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Penn GSE welcomes news of how our alumni are educating, leading, and innovating to shape the future of education. We hope you will draw inspiration from the stories we’ve shared on Penn GSE social media and take a moment to share your work with us.


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Professor Sigal Ben-Porath seated on stage during a recent panel discussion about free speech issues. She's holding a microphone and gesturing with her hand as she answers a question from the audience.
December 13, 2022
Penn GSE alumni event focuses on free speech in education

Professors Sigal Ben-Porath and Andrea M. Kane discussed current challenges to free speech in K–12 and higher education with Dean Pam Grossman in front of alumni and friends. The challenges aren’t new, but they’re being amplified by increased polarization in our society.

  • Alumni
Raghu Krishnamoorthy head shot
November 18, 2022
New Penn CLO program director knows how to turn career professionals into educational leaders

Raghu Krishnamoorthy, Ed.D., was named director of the Graduate School of Education’s Penn Chief Learning Officer (CLO) doctoral program in June 2022. He graduated the month before from the same CLO training program.

  • Leadership
  • Alumni
September 21, 2022
In South Africa, Penn GSE interns find purpose and put theory into practice

Two Penn GSE students share their enriching experiences as interns in Johannesburg, South Africa.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Alumni
September 13, 2022
After graduating from Penn GSE, a travel blogger entertains and educates her friends and followers

La India Santos runs a social media profile called Flying Phirst Klass, which encourages young people to travel to less popular destinations and connect with local cultures.

  • Alumni
September 8, 2022
Penn GSE alumni rally together at West Point for Army-inspired leadership retreat

Pushups. Pullups. Sprints. Rows. Thirty students and alumni went to America’s preeminent military academy to catch up with their classmates. Along the way, they tried to catch their breath.

  • Alumni
The cover of the Spring 2022 issue of The Penn GSE Magazine. A disc with four images of educators and students has the title “Fueling Educational Leadership Across The Lifespan” in the center. Other headlines read “Alumni Shaping the Workforce,” “Asking Questions and Building Bridges,” and “Professional Growth through Collaboration.”
July 7, 2022
Leadership across the lifespan: Read the Spring 2022 issue of The Penn GSE Magazine

The Spring 2022 issue of The Penn GSE Magazine spotlights leadership from preK–12 through the workforce, master’s students expanding opportunities for learners, Penn GSE’s building expansion, and more. 

  • Alumni
a woman waves in front of a GSE sign
June 22, 2022
Penn GSE’s Celebration of Educators honors 6 alumni, highlights need for expanded access
  • Higher Education
  • Alumni
Digitally illustrated human figures in different bright colors in stand on a newspaper page titled “JOBS” that contains various job listings.
May 13, 2022
Opening Doors and Reimagining Learning: Penn GSE Alumni Shape the Workforce

Four Penn GSE alumni representing varied sectors of education share innovative ways they are helping prepare the workers of the future.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
  • Alumni
A disc with four images of educators and students with the title “Fueling Educational Leadership Across The Lifespan” in the center.
May 13, 2022
Fueling Educational Leadership Across the Lifespan: Penn GSE Develops the Leaders of the Future for PreK–12, Higher Education, and the Workplace

At a time of incredible flux, Penn GSE’s innovative leadership programs are helping create better school environments, amplifying the impact of K-12 leaders, shaping the future of higher education, and producing scholar-practitioners for the workplace.

  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
Panelists engaged in a discussion on Zoom
March 15, 2022
Panel Addresses the Future of Higher Education

What can institutions do to help students make informed choices about higher education? How can we make sense of skepticism surrounding cost, value, and return on investment? Four members of the Penn GSE community at the forefront of these changes spoke at a recent Penn Alumni panel event.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni

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