December 11, 2024
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Two young women pose in front of a multicolored abstract art piece along the staircase in the Penn GSE lobby.

Collaboration with Philadelphia-based nonprofit brings student art to Penn GSE

The collection brightening Penn GSE’s halls, which will help provide art supplies and programming to under-resourced public schools locally and across the country, includes a piece created years ago by a current Penn GSE student.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
November 25, 2024
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Superintendent Watlington speaks, seated in the foreground, as Dean Strunk, seated in the background in front of a “Together for Good: Penn GSE” banner, listens.

Philly superintendent joins Dean Strunk for Homecoming conversation

At a celebration for the public launch of the School’s new strategic vision, the superintendent joined the dean to discuss how the district and Penn GSE can partner to recruit, retain, and support educators amidst a national shortage.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
  • News from Penn GSE
November 13, 2024
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Penn GSE Dean Katharine Strunk stands arms folded in front of the entrance to the GSE building

Leading for impact, working to ‘meet and make the moment’ for education

This week, Dean Strunk announced the School’s strategic vision, Together for Good.

  • Together for Good
  • News from Penn GSE
November 7, 2024
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Sade Bonilla named inaugural Faculty Research Director for Penn GSE’s Office of School and Community Engagement

The appointment is part of an expansion of the office focused on research to drive the School’s community engagement efforts.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
November 6, 2024
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Lara Paparo seated alongside Thinkist executives Jared Wells and Mark Manasse, speaking into a microphone.

Penn Literacy Network aims to shake up tutoring industry with innovative partnership

The collaboration with public benefits corporation Thinkist is funded with a four-year, $2.2 million Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

  • Together for Good
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
November 3, 2024
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UTR students and Philadelphia youth in the VAST LIFE program during a recent trip to the Franklin Institute.

Urban Teaching Residency program helps working educators connect theory to practice

Participants learn pedagogical approaches in their UTR courses in the evening that they can immediately apply in the classrooms in which they teach.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
October 17, 2024
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Amy Stornaiuolo speaks into a microphone on stage in front of an audience at the 2024 Celebration of Writing and Literacy with the conference logo on a screen behind her.

Philly teachers explore education in the age of AI at PhilWP’s annual Celebration of Writing and Literacy

K–12 and college educators discussed the promise and pitfalls of AI at the conference.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning


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