Building Responsive & Sustainable Early Educator Apprenticeship Programs

This publication shares key findings and design recommendations from the Bank Street Education Center’s evaluation of Vermont’s early childhood education apprenticeship program. Drawing on excerpts from interviews and focus groups, the report explores how apprenticeship models can support early educators in earning credentials and degrees, and how program design can be adapted to better meet the needs of the early education workforce.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/faculty-staff/1063/thumbnail.jp

The Best Board Books of the Year [2025 edition]

Please enjoy our annotated list of the very best board books for ages zero to four that were published in 2023 and 2024.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/1030/thumbnail.jp

“I’ll Walk Out if You Walk Out”: A Comic on How Students of Color Utilize Racial Micropolitical Literacy in Their Everyday Lives

Advocating for an expansive view of Youth Participatory Action Research that considers everyday practices in mundane life as essential for building just and thriving futures, the authors co-created a comic to illustrate the inventive ways youth of color co-create educational possibilities for racially just futures in everyday classroom life. Framed through a racial micropolitical literacy framework and based on a real-life narrative, their scholarship in comic form invites youth, practitioners, and scholars to re-frame and re-present learning, teaching, studying, and living educational justice in renewed ways. Specifically, the authors highlight the ingenious practices of youth of color who are already engaging in alternative inquiries and solutions for a racially just and harm-free world, which can expand collective actions and imaginations for social transformation

Hoda Hadadi: Cook Prize 2025, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech

Illustrator Hoda Hadadi gives an acceptance speech for Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan’s First Woman Architect (Clarion)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1019/thumbnail.jp

Speculation is Not Theoretical: The Work of YPAR Moving Forward

Nothing brought me more joy during my years as the coordinator of the UCLA Council of Youth Research than those moments when, after politely listening to my explanation of some theoretical concept that scholars have painstakingly defined and debated across years in the academy, the students would laugh and respond with some variation of, “Yeah, we get it. We know what they’re saying—they just use fancy language to say it.” Hegemony, social capital— whatever the concept, the youth could always tap into their own identities and experiences to understand that, stripped of all jargon, they already viscerally grasped these realities—the literature just provided some new vocabulary

#37: Lessons for Today from Black Educators amid Jim Crow: The Origins of Teacher Leadership

Featuring our invited speaker, Dr. Miyoshi B. Juergensen (MJ), a teacher leadership researcher, who seeks to illuminate the historical and often overlooked contributions of Black teachers in southern segregated schooling communities to the development of teacher leadership. Dr. Juergensen\u27s research uncovers the origin story of teacher leadership, extending much further back in time than has been previously argued, with Black teachers as key architects of its foundation. Anchored by the guiding research question, What historical evidence exists that highlights the teacher leadership practices of Black teachers in southern segregated schooling communities?, her work and forthcoming book seek to uncover, document, and honor Black teachers\u27 significant contributions to teaching and leading for equity, pedagogical excellence, and school improvement. This timely research provides vision, hope and possibility for understanding social justice leadership in schools and communities under oppressive regimes. Dr. Juergensen\u27s talk will be followed by discussant responses from GSE alums Alicia Wargo and Rhema Stradford-Dai.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/librarysalons/1036/thumbnail.jp

Lori Alexander: Cook Prize 2025, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech

Author Lori Alexander gives an acceptance speech for Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park (Calkins Creek)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1017/thumbnail.jp

Long Trip 2002 Photo 5

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Long Trip 1948 Photo 7

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Bea Jackson: 2025 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech

Illustrator Bea Jackson gives an acceptance speech for Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom, written by Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose (Farrar Straus and Giroux)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1020/thumbnail.jp