May 12, 2020
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The Center for Professional Learning: Penn GSE Brings Knowledge to a Wide Audience

Penn GSE’s new Center for Professional Learning will allow working professionals to deepen their knowledge, build their professional networks, and grow their careers.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
May 12, 2020
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Partnering to Shape Urban Education: Penn GSE Builds National Models and Practitioner Communities

Penn GSE is working in Philadelphia to establish national models of instruction and data use—and improve children’s lives both in and outside of school.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Alumni
May 12, 2020
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Education and COVID-19: Penn GSE Faculty Weigh In

As the COVID-19 crisis brought dramatic changes to the education landscape this spring, Penn GSE faculty shared their perspectives to help educators and families.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
January 23, 2020
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Propelling Change: Penn GSE Education Entrepreneurship Alumni

Locally and nationally, Penn GSE Education Entrepreneurship alumni are innovating at all levels of education, both within and beyond the classroom.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Alumni
January 10, 2020
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Learning, Sharing, and Making Meaning: Philadelphia Writing Project Advances Writing Across the City

Diane Waff, C’76, GRD’07, and Judy Buchanan discuss how the Philadelphia Writing Project enriches K–12 teachers’ and students’ learning and how a new initiative is cultivating Philadelphia’s youngest writers.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Alumni
January 8, 2020
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Empowering Students to Shatter Expectations

Penn GSE alumnus Eduardo (Tony) A. Alleyne, GRD’16, works to help first-generation, low-income high school students prepare for college.

  • Leadership
  • Alumni
December 5, 2019
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Penn GSE Facilitates a Conversation on Learning and Character at Homecoming

Character, collaboration, and project-based learning were topics of conversation when best-selling author and Penn professor Angela Duckworth joined Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman for a discussion during Penn’s Homecoming Weekend.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
November 21, 2019
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Bridging the Digital Divide Through Counseling

Penn GSE alumna Angela Cleveland, GED’01, is helping school counselors broaden student participation in computer science.

  • Counseling & Psychology
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Alumni
November 6, 2019
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Celebrating Educators

Alumni and friends celebrated the extraordinary impact of Penn GSE at the School’s annual Celebration of Educators.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
November 6, 2019
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Helping Adolescents Learn and Thrive: Penn GSE Professor Michael J. Nakkula on Supporting Young People

Penn GSE Professor of Practice Michael J. Nakkula discusses his work investigating what approaches can improve students’ life trajectories, how schools can better serve students, and what he enjoys most about teaching GSE students.  

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Alumni

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