teaching first graders at the Poughkeepsie Day School in the 1950's) to her work at her own school with children whose emotional and learning problems make it impossible for them to succeed in …


Once A Teacher: Biography Of Mildred L. Johnson Edwards, Black Educator, Juanita Isabel Coleman Jul 1977

Once A Teacher: Biography Of Mildred L. Johnson Edwards, Black Educator, Juanita Isabel Coleman

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This biography for 8 to 13 year old children describes Mildred L. Johnson Edward's life as a student - one of the few black children at the Ethical Culture Schools for many years, her unsuccessful search for a student-teaching position in New York City's private schools, and her decision at the age of 20 to found a private school where she could give black children an alternative to the kind of public education they were being offered.