Professional Biography
Trey Smith is an adjunct instructor at Penn GSE. Trey has taught biology, chemistry, computer science, physical science, and social studies in Philadelphia public school schools since 2007. As a teacher at Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School, he received a 2014 Teacher as Hero Award from the National Liberty Museum and the 2012 Outstanding Science Teacher Award from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers.
Trey has served as a teacher consultant with the Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP) at Penn GSE since 2009. He has co-facilitated PhilWP's signature Invitational Summer Institute on Writing and Literacy for four summers and serves on PhilWP's advisory board.
During the 2014-15 school year, Trey was selected as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. As a legislative fellow in the Senate, he helped secure bipartisan amendments to the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2016 related to engineering and computer science education, career and technical education, and teacher professional development. The following year, the Library of Congress selected Trey to be its first-ever Science Teacher-in-Residence. In his role at the Library of Congress, he explored teaching and learning with historical primary sources in science and engineering classrooms. Based on his work on teaching with primary sources across disciplines, Trey facilitated workshops sponsored by the National Center for History Education and hosted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Astronauts Memorial Foundation at the Kennedy Space Center.