Professional Biography
Trey Smith is an adjunct instructor at Penn GSE. Trey has taught computer science, engineering, science, and social studies in Philadelphia public school schools since 2007. As a teacher at Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School, he received the 2021 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching from President Biden. He currently teaches K–8 students in a multidisciplinary makerspace at Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy in the School District of Philadelphia.
During the 2014–15 school year, Trey served as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. 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.
Trey has been 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 six summers and serves on PhilWP's advisory board.
