April 8, 2024
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Gerald Campano

Penn GSE faculty and students to share expertise at AERA 2024 in Philly

Gerald Campano will also be honored with a lifetime achievement award for his professional achievements and mentorship work.

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  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Higher Education
March 25, 2024
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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker

Penn GSE announces Mayor Cherelle Parker as 2024 commencement speaker

Parker, who took office this year, has pledged to make strengthening Philadelphia public schools a priority of her administration.

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  • News from Penn GSE
February 28, 2024
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A vintage postcard featuring the Crystal Pool at Woodside Park amusement park in West Philadelphia.

The West Philadelphia Collaborative History Project chronicles a community's past

Explore West Philadelphia's heritage in a richly illustrated digital archive, where a community's stories of resilience, struggle, and triumph come to life.

  • Philadelphia Impact
February 19, 2024
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Felix Rosado, the program coordinator for Healing Futures with the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) and an adjunct professor at Chestnut Hill College, delivers a keynote to an audience of high school students in front of a projector screen with his headshot and name on it in a lecture hall.

Penn GSE supports Youth United Against Incarceration Symposium

The Office of School and Community Engagement and HEARD co-sponsored the symposium, uniting nearly 175 students in a collaborative effort with the Workshop School to critically address and devise strategies against the systemic issue of mass incarceration.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
February 9, 2024
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Chaz Howard stands with the recipients of the 2023 Projects for Progress awards.

Ariane Thomas receives 2023 Projects for Progress Award

The Professional Counseling Program director’s Positioned for Success project was recognized for academically supporting and mentoring Philadelphia students affected by gun violence and parental incarceration.

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  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
December 21, 2023
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A large multicultural group of 27 youth, parents, and other adults pose together in a semicircle, smiling at the camera in a classroom.

Penn GSE researchers team up with Philly community to make a difference through CARE Initiative

The community-based research partnership aims to effect change through community members’ own research into the educational issues they face.

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  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
December 19, 2023
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Penn GSE 2023 Stories, clockwise from top left: Dean Katharine O. Strunk; Dr. James Lester delivers the keynote at the McGraw Center for Educational Leadership opening event; Suzanne McGraw is in the audience at an event, listening; Cover art for the second episode of the Educator's Playbook Podcast

Our top stories of 2023

Look back with us at some of the stories that defined 2023 for our community.

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  • Global Initiatives
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
  • News from Penn GSE
September 29, 2023
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Dr. Constance E. Clayton sits in a peach colored skirt and blazer, surrounded by attendees at the 2016 Constance E. Clayton Lecture

Penn GSE community remembers Dr. Constance E. Clayton, a groundbreaking alum and former Philly superintendent

In addition to a chaired professorship in her name and a fellowship she helped establish, Clayton leaves behind a legacy of quality education for students from all backgrounds.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
September 19, 2023
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Penn GSE student Meresa García sits outside on cement steps in front of a brick wall on the University of Pennsylvania campus wearing a tan t-shirt and blue jeans, smiling at the camera

UTAP student Meresa García shares her passion for literacy and community work with Penn Libraries in “Penn Today”

Meresa García, an Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program student at Penn GSE, has embarked on a mission to promote literacy and education in Philadelphia. Her journey into advocacy was ignited by her lifelong love for books and her realization of the challenges facing public school students in the city.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
August 21, 2023
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A young woman, a member of a classroom instruction team wearing a red-and-white striped shirt and holding a tin cup in her left hand with her right thumb up, sits on the left across a table from three students paying close attention to her instruction. The leftmost student sits in the center of the frame resting her elbows on the table, hands propping up her head, smiling at the camera with bright multicolored flower-shaped beads in her hair.

A new high-touch, low-tech approach to summer learning is increasing student engagement in West Philadelphia

The Netter Center and Penn GSE are testing out a new approach based on feedback from teachers, families, and students. The 6-week pilot replaces traditional course blocks with round-robin stations and eschews technology, with each classroom led by a team of five educators.

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  • Teaching & Learning

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