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Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education Howard Stevenson and his brother Bryan, a civil rights attorney and author of the best-selling book Just Mercy, reflect on their Delaware childhood, their social justice work and how to make sense of these troubled times on WHYY's The Connection.

On May 17, in the Palestra, Penn GSE commemorated the achievements of the roughly 700 master’s and doctoral graduates at this year’s Commencement ceremony.

Howard Stevenson shares his tool to help individuals, especially young people, cope with insults and threatening language while managing stress in divisive debates or tense situations.

The subscription-based service is available to families and school counselors and is currently used in several Philadelphia-area schools, a national network of 25 charter schools, and even a school in Qatar.

Resilience helps students persevere through loss and struggle, but recent natural disasters like the LA wildfires are testing that grit. Diana Wildermuth provides tips for school counselors on the front lines.

Kandi Wiens notes that workers who are most at risk of burnout are not only those in demanding jobs but also those with genuine passion for their work, as they are more likely to become emotionally invested and overextend themselves in pursuit of their goals.

Diana Wildermuth emphasizes that high school is a journey of self-discovery. Teens and families can take steps each year toward post-secondary readiness.

The collection underscores how inequality manifests across multiple levels, explores its effects on children, and highlights interventions to create supportive educational environments.

Diana Wildermuth shares her expertise in the world of recruiting for college athletics.

Kandi Wiens says that employer-provided wellness services tend to backfire more than help with burnout.

The Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education and executive director of REC weighed in on a University of Georgia study revealing how discriminatory experiences could harm children’s development.

Kandi Wiens discusses how being self-sacrificing to the point of burnout in one's career can be a major block in achieving ones goals.

Kandi Wiens discusses how more engaged workers are actually more prone to burnout, and shares how setting boundaries can help combat this.

Barbara Kurshan emphasizes the importance of women having mentors in their field, especially to combat imposter syndrome and to feel supported in their careers.

Penn GSE is pioneering multi-tiered initiatives to strengthen mental health support for students and educators across U.S. schools.

Kandi Wiens discusses her new book 'Burnout Immunity', and strategies to combat burnout in the workplace.

Kandi Wiens explains the rise of burnout culture, how wide reaching its effects are, and shares strategies to combat and cope with it

Both books publish April 23 and explore topics deeply important to their authors.

Kandi Wiens discusses how to combat burnout, and argues that it should be reframed as an occupational problem that requires organizational change instead of a personal failing.

The program at Penn GSE stands out in providing direct feedback from trained observers.

Her insights emphasize the subtlety and gradual nature of burnout and outline its three primary features.

Benoit Dubé, Noémie Le Pertel, GRD’21, and Ariane Thomas discuss mental health across the learning lifespan with Dean Katharine Strunk.

Helping students who feel under threat is one of the hardest things a teacher or administrator can do. Howard Stevenson offers some ideas for creating safer spaces for students and educators alike.

According to a 2022 Gallup poll, teaching is among the most stressful occupations. Kandi Wiens, a researcher who studies burnout and emotional intelligence, shares some advice to help educators prioritize self-care and stress management.

How do you create learning environments that accommodate, and celebrate, all of your students' different backgrounds?

Marsha Richardson shares her insights on how parents and teachers can help children process the complex thoughts and emotions of watching war unfold.

Jacobs was part of a panel discussion on the practice, which aims to arm students with coping skills and awareness to navigate their trauma in school and educational settings successfully.

Kandi Wiens offers strategies to prevent overworking after a vacation, emphasizing the importance of work recovery for sustained performance and well-being.

As a keynote speaker at the "Racism, Racial Literacy and Mental Health" conversation, Howard Stevenson says you need to heal before you can fight to change racism.

Jonathan Zimmerman explained that attacks on Critical Race Theory and Social and Emotional Learning by conservatives represent a new nationalization of educational politics.

Dr. Caroline Watts believes that some students may require additional support due to developing a chronic fear of violence.

Readers came to the Penn GSE website for practical, easy-to-apply advice that resonated in classrooms and communities around the world.

A list of tips and tricks for a stress-free holiday season from Diana Wildermuth.

Howard Stevenson speaks about the PLAAY Project, which prepares Black male youth to cope with crisis and high-stress situations through sports.

A team of emerging Penn GSE professionals earned valuable on-the-ground training as counselors this summer, teaching kids tools such as breathing, mindfulness, and motivation.

Howard Stevenson provides tips on coping in the aftermath of the shootings in Uvalde, Texas.

A new mural at a Philadelphia-area high school is more than a colorful work of art. It’s the product of a hands-on learning experience that helped unite a local school community while promoting mental health. Penn GSE’s Consortium for Mental Health and Optimal Development was instrumental in designing the project and bringing partners together.

Already reeling from the ongoing disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, local classrooms have been beset by gun violence and its troubling effects on mental health.

Sharon Wolf is leading a project to reach parents in impoverished rural areas with text messages.

Penn GSE’s Dr. Marsha Richardson shares her insights on how parents and teachers can help children process the complex thoughts and emotions associated with watching war unfold.

Marsha Richardson discusses how to explain the realities of war to children. “When it comes to issues like this, sometimes we can find it hard to connect the dots between a child’s behavior and the events unfolding in the world around them,” she says. “This is about being in tune with and understanding, developmentally, the ways in which these stressful situations might manifest for children.”

Speaking to an audience of Penn GSE alumni and friends, three mental health professionals shared ways in which they’re responding to students’ mental health during transitional times.

In the 2021 Constance E. Clayton lecture, Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn points to the critical need to imagine Black futures in the metaverse and describes her work on an immersive virtual reality experience in which viewers become a Black male encountering racism.

Mike Nakkula comments on the development of LGBTQ student support programs in the Philadelphia public school system. “Being closeted and hiding are major risk factors,” Nakkula said. “Creating spaces in schools where students feel like they have a chance to voice their concerns, that’s a critical developmental act.”

Howard Stevenson offered tips for how parents can address racist or insensitive comments made by children. “Get a sense of what they understand it to mean from their perspective,” he said. “Where did they hear it from? How is it being used in the social context they’re in? Then you have a better angle to how you can speak to it.”

This spring, Garrett became Assistant Dean for Student Affairs in Yale’s Office of Gender & Campus Culture and the Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative.

Penn GSE students preparing for counseling careers have strived to deliver mental health services to vulnerable populations via virtual internships while studying remotely themselves.

"It’s going to be a sort of an identifier for folks who lived through this, and we don’t really know what the mental health impacts are on us,” Ariane Thomas said.

Parents can help their kids prepare to go back to school in person. Focus on sleep. Talk about fears. And maybe get a new outfit.

Writing in Diabetes Daily, Penn GSE alum Tara Bryant-Gray encourages parents to embrace the flux of pandemic parenting a child with type 1 diabetes.