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  Having It All : Lucy Sprague Mitchell and Wesley Clair Mitchell

  Patricia Auspos

  Describes Lucy Sprague Mitchell's life and marriage to Wesley Clair Mitchell.

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  Celebrating Bank Street's First 100 Years

  Hal Melnick and Robie Harris

  This book conveys in words and images the essence of Bank Street and the very real ways the institution approaches education for adults as well as for children from infancy through forever.

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  A Brief History: Bank Street College of Education

  Patricia Fisher and Anne Perryman

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

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  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

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

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  Rights & Responsibilities: My Years at Bank Street

  John H. Niemeyer

  "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.

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  Barbara Biber Bodansky 1903-1993: A Life Observed and Recorded

  Bank Street College of Education

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

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  Block Building: Opportunities for Learning

  Harriet K. Cuffaro

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

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  The Lucille N. Austin Memorial Lecture, October 10, 1995

  Augusta Souza Kappner

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

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  Young Geographers: How They Explore the World and How They Map the World [4th ed.]

  Lucy Sprague Mitchell

  "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.

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  Charlotte Biber Winsor 1899-1982

  Bank Street College of Education

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

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  Approaches to Assessment [v.2]

  Bank Street College of Education

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

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  Approaches to Teaching and Learning [v.1]

  Bank Street College of Education

  "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]

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  The Creative Process: A Symposium

  Charlotte B. Winsor

  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.

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  Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1878-1967: An Hour of Remembrance

  Bank Street College of Education

  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.

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  Language and Literature in Childhood

  Claudia Lewis

  This paper was presented at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of NCTE in Houston, Texas, November 1966.

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  Art in Kindergartens in Japan

  Lois Lord

  How does children's art develop in Japan? To search for some answers the author went to Japan to conduct a study sponsored by the New World Foundation.

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  Bank Street Profile: An Informal Report: 1916-1956

  Bank Street College of Education

  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.

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  Writing for Five-Year-Olds

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Describes how to write for young children, including their reality, what delights or saddens them, what they think about, why observing them will make you a better writer for them.

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  Lucy Sprague Mitchell

  Mary Phelps and Margaret Wise Brown

  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.

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  Harriet M. Johnson: Pioneer 1867-1934

  Lucy Sprague Mitchell

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