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What is the Bank Street Family Center?

The Bank Street Family Center is an inclusive center that provides child-centered, developmentally appropriate, and culturally sensitive services and support for families of children age 6 months to 5 years. We offer a childcare program, special education services, and several grown-up and child playgroups.

Why choose Bank Street?

Serving children from preschool to 8th grade, Bank Street has earned a reputation as one of the country’s leading independent schools rooted in an innovative, progressive approach to education that is backed by more than a century of research and knowledge about how children learn best.

What is Bank Street Head Start?

Bank Street’s Head Start initiative began in 1964, shortly after the Civil Rights Act was passed. Earlier in 1964, Bank Street’s president, John H. Niemeyer, had been asked to work with Southern universities to create desegregation programs.

What is Bank Street for educators?

In this issue, we are moved by the powerful insights of scholars, teachers, educators, and parents, as well as five child contributors. Bank Street offers master’s degrees for educators and educational leaders and expert-led professional development opportunities.

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New Brief Explores Career Pathways and Wage Ladders for the Early Care and Education Workforce

The Build Back Better Act represents a possible historic investment in the early care and education system. As the field awaits its passage, Bank Street issued a policy brief to closely examine the potential of career pathways and wage ladders to serve as the foundation for transformative change for the early care and education workforce.

What We Do

Bank Street offers master’s degrees for educators and educational leaders and expert-led professional development opportunities.

Make a Gift

Your gift to Bank Street makes a direct impact on the children, educators, and communities we serve. Thank you for your continued support – we couldn’t do it without you.

What is Bank Street School for Children?

As one of the top private schools in New York City, Bank Street School for Children empowers students to build a future that fulfills their brightest dreams and boldest plans.

What do Bank Street students do?

Bank Street students connect with the world beyond our campus every day—from expeditions in New York City to explore big ideas to the use of technology to explore the richness and diversity of other cultures.

When did Bank Street start?

Bank Street’s Head Start initiative began in 1964, shortly after the Civil Rights Act was passed. Earlier in 1964, Bank Street’s president, John H. Niemeyer, had been asked to work with Southern universities to create desegregation programs.

Is Bank Street Head Start a pre-K program?

Bank Street Head Start is both a Head Start Program funded by the federal government and a Pre-K for All program funded by the Department of Education.

What We Do

Bank Street offers master’s degrees for educators and educational leaders and expert-led professional development opportunities.

Make a Gift

Your gift to Bank Street makes a direct impact on the children, educators, and communities we serve. Thank you for your continued support – we couldn’t do it without you.

How Can Families Be Proactive in an Emotionally Charged Media Environment?

By Charles Vergara, Technology Coordinator, School for Children Today, children have more exposure to the media than ever before.

The Third Relationship

by Charlie Vergara, Technology Coordinator, Bank Street School for Children “Books!” “Teachers!” “Community walks!” “Ask our parents!” Recently, a 6/7s classroom was brainstorming research strategies for understanding the needs of our local community. Notably absent from their list was any mention of the internet or digital devices.

Blank Walls Build Community

The beginning of the year is one of the most exciting times for educators. We get to start new– new students, new supplies (who doesn’t love brand new pencils?), and a sense of renewed energy from summer break. Having been teaching for a long time, I have a ‘Beginning of the Year’ routine. The first […]

A Room with a View

Teachers, children, and parents pass through the Bank Street Admissions Office, my home away from home, every day. The one comment that I hear from visitors almost daily is, “You have the best view.” I always agree because the view from my office is indeed wonderful, and also an excellent opportunity to learn about what […]

The Lunchtime Solution

This year, the 7/8s have been assigned the earliest lunch slot of the day— 11:30 AM and their lunchtime is preceded by recess. The schedule allows 30 minutes for each, with no transition time between. For context, recess takes place on the roof (the “10th floor”) and lunch takes place in the cafeteria ( in […]

The Power of a Story

A number of years ago, at an assembly at my previous school, we invited an engineer to share her career path. In her speech, she told a story of when a speaker came to present in an assembly at her high school years before. That speaker was a female engineer, and the woman telling the […]

My Worlds and Welcome to Them

My world as the Lower School Division Head is three- to six-year-olds. My world as a parent is an 11-year-old named Lucy who is in her first year in Bank Street’s Upper School (that’s the 10/11s, or 5th grade). Sometimes, these two identities intertwine: When I read in Lucy’s weekly class update that they had […]