The Penn GSE Magazine

Spring 2016

Spring 2016 Penn GSE Magazine Cover

Cover Story

Michael Sorrell, GRD’15, College President, Dallas, Texas

Creating Opportunity Through Education: Penn GSE Alumni Lead the Way

Learn how Penn GSE alumni are addressing insufficient funding, unidentified learning needs, poverty, and gaps in educational quality and availability.

Features

Painting of girl reading book with butterflies flying out.

Learn how Penn GSE alumni are addressing insufficient funding, unidentified learning needs, poverty, and gaps in educational quality and availability.

Young boy in orange shirt sitting and talking in classroom

Learn how a Penn GSE professor trains students and educators in racial literacy—the skills to identify and resolve racially stressful social interactions.

By drawing on the leadership capabilities of professionals across the school, the institution maximizes its resources and puts its future into the hands of its entire staff, not just one leader whose departure could spell the end of key initiatives.

Male graduate student sitting and listening in classroom.

Chris Parris’s dream of putting more Boston public school students on a path to college brought him to Penn GSE’s M.S.Ed. in Education Entrepreneurship program.