Join Bank Street’s collaborative and supportive educational community to earn your master’s degree in teaching literacy. You’ll gain accreditation, expand your content knowledge, and help your students sharpen their literacy and language skills while developing a love of reading.
Bank Street offers four programs that prepare you to teach literacy and design curriculum through socio-cultural processes that include speaking, listening, reading, writing, and viewing.
At Bank Street, we believe education is an investment that will change your life—and the lives of the students you’ll work with. We’ll help you make it possible.
Every year, Bank Street’s Office of Financial Aid administers over $8.5 million in financial aid to students. More than 50 percent of our students receive financial aid. Your individual financial status from the prior year is a key factor in determining your award. We encourage you to go through the financial aid process to find out what we can offer.
Your individual financial status from the prior year is a key factor in determining your award. Incoming students who earn up to $80,000 a year (or significantly more for students with families) are likely to qualify for a need-based scholarship at Bank Street. Our scholarship program makes the cost of attending Bank Street Graduate School of Education competitive with most other private schools in the New York region.
You can apply for financial aid at the same time you complete your admission application. Filling out the FAFSA as early as possible is an important step for financial aid. Federal student aid, including scholarships, can significantly reduce your financial obligation without adding to student debt.
Our financial aid advisors would be happy to tell you more about the process and our many scholarship opportunities for new and continuing students, including external scholarships and program-based, diversity-oriented, public school-focused, and career changer scholarships, among others.
In developing your own deep knowledge of language learning and literacy concepts, you’ll be better prepared to meet your students where they are and help them prepare for lifelong learning in many core content areas.
In a field that experiences high turnover rates due to underprepared teachers, Bank Street is proud that 87% of its graduates remain in the field of education and 87% feel more confident in their subject area than comparison teachers.
Not only are reading and literacy specialists in demand nationally, but this professional path also can lead to school- and district-level advancement in areas such as curriculum development and administrative leadership.