I was extremely thrilled and overjoyed when I received my acceptance letter from Bank Street. However, with each new person I shared my good news with, that excitement was replaced […]
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Graduate Student Life
How do you make time for yourself as a busy grad student?
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance can be challenging enough but it can feel like a near impossible feat when you add graduate school to the mix. Though it is easier said […]
Graduate School Classes
Observation & Recording
“Observing and recording children’s behavior is the wellspring that nourishes and integrates the dual elements of a teacher’s role – doing and reflecting. Using these techniques, teachers learn to rely […]
Career Search & Services
Job Search Support Day
Time really does fly when you are having fun (or busy with a full graduate school workload). It is hard to believe that I have reached the semester where I […]
Admissions
Applying to Bank Street
One day at work, during the summer of 2014, the idea to go back to school full-time struck me. I knew if this were to happen, I needed to act […]
Culturally Responsive Practice
Talking about Race in the Classroom
“Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection” – Dr. Martin Luther […]
I am a proponent of learning that is stimulated by the desire to explore, wonder, and question, and how this type of learning can transcend from the classroom to other […]
Graduate School Classes
Child Development
Child Development (EDUC 500) is one of the foundational courses that are required by many of the graduate programs at Bank Street. I took the course during my first semester […]
New York has so much to offer all year round and wintertime brings its own unique set of experiences thanks to all of the holiday cheer. However, when the temperature […]
Supervised Fieldwork & Advisement
My First Day in the Classroom
Walking into my classroom on the first day of school, I was a bundle of nerves. Would they like me? Am I smart enough? Can I really do this? My […]