Where Does Bread Come From? Taking Bank Street Abroad…
posted by Liezel de La Isla ‘99, Prague International School teacher For the past few years, I have been developing a curriculum on Bread and Bakeries with my colleagues at the International School of...
View ArticleBefore All Else, Children Must Feel Safe and Be Safe. So the Administration...
posted by Meghan Dunn ’08, 3rd grade teacher, Brooklyn I have been teaching at a low-income school in Bedford-Stuyvesant for the past five years. In that time I have born witness to, and unfortunately...
View ArticleCurriculum Maps, An Audubon Sanctuary, & Penguins Who Fly
posted by Alisa Algava ‘08, leader of a small Hudson Valley progressive school “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” ~Herman Melville “Be like the bird in flight . . . pausing a while on...
View ArticleCulminating Exhibitions and Real-life Learning
posted by Alisa Algava ‘08, leader of a small Hudson Valley progressive school The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a...
View ArticleIt’s Earth Month: Classrooms Convincing Communities to Cut Phone Book Waste
posted by Ted Wells ‘07, 4th grade teacher at The Park School, Brookline, MA Are you a 5th to 10th grade teacher who’s annoyed by the 540 million yellow phone books littering our doorsteps each year?...
View ArticleHow Museum Design “Taught” a School
Bank Street alumna Jo Ann Secor ’88 is principal and director of museum services at Lee H. Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership, New York. Read Learning Curve, an article by Jo Ann Secor and...
View ArticleVolunteer Opportunity at Harlem Hospital
It’s 4:30pm and I haven’t finished my To-Do list for the day. Well, that’s not even entirely true- I haven’t finished it, but it’s because I didn’t have a chance to get it out of my bag. On the plus...
View ArticleFaculty Respond to NY Times Block Play Story
On November 28, the New York Times published an article discussing the importance of block play in early childhood education. As long-time advocates of open-ended play, Bank Street faculty submitted a...
View ArticlePowerful Interactions
By Judy Jablon and Amy Laura Dombro Teachers matter. What they decide to say and do each day as they interact with children (or don’t) guides children’s development and learning in all domains. For...
View ArticleA Student Teacher’s Journey: Follow this Blog
Follow current Bank Street grad student Karen Hawkins on her student teacher journey http://studentteacher44.blogspot.com/
View ArticleSurvival Skills and Strategies for New Teachers
By Otis Kriegel, 2000 Bank Street graduate It was great to be back at Bank Street, speaking to recent alumni, current students and professors. I hope to return again soon. If you missed my workshop,...
View ArticleSeeking Advice on Curriculum for Mixed Age Classroom
I am a Bank Street Alum, and have been in the classroom for over ten years teaching elementary ed and some preschool. Next year I will find myself in an alternative, mixed age program with children...
View ArticleSocial Skills and Technology in the Classroom
By Amelia Clune , 2011 I have been thinking recently about how new technologies are changing the way individuals socialize, particularly the parallels between the ways in which children enjoy...
View ArticleTodd Sutler’s Dialogue With Deborah Meier
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ Read more of Todd Sutler’s dialogue with visionary educator Deborah Meier on Meier’s Education Week Bridging Differences blog. Sutler, a 2010 Bank...
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