OUR MISSION

The mission of Bank Street College of Education is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the education process all available knowledge about learning and growth and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world.

In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

Our credo demands ethical standards as well as scientific attitudes. Our work is based on the faith that human beings can improve the society they have created.

Bank Street Credo

Lucy Sprague Mitchell, who founded Bank Street as the Bureau of Educational Experiments over a century ago, wrote a credo that continues to define the spirit of imaginative and critical inquiry that motivates and guides our work today.

What potentialities in human beings—children, teachers, and ourselves—do we want to see develop?

• A zest for living that comes from taking in the world with all five senses alert

• Lively intellectual curiosities that turn the world into an exciting laboratory and keep one ever a learner

• Flexibility when confronted with change and ability to relinquish patterns that no longer fit the present

• The courage to work, unafraid and efficiently, in a world of new needs, new problems, and new ideas

• Gentleness combined with justice in passing judgments on other human beings

• Sensitivity—not only to the external formal rights of the “other fellow,” but to him as another human being seeking a good life through his own standards

• A striving to live democratically, in and out of schools, as the best way to advance our concept of democracy

Congratulations, Class of 2023

Welcome to the Bank Street College Alumni Association, a community of over 14,000 alumni who crossed the stage before you and proudly call Bank Street their alma mater.

Visit our website, graduate.bankstreet.edu/alumni, to learn more about the Office of Alumni Relations and the Alumni Association. Let us know how you are doing and update your contact information so we can stay in touch.

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Your Digital Diploma!

Thru our new digital partner, CeCredential Trust, Bank Street Graduate School of Education is now able to provide you with secure digital proof of your credential. This official and downloadable PDF document is both confidential and verifiable.

How do I request my digital diploma? You’ll receive an email from the Office of Student Services in the coming weeks. Simply follow the given directions, pay a one-time fee of $15.95 for unlimited use, and start sharing your digital diploma on your resume, LinkedIn profile, employers, and even family members.

The email from Student Services will include an video link explaining CeCredential in more detail.

Congratulations, Class of 2023

We’re celebrating you! Use the coupon code NewGrad15 to receive 15% off your next purchase of GSE-branded merchandise through June 2023 at store.bankstreet.edu