When aspiring graduate student Molly Waterman sat down for her Bank Street admissions interview, she found herself face to face with her beloved kindergarten- and first-grade teacher, Abigail Kerlin, who […]
Graduate Admissions Blog
Category: Faculty Post
Admissions
Seven Months In: A Reflection
For over two decades, I have overseen programming and admissions at many different institutions of higher education—large and small, private and public, rural, suburban, and urban —with programming that spanned […]
Admissions
Supportive Graduate School Experience
At Bank Street Graduate School of Education, we understand that the decision to pursue your educational career is a monumental one. You are committing many of your resources—time, money, and, […]
We have many expectations for a school principal. We hold them accountable to a wide range of roles—from educational leader and staff manager to professional developer and even caregiver. It […]
Faculty Post
An Advisor’s Reflection
One of the things that drew me to Bank Street in 1986 was hearing about the unique and exceptional approach of Bank Street’s fieldwork process. Not having been a graduate […]
“I don’t know what I would have done if it weren’t for this group.” These are words that a graduate student recently shared in one of my supervised fieldwork conference […]
How we approach challenging events in our lives can determine our ability to move forward and find meaning in adversity. For children, meaning is often found in play, art, music, […]
Although you cannot see the wind you know it’s there. You feel it. It’s seemingly everywhere and nowhere. When you think you see it, you’re not seeing it at all, […]