The Graduate School at Bank Street College of Education is dedicated to preparing individuals to become outstanding educators and leaders in schools, museums, and other educational settings. Based in a tradition of progressive education, the graduate programs are designed to help educators find ways to make learning vital, active, and creative for children from diverse backgrounds who come to the classroom with a broad range of learning styles. Bank Street’s master’s degree programs lead to New York State certification and provide graduates with a thorough, rigorous, humanistic foundation for their careers in education. Each of Bank Street’s programs is characterized by small classes, a year of supervised fieldwork/advisement, and a faculty dedicated both to research and to classroom practice.

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Created with help from businesses that provided stipends for retiring employees to prepare to teach (IBM, TRW, McDonnell-Douglas, and Hughes were among the first companies to participate), this program provides training and credentials to retired and laid-off aerospace workers interested in becoming elementary or secondary mathematics and science teachers. Students progress through the program in a peer cohort and receive specialized assessment and training based on their advanced knowledge and experience in the field. The program now receives its primary financial support from private industry councils in the Dominguez Hills service area. During their year in the program, candidates observe, tutor, and student teach in schools while taking courses in teaching methods, motivation, learning, classroom management, and multicultural perspectives. Graduates affirm that the training has been essential to their later success.