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A Snapshot of ECE Apprenticeship Programs
Full text linkThis publication offers a closer look at the key features of existing apprenticeship programs across the United States—such as the diversity and range of approaches to credentials, partnership models, funding, and how programs deliver quality mentoring and/or coaching support—to reimagine how program quality can be strengthened to deepen learning for participants.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/bsec/1012/thumbnail.jp
What Makes a Best Book?
Full text linkStories affect how people see the world and themselves. Stories matter. This is a study of what makes a “best” book. This study considers conversations that discussed and evaluated whether a book should be on a “best of the year” list, how evaluators thought about selecting books for children, and how the lens of looking at children’s literature has changed over time. The researcher conducted six interviews with members of the Children’s Book Committee, observed over fifty hours of Children’s Book Committee meetings, eight hours of awards committee meetings, and reviewed relevant literature. Three topics emerged as central to the discussion of best books in the findings: representation in children’s literature, what kids can handle, and what has changed over time
Janelle Washington Flora Stieglitz Straus Award 2023 Acceptance Speech
No full textIllustrator Janelle Washington wins the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award 2023 for Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked a Civil Rights Movement from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee
The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
Established in 1994 to honor Flora Straus, who led the Children’s Book Committee for many years, this award is presented annually for a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people. Flora Straus stood for the values of courage, hard work, truth, and beauty while adapting to a changing world. She believed that books about varying cultures enrich and help all children in their growth. She championed diverse opinions and points of view and was a person of high principles, unfailing courtesy, and deep understanding.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1009/thumbnail.jp
Jacqueline Woodson: 2023 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Jacqueline Woodson gives an acceptance speech for The World Belonged to Us, illustrated by Leo Espinosa (Penguin)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1011/thumbnail.jp
Trees and Us: Learning About/From Trees and Treescapes From Primary School Children in the United Kingdom
Full text linkIn recent years, there is a growing interest for attending to children’s voice in environmental research. The theoretical developments in knowledge about children view them as social agents who can make sense of their own experiences in relation to the environment surrounded them. In this report, we add reflections from an ongoing project “voices of the future” which aims to reimagine future of treescapes in the UK. Using examples from two primary schools in the northwest of England, we discuss children’s knowledge about trees and how children talk about their lived experiences with trees. Centring on our field work experiences, we discuss how children skilfully communicate distinctive meanings of trees using distinctive modes of communication. We look at how children make sense of the world around them, stressing on developing multiple and relational ways of attending to children’s knowledge about trees and their experiences of natural environment in educational settings
Having It All : Lucy Sprague Mitchell and Wesley Clair Mitchell
Full text linkDescribes Lucy Sprague Mitchell\u27s life and marriage to Wesley Clair Mitchell.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/centennial-books/1003/thumbnail.jp
Indigo Letters: Supporting Children Navigating Endings through Letter Writing
Full text linkIn the realm of children’s literature, substantial resources are missing as it pertains to supporting students through the universal experience of navigating change, specifically something ending. Indigo Letters was inspired by Blue School’s closure at the end of the 2022-2023 school year. In conducting my own research, I quickly learned resources regarding this type of ending are nonexistent. Stories touching school closures are missing on Early Childhood bookshelves because prior to COVID-19, that was rarely a reality of private institutions. According to the Center For Educational Freedom, as of April 2021, there were “132 private schools that announced closures due at least in part to the COVID-19 pandemic” (McLuskey, 2021). While originally Blue School being added to that list was the focal point of my book, I realized the topic was too niche to really accomplish my goal of supporting a wider audience through Indigo Letters. Through utilizing mentor texts, such as The Snowy Day, I was able to write a story with a concise story line, inclusive of diverse identities, developmentally appropriate pedagogy, and concrete resources for educators to use this book in their own classrooms
Cultivating Powerful Mentorship in Educator Credential Programs
Full text linkThis publication explores Bank Street’s approach to mentorship and lessons learned through implementation and features an interview with three Graduate School faculty members: Valentine Burr, Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning; Jessica Wontropski, D13 Residency Program Administrator and Director of General and Special Education Programs; and Cristian Solorza, Director of the TESOL and Bilingual/Dual Language Programs.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/bsec/1010/thumbnail.jp
The Best Children\u27s Books of the Year [2023 edition]
Full text linkIncludes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2022. In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1012/thumbnail.jp
Go With the Flow: Indigenous Science in the Language Classroom
Full text linkIn 2017 a team from the College of Education at Washington State University received a grant from the National Science Foundation to work on a project called Culturally Responsive Indigenous Science (CRIS). In this essay we explore a small piece of the CRIS project with our Coeur d’Alene partners and the lessons we learned from it. These lessons include building and using a culturally responsive lesson plan template and the challenges associated with doing so, learning together and teaching each other how science belongs within a language classroom, and examining beautiful examples of an Indigenous teacher using traditional educational methods with his students. We close with contemplations on further learning and work that can come from this project and the collaborations and relationships we have developed and continue to nurture