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A School Growing Roots: The Bank Street Developmental-Interaction Approach At Community Roots Charter School, Ira Lit, Sam Intrator Jan 2015

A School Growing Roots: The Bank Street Developmental-Interaction Approach At Community Roots Charter School, Ira Lit, Sam Intrator

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This case study examines the efforts of a recently established public charter school in a diverse urban neighborhood in Brooklyn to create a school guided by the foundational principles of the Bank Street approach. The efforts to infuse the practice and approach of the school with a progressive ethos is set against the prevailing trend to create schools that deploy highly systematic and didactic pedagogies. The case study begins by describing the rich learning that transpired during a study of the Fort Greene neighborhood undertaken by Community Roots first graders. The study explores the interactions between people in the community …


Learning To Play, Playing To Learn: The Bank Street Developmental Interaction Approach In Liliana's Kindergarten Classroom, Soyoung Park, Ira Lit Jan 2015

Learning To Play, Playing To Learn: The Bank Street Developmental Interaction Approach In Liliana's Kindergarten Classroom, Soyoung Park, Ira Lit

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This case study of Liliana presents a portrait of a Bank Street alumna in her classroom. Liliana strives for her classroom to be a space where the core principles she learned during her Bank Street education guide the experience of children. The study of her work begins by exploring how a commitment to educating the cognitive, physical, and social–emotional domains of the whole child involves developing systems that promote play as the learning tool to achieve academic and social outcomes. After exploring how Liliana creates conditions for children to engage and learn through play, the case study focuses on how …


Artful Teaching And Learning: The Bank Street Developmental-Interaction Approach At Midtown West School, Sam Intrator, Soyoung Park, Ira Lit Jan 2015

Artful Teaching And Learning: The Bank Street Developmental-Interaction Approach At Midtown West School, Sam Intrator, Soyoung Park, Ira Lit

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This case study begins by examining the Theater Study, a yearlong integrated social studies unit that serves as a cornerstone of the first grade curriculum at MidtownWest. As Midtown West is located in the heart of Manhattan’s theater district, the study is both an investigation of community and an in-depth exploration of, and engagement in, the many facets that go into the production of a play—from story, to script writing, to the many indispensable jobs, such as creating sets, lighting, and acting. The case study then turns to the “centrality of meetings” and the importance of meaningful discourse as a …


The Threads They Follow: Bank Street Teachers In A Changing World, Linda Darling-Hammond, Ira Lit Jan 2015

The Threads They Follow: Bank Street Teachers In A Changing World, Linda Darling-Hammond, Ira Lit

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This report focuses on graduates of Bank Street College Graduate School of Education teacher certification programs, by examining the quality of their preparation, their teaching practices upon graduation, and the influence they have on their students’ learning. It also looks at the cumulative effects of school-wide practices at schools supportive of the Bank Street approach. The results conveyed here are based on the combined analyses of extensive surveys of graduates and employers; large-scale administrative data related to the impact of program graduates on pupil learning in New York City public schools; in-depth classroom and school observations; and interviews of graduates, …


The Preparation, Professional Pathways, And Effectiveness Of Bank Street Graduates, Eileen Horng, Xinhua Zheng, Ira Lit, Linda Darling-Hammond Jan 2015

The Preparation, Professional Pathways, And Effectiveness Of Bank Street Graduates, Eileen Horng, Xinhua Zheng, Ira Lit, Linda Darling-Hammond

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Documents the influence of Bank Street teacher preparation programs based upon surveys of graduates, surveys of comparison teachers, surveys of employers, and an analysis of pupil achievement gains. This report is part of a larger study that examines the preparation, practices, and effectiveness of graduates of Bank Street College teacher certification programs over the last decade.


Strengthening Nyc Middle-Grades Learning In & Out Of School: Five Recommendations To The Mayor, Partnership For After School Education, Ford Foundation, Bank Street College Of Education Jun 2014

Strengthening Nyc Middle-Grades Learning In & Out Of School: Five Recommendations To The Mayor, Partnership For After School Education, Ford Foundation, Bank Street College Of Education

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A paper urging Mayor de Blasio and his team to consider insights and recommendations about middle-grades learning in New York City. Moving away from outdated assumptions about adolescence and schooling, this work suggests and expands upon the following:

1. Reframe middle-grades learning as a community responsibility.

2. Focus accountability on student learning and development in and out of school.

3. Strengthen middle-grades schools as centers of youth development.

4. Incentivize innovative designs.

5. Prepare and support a range of adults to foster middle-grades learning in and out of school.


Small Schools: Great Strides, A Study Of New Schools In Chicago, Patricia A. Wasley, Michelle Fine, Matt Gladden, Nicole E. Holland, Sherry P. King, Esther Mosak, Linda C. Powell Jan 2000

Small Schools: Great Strides, A Study Of New Schools In Chicago, Patricia A. Wasley, Michelle Fine, Matt Gladden, Nicole E. Holland, Sherry P. King, Esther Mosak, Linda C. Powell

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This book documents a two-year study and analysis of small schools in Chicago. Using a mixed-method study, gathering both quantitative and qualitative data, the research serves to compare results to previous studies of small urban schools.The study examines the effects of small schools on students, parents, teachers, and community members. Both previous and current research suggest that small school size is correlated with an increase in student attendance, performance, and better sense of community overall.


A Brief History: Bank Street College Of Education, Patricia Fisher, Anne Perryman Jan 2000

A Brief History: Bank Street College Of Education, Patricia Fisher, Anne Perryman

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Documents in brief fashion the Bank Street College of Education from it's earliest days as the Bureau of Educational Experiments to the present.


Rights & Responsibilities: My Years At Bank Street, John H. Niemeyer May 1998

Rights & Responsibilities: My Years At Bank Street, John H. Niemeyer

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"John H. Niemeyer served as president of Bank Street College of Education from 1955 through 1973. Attached are two sample chapters from a work in progress derived from conversations between John Niemeyer and Dick Greenspan. They discussed Bank Street's work during the tumultuous years of the 1950s and 1960s when civil rights and school integration were changing the face of American education." -- Title page.


The Challenge Of Small Schools: Selected Proceedings From The Bank Street College Of Education Third And Fourth Annual Conference On School Reform 1997-1998, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1998

The Challenge Of Small Schools: Selected Proceedings From The Bank Street College Of Education Third And Fourth Annual Conference On School Reform 1997-1998, Bank Street College Of Education

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Selected and adapted proceedings from the 1997 and 1998 Annual Conferences on School Reform at the Bank Street College of Education


Block Building: Opportunities For Learning, Harriet K. Cuffaro May 1995

Block Building: Opportunities For Learning, Harriet K. Cuffaro

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The learning opportunities available in block building, and the dramatic play accompanying it, are many and varied.


The Lucille N. Austin Memorial Lecture, October 10, 1995, Augusta Souza Kappner Jan 1995

The Lucille N. Austin Memorial Lecture, October 10, 1995, Augusta Souza Kappner

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Dr. Augusta Souza Kappner addresses the trends of the day in social welfare and education policy.


Barbara Biber Bodansky 1903-1993: A Life Observed And Recorded, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1995

Barbara Biber Bodansky 1903-1993: A Life Observed And Recorded, Bank Street College Of Education

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A book of anecdotes and remembrances from family, friends, and colleagues of Barbara Biber.


Young Geographers: How They Explore The World And How They Map The World [4th Ed.], Lucy Sprague Mitchell Jan 1991

Young Geographers: How They Explore The World And How They Map The World [4th Ed.], Lucy Sprague Mitchell

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"Lucy Sprague Mitchell's thesis is that through their own experiences children can learn geography, and that through geography children can learn about the human world."-- Foreward.


Charlotte Biber Winsor 1899-1982, Bank Street College Of Education May 1983

Charlotte Biber Winsor 1899-1982, Bank Street College Of Education

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A tribute to Charlotte Biber Winsor, faculty emeritus, Bank Street College of Education.


Approaches To Assessment [V.2], Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1980

Approaches To Assessment [V.2], Bank Street College Of Education

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"The following papers describe the more comprehensive components of the Bank Street analysis system [within the developmental-interaction approach]." -- p.3


Approaches To Teaching And Learning [V.1], Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1980

Approaches To Teaching And Learning [V.1], Bank Street College Of Education

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"In 1968, Bank Street College was invited, under the leadership of Elizabeth Gilkeson and Gordon Klopf, to join in the creation of the National Follow Through Program, an effort intended to sustain and extend the gains of Head Start for low income children. Bank Street's subsequent role as a sponsor offered an opportunity to extend knowledge, develop new tools for implementation and serve a diverse children population in many distant sites. The materials in the present volume grew out of Bank Street's efforts in this challenging program." -- Historical note, [p.2]


The Creative Process: A Symposium, Charlotte B. Winsor Jan 1976

The Creative Process: A Symposium, Charlotte B. Winsor

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A collection of papers encompassing an education conference about the creative process, in honor of Lucy Sprague Mitchell - founder of Bank Street College. The collection examines the creative process theoretically through psychodynamic and Piagetian viewpoints, as well as the effects of creativity on cognition and development. The works cover a large range of discussions on creativity and include an array of studio-workshop reports using music, food, needlework, and many more materials to stimulate creativity.


Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1878-1967: An Hour Of Remembrance, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1967

Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1878-1967: An Hour Of Remembrance, Bank Street College Of Education

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The family, students, colleagues and friends of Lucy Sprague Mitchell met together to remember the life and work of this distinguished educator, author and founder of the Bank Street College of Education who on October 15, 1967, died at the age of 89 at her home in Palo Alto, California.


Bank Street Profile: An Informal Report: 1916-1956, Bank Street College Of Education Jan 1957

Bank Street Profile: An Informal Report: 1916-1956, Bank Street College Of Education

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A report to the alumni and to the educational world about Bank Street forty years after its founding. Includes some of the important growths and developments of the past forty years, as described by some of the College staff members.

Edited and published by the Alumni of Bank Street College of Education, New York City.


Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Mary Phelps, Margaret Wise Brown Jan 1937

Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Mary Phelps, Margaret Wise Brown

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A short biography of Lucy Sprague Mitchell written around the time the Bank Street Writers Lab was established. Written by Writers Lab members Mary Phelps and Margaret Wise Brown.


Harriet M. Johnson: Pioneer 1867-1934, Lucy Sprague Mitchell Jan 1934

Harriet M. Johnson: Pioneer 1867-1934, Lucy Sprague Mitchell

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Harriet Johnson's life and work as described by her long time colleague Lucy Sprague Mitchell.