[1] She graduated from the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and began working as a district nurse at the Henry Street Settlement.
Their aim was to bring various specialists and researchers together for the purposes of studying experimental education.
Johnson was the founder and first director of the bureau's nursery school, which was later named in her honor.
The staff included teachers, psychologists and researchers who worked to discover the environments in which children grew and learned to their full potential.
Children at Johnson's Nursery school were given opportunities to draw, paint and model in clay.