All Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations (Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations)

Bank Street Thinkers (College History and Archives)

Bank Street Thinkers is a collection of papers and lectures that explore Bank Street history, the concepts of teaching and teacher preparation, our long history of social studies teaching and curriculum development, the role of language and play in young children's growth, and a look at the meaning of competence in schools.

Books

Children's Book Committee (Center for Children's Literature)

The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming.

One of the most comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant-18. The Committee reviews over 6000 titles each year for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. It chooses the best 600 books, both fiction and nonfiction, which it lists with annotations, according to age and category.

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Bank Street College of Education graduate student independent studies.

Independent Studies (College History and Archives)

Included here are a select group of graduate student independent studies that highlight the Bank Street College's approach to progressive education

National Center for Children in Poverty (Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations)

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) aims to improve the lives of low-income children and their families.

NCCP conducts research and makes informed policy recommendations in order to reduce the number of American families experiencing hardship. Areas of focus include early childhood education, paid family leave, disability, immigration, physical and mental health, and more. As a result of the center’s decades-long work, children and families enduring the physical, mental, and emotional distress of poverty have a chance at a happier and healthier life.

Formerly located at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, NCCP officially joined the Bank Street Graduate School of Education on July 1, 2019.

Occasional Paper Series

ISSN 2375-3668

The Occasional Paper Series, published twice yearly, is a forum for work that extends, deepens and challenges the progressive legacy on which Bank Street College is built. The series seeks to promote discussion about what it means to educate in a democracy and to meet the interrelated demands of equity and excellence.

The series is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that subscribes to the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial CC BY-NC-ND license.

The Center for Children's Literature

The mission of the Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature is to create, identify, and advocate for the highest quality literature for all children from infancy through adolescence. We ensure that such literature is readily accessible to every child, and to foster in parents, educators, and policy makers a commitment to the principle that good literature is fundamental to literacy.

The components of the Center are the Children’s Book Committee, Irma Simonton and James H. Black Award, The Cook Prize, BookFest@ Bank Street, and the Writers Lab. The Center is housed in the Bank Street College Library.

The Cook Prize (Center for Children's Literature)

Presented for the first time in 2012, the Cook Prize is named in memory of two ground breaking Bank Street educators – Don Cook of the Graduate School of Education, and Michael Cook (no relation) of the School for Children. In naming this award, Bank Street not only honors Michael and Don for their intangible contributions to the world of education, but encourages excellence in publishing informational books on STEM topics for elementary-aged children.

Thought and Practice: (1987-1991) the Journal of the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education (College History and Archives)

Thought and Practice (1987-1991) is presented here to honor the history of Bank Street College of Education

Thought and practice. Each informs the other. In this new journal, Bank Street faculty, graduate students, and alumni reflect on the practice of teaching and learning. We hope you will enjoy our first issue, and that the entire Bank Street community will help shape future issues by sharing with us their thoughts and practices -- Lodema Burrows, Dean