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In an interview with NBC10 Philadelphia, Joy Anderson Davis, a senior instructional math coach at Penn GSE, shares tips for parents to help their kids continue to learn during the summer months.

The latest book by the associate professor, who is also a Penn GSE alum, outlines common obstacles to educational equity for Black, LGBTQ+ youth and suggests research-backed guidance for their teachers to help foster their success.

The list of 17 Fulbright recipients from Penn so far this year includes two Urban Teaching Apprenticeship alums from the Class of '22: Emily R. Antrilli and Emma Steinheimer.

As he steps up his role from executive director to assistant dean for teacher preparation and undergraduate education, Sexton is using what he learned completing his executive doctorate over the last two years to “lean into strategic thinking.”

New online course gives K–12 teachers practical tools to implement generative AI with confidence and purpose.

The Penn GSE Tutoring Initiative at Andrew Hamilton School won second place in the 2025 Phillip B. Lindy Award for Excellence in K-16 Partnerships.

Penn GSE welcomed scores of alumni back to campus to celebrate, reconnect, and learn from a timely faculty panel about how educators can facilitate open and constructive classroom conversations during polarized times.

Artificial intelligence tools can generate lesson plans in an instant—but that doesn’t ensure high-quality, enriching, and contextually relevant instruction. Bodong Chen provides advice on how to create engaging, effective, and contemporary lesson plans using AI.

With funding from the Neubauer Family Foundation, the program was created in direct response to the School District of Philadelphia’s call for targeted support in Algebra 1 instruction.

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.

This spring, those honors include three Spencer Foundation grants, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and more.

Professor of Practice Andrea Kane emphasizes the importance of educators and school leaders engaging with themselves, each other, and their school communities to navigate district policies, state laws, and complex or controversial topics in the classroom.

Educators and scholars explored how educators can model democratic engagement while honoring student voice and diverse perspectives.

The recent graduate of Penn GSE’s Urban Teaching Residency shares her classroom at Muñoz-Marin Elementary in North Philadelphia.

The Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice certificate program is a collaboration between Penn GSE and 70 educators around Asia, Africa, and Europe working together on a K–12 education program that emphasizes climate change and social inequalities.

Arrington aims to inspire students to think independently and be creative while demystifying and critically examining academic institutions’ expectations for writing and literacy.

Funded by the NSF, the Create AI workshop aimed to empower students and teachers to build, not just use, AI.

Jeanne Smith puts into practice what she learned in her Penn GSE master's program teaching reading to incarcerated people for the Vermont Department of Corrections.

Kemi Oyewole’s past studies in economics and organizational structures and experience in the Boston Teaching Residency stoked a passion for improving educator professional development.

The Practical English for Daily Living (PEDAL) program at Penn GSE provides an opportunity for TESOL students to practice their teaching with language learners across the University and around the world.

Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore has worked with the UN, established a foundation advocating for youth and women’s rights, and now works as a research scholar. She says Penn CLO’s practitioner–scholar approach has had a profound impact on her work.

As teachers and researchers, Penn GSE alumni are at the forefront of the movement to educate savvy news readers who can parse fact from partisan fiction.

Sometimes student interactions turn contentious. Sarah Kavanagh explains how teachers can guide students in setting their own rules and norms for class discussions and enforcing those rules.

As reported in 'Education Week,' Gottfried finds chronic student absenteeism disrupts classroom dynamics, damages teacher-student relationships, and steadily erodes teacher job satisfaction.

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

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.

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

The institutions’ memorandum of understanding is being renewed following a literacy and community engagement research conference held at Penn Oct. 14–15.

Educators face mounting challenges navigating political and social discourse, and this fall will test them. Abby Reisman offers four ways to open classroom conversations.

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

Topics like the upcoming presidential election may lead to difficult discussions in communities and classrooms. Jonathan Zimmerman offers advice on how to facilitate constructive dialogue among your students.

Michael Gottfried stresses that students are more likely to attend school when they connect with teachers who share their cultural background, fostering a sense of belonging and engagement.

Howard Stevenson emphasizes that parental incarceration profoundly affects Black children's emotional and academic lives, advocating for trauma-informed school environments that provide emotional support and tools for recovery.

More than three dozen of the nation’s leading experts on teacher preparation tackled efforts to diversify and strengthen the teacher workforce.

Edmund W. Gordon, Robert Lerman, and Jody Lewen selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K–12, lifelong learning, and higher education.

Richard Ingersoll notes that nearly half of teachers leave the profession within the first five years, contributing to ongoing retention challenges.

The program is expanding to new schools, building new partnerships, and even releasing a new book.

Artificial intelligence and data analytics are revolutionizing education — and Penn GSE’s Learning Analytics online M.S.Ed. program is perfectly timed to meet this growing demand.

The program run by the Office of School and Community Engagement pairs students in the School District of Philadelphia with Penn students and community members for individually tailored tutoring sessions.

Michael Gottfried says that kids are more likely to attend school if they identify with their educators.

Jonathan Zimmerman writes that the type of well-rounded teaching that Tim Walz was known for in his educational career would not be possible today because of standardized testing.

Richard Ingersoll discusses the issue of teacher turnover within school districts, and how it negatively impacts hiring.

Michael Gottfried discusses the rise in public school absenteeism, and how it is difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of the change because of correlated factors.

The Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice research community at Penn empowers teachers to create active education experiences for students to learn about climate issues.

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

A study by Michael A. Gottfried finds that early elementary school teachers report feeling less close to chronically absent students and view them less positively, even when those students don’t cause trouble in the classroom.

The Math Tutoring in an Elementary School course, supported by the Netter Center, is open to Penn undergraduate and graduate students and aims to redefine traditional math tutoring.

Ed Brockenbrough told Philadelphia's Board of Education the district must provide teachers with professional development on how to address conflicts like the war in Gaza in their classrooms.

Katharine O. Strunk, dean of the Penn GSE, joins her fellow deans from prominent Pennsylvania institutions in highlighting the state's teacher shortage crisis.

Brooks Bowden discusses the effects of lenient grading on academic standards and overall student learning.