Mid-Career Events

Information Sessions:

OPEN HOUSE: 

On November 12th, 2011 the Mid-Career Doctoral Program will hold an Open House from 11:30am-2:00pm in the Hall of Flags located in Houston Hall at 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

The Mid-Career Doctoral Program's Open House gives prospective students an opportunity to meet with program faculty, current students, and alumni. Come learn more about this innovative leadership program. Lunch will be provided.

To RSVP for any of the above events please send an email to mcprog@gse.upenn.edu or contact our office at 215.746.6572 or 215.573.0588. Walk-ins are welcome!

Mid-Career in the News

Alexander Wilson Principal and Mid-Career student Sonya Harrison reports that the Hamels Foundation (as in Cole Hamels) has awarded Wilson a $50,000 grant to complete its playground. The school was one of those selected from a pool of 40 other applicants. Construction on the playground is schedule to begin in August.

Mid Career Accomplishments

Congrats to Henry May and CPRE who are part of a $4 Million Investing in Innovation federal grant to evaluate the effectiveness of a national literacy program.

Congrats to Sharon Ravitch who received a renewal of the grant awarded by the CISA Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility Division to fund two additional years of her team’s research in Nicaragua.

Congrats to Diane Waff who received supplemental funding for a Learning Sciences Research Institute mini-grant from The National Writing Project.

Congrats to Leslie Nabors Oláh who has taken a leave from PennGSE to accept a Fellowship with the Strategic Data Project, a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University. She will continue to teach the Proseminar “Refining the Research Question” for the Mid-Career Program. See more information below if you are interested in getting involved in this project in some way.

Award Received: John DeFlaminis and Bonnie Botel-Sheppard have received an award in excess of $300,000 from the Philadelphia Foundation for Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC - TPF).

Grant Received: Vivian Gadsden has received an award from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in support of National Center on Fathers and Families.

Grant Received: The W.T. Grant Foundation has awarded Peg Goertz and Elliot Weinbaum a two-year $600,000 grant for State Education Agency Use of Research Evidence to Improve Schooling for Youth.

Grant Received: Yasmin Kafai has received a $600,000 NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation grant for Collaborative Research: Preparing the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers: Transforming Learning and Education Through Cooperation in Decentralized Networks.

Grant Received: The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $45 million grant to consortium of 16 universities for a project to implement and evaluate the Reading Recovery program; GSE’s Henry May will receive $4 million of that total for work on the evaluation.

Grant: Susan Yoon is the co-PI on a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology titled BioGraph: Graphical Programming for Constructing Complex

Congratulations to Dr. James "Torch" Lytle who was awarded the GSE Excellence in Teaching Award!

Congratulations to Karen Kolsky, alumna, for being appointed to the position of Deputy Chief of Professional Development for the District of Philadelphia.

Publications by Mid-Career Faculty, Alumni, and Students

Gene Batiste recently published an article for NAIS:

http://www.nais.org/equity/article.cfm?ItemNumber=155524

Robert McGarry recently published an article in the September edition of Educational Leadership:

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept11/vol69/num01/Breaking-Silences.aspx

Stanton Wortham has two recent publications: “Refining the gap between theory and practice: Should anthropologists try to change the world?” Anthropology News, September 2010.

Katherine Mortimer, Stanton Wortham, and Elaine Allard recently published; “Helping immigrants identify as “university-bound students”: Unexpected difficulties in teaching the hidden curriculum” in Revista de Educacion, 353. Septiembre-Diciembre 2010, pp. 107-128.

Program faculty, Sigal Ben-Porath, along with Marybeth Gasman, discuss the value of philosophy in this article: The Importance of Philosophy at HBCUs: The Case of Howard University in the October 12 Chronicle of Higher Education Innovations Blog.

Read Torch Lytle’s comments on the Philadelphia school district's embrace of Obama's Race to the Top initiatives in the October 2010 The Philadelphia Public School Notebook in the following article: Changes in Federal Role, Funding Continue under Obama

Sigal Ben-Porath recently published Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice. Princeton University Press, 2010.

Margaret Goertz, Leslie Nabors Olah and Matthew Riggan: Can Interim Assessments Be Used for Instruction Change? CPRE Policy Brief, 2010.

Margaret Goertz, Leslie Nabors Olah and Matthew Riggan: From Testing to Teaching: The Use of Interim Assessments in Classroom Instruction. CPRE Research Report, 2010.

Leslie Nabors Olah, Katrina Bulkley and Suzanne Blanc (Eds.) Benchmarks for Success? Interim Assessments as a Strategy for Educational Improvement. Special Issue of Peabody Journal of Education.

Michael Reichert and Sharon Ravitch. (2010). Defing normative male identities: The transgressive possibilities of Jewish boyhood. Youth and Society. 42(1), September 2010. pps. 104-131.

Michael Reichert and Sharon Ravitch: “Everything that makes us human”: Identity, bonding and resilience among Jewish boys. In Brothers Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity, edited by Harry Brod and Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit. Men’s Studies Press, August 15, 2010.

Jon Supovitz, Philip Sirinides, and Henry May: How principals and peers influence teaching and learning, Educational Administration Quarterly, 46(1).

Peter Kuriloff, Michael Reichert, Brett Stoudt, and Sharon Ravitch recently published “Building research collaborative among schools and universities: Lessons from the field” in Mind, Brain & Education, 3(1).

Doug Lynch, Chris Thomas, Wendy Green, Michael Gottfried, and Matthew Varga published an article called “Rethinking the measurement of training and development in the professions: A conceptual model” in International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 1(1).

Jon Supovitz, Philip Sirinides, and Henry May published an article called “How principals and peers influence teaching and learning” in Educational Administration Quarterly, 46(1).

Jon Supovitz published an article called “Can high stakes testing leverage educational improvement? Prospects from the last decade of testing and accountability reform” in The Journal of Educational Change, 10.

Stanton Wortham, Katherine Mortimer, and Elaine Allard published an article called “Mexicans as model minorities in the New Latino Diaspora” in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 40(4).