With the expressed mission to improve the education of children and their teachers, Bank Street College of Education provides programs for children from infancy through adolescence as well as a host of graduate programs in education and related fields, including those leading to a master’s degree in early childhood education. From the time of its inception, Bank Street has played a major role in shaping the field of early childhood education with a specialized focus on the developmental interaction approach as a way of better understanding the teaching-learning process for young children.