Bank Street (The Developmental-Interaction Approach)
The Bank Street curriculum was developed as a play-based curriculum at the demonstration program for the Bureau of Educational Experiments, founded in 1919 by Lucy Sprague Mitchell and Harriet Johnson; that institution is now known as Bank Street College in New York City. It was renamed and articulated as the Developmental-Interaction Approach for inclusion as the traditional preschool model for the Head Start Planned Variation and Follow Through initiatives (Biber, 1977).