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Irma Black Award: 40 Years of Kids’ Favorite Picture Books

Posted by Nick Gray on Apr 2012

Each year, the Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Irma Black Award) goes to an outstanding book for young children—a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black ...

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Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Instruction in Progressive Education

Posted by Dara Eisenstein on Apr 2012

On March 29, 2012, Karina Otoya-Knapp of the Bank Street College's Graduate School of Education was invited for a second time to be a discussant at NYU’s Annual International Education Doctoral Conference: Advancing Global Education in Austere Times. In her panel discussion, panelists from across the country offered a comparative ...

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Helping the Lorax Speak for the Trees

Posted by Elisabeth Jakab on Apr 2012

Ted Wells, a 2007 graduate of Bank Street's Childhood General Education program, teaches 4th grade at the Park School in Brookline, MA, and his students are savoring a heady accomplishment: their petition campaign succeeded in getting an environmental education message onto the website for the

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More than a Number Educational Forum

Posted by Dara Eisenstein on Apr 2012

On February 15, 2012, according to Newsday “more than 800 teachers, school principals and others turned out at a Long Island forum to oppose the state's plans to start using student scores on state tests in rating educators' performance. The forum, entitled “More than a Number” organized and led by ...

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'Schooling' and 'Education' are Not Synonyms

Posted by Dara Eisenstein on Apr 2012

Four graduate students from Bank Street’s Leadership in Community-Based Learning Program (LCBL) presented original research at the annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education on February 25, 2012. Community Educators Bonnie Pauska, Clara Waloff, Tal Bar-Zemer, and Michael LoGuidice discussed projects completed ...

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Bank Streeters Come Out 'In Defense of Childhood'

Posted by Nick Gray on Apr 2012

Bank Street faculty and graduate students were out in force at the In Defense of Childhood conference on March 10, 2012, at City College. With a theme of “Keeping the Joy of Learning Alive,” the conference inspired participants to support children in their cultural contexts and to use inquiry-based learning ...

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The Career Services Office has had a busy spring semester!

Posted by Dara Eisenstein on Mar 2012

On Friday, January 27th, over 75 students and alum attended our annual Job Search and Support Day. Resume Writing Workshops were held at the beginning and at the end of the event to accommodate the hectic schedules of our students and alum. Alexis Wright, Dean of the SFC, Gil Schmerler, ...

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School Sponsored Emotionally Responsive Practice

Posted by Dara Eisenstein on Mar 2012

Six public schools have come together to sponsor joint professional development and consultation for staff members engaged in Emotionally Responsive Practice (ERP) in their classrooms. P.S. 38, P.S. 146, C.S. 66, P.S. 49, P.S. 306 and CPE 11 are a diverse group of schools who all previously participated in an ...

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Honorary Doctorate Recipient Bryan Stevenson on The Rachel Maddow Show

Posted by Dara Eisenstein on Mar 2012

Bryan Stevenson, who received an Honorary Doctorate from Bank Street College in 2005, appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday, March 27th. Bryan is the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama and a Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. Mr. ...

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2012 Upper School Science Expo

Posted by Katie Peshut on Mar 2012

On March 8, the Upper School (grades 5-8) held its annual Science Expo. The lobby, auditorium, and CDR were filled with a great variety of science projects and experiments. There were experiments such as: How can we measure the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid? How does the angle ...

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