Cecelia Traugh is dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street College. Prior to coming to Bank Street, September 2015, Dr. Traugh was dean of the School of Education at Long Island University, Brooklyn and the director of its Center for Urban Educators (CUE). Throughout her career, she has combined her roles as a teacher, administrator and researcher in pursuit of the kind of education that grows out of a valuing of the capacities of children, parents and teachers. She has worked collaboratively with parents, teachers and administrators to make classrooms and schools more supportive of children’s and teachers’ growth, thinking and learning. Some of Traugh’s areas of concentration are descriptive school-based inquiry, curriculum development and evaluation, including qualitative evaluation, and the preparation of teachers for urban schools. Her current work in schools includes school-wide inquiry groups in small schools across Manhattan and Brooklyn. These inquiry groups use the Descriptive Processes developed at the Prospect Center in North Bennington, Vermont to investigate issues important to the inclusive education of all children and to the ongoing development of the schools themselves.
