Amy Stornaiuolo, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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December 5, 2018

Amy Stornaiuolo

Amy Stornaiuolo, with Anna Smith of Illinois State University and Nathan Phillips of the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been awarded the 2018 Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy for the article "Developing a transliteracies framework for a connected world." The award is...

Nelson Flores, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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December 5, 2018

Nelson Flores

Nelson Flores, with Sofia Chaparro of the University of Colorado Denver, was awarded the James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts for the paper, "What counts as language education policy? Developing a materialist anti-racist approach to language activism."  The Alatis...

Yasmin B. Kafai, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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November 20, 2018

Yasmin Kafai

Yasmin Kafai, with Co-Principal Investigators Orkan Telhan of PennDesign and Karen Hogan of Biorealize, has received a $99,855 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support the project "Learn.design.compute with bio: A Workshop for Connecting Computational Thinking with Synthetic Biology...

Laura W. Perna, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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November 2, 2018

Laura Perna

Laura Perna has received a subcontract from the Pell Institute, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The one-year, $250,000 grant — $60,000 of which is to Penn GSE — will support the production of the annual Indicators of Higher Education Equity report.

 

Nancy H. Hornberger, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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October 16, 2018

Nancy Hornberger

Nancy Hornberger has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Umeå University in Sweden. Since 2012, Dr. Hornberger has served as Visiting Professor to Umeå University's Department of Language Studies, consulting and collaborating on the development of Sámi language teaching, teacher education, and research in support of...

Krystal Strong, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 21, 2018

Krystal Strong

Krystal Strong has received a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation to support the next 14 months of the project "Education and Political Change: Mapping Contemporary School Protests in Africa." Dr. Strong's research team will complete the first comprehensive, cross-national database of the incidence and...

Awards & Honors
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September 19, 2018

Janine Remillard, Caroline Ebby

Janine Remillard and Caroline Ebby have received a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation for the project "Transitions to the First Year of Teaching in Urban Schools: Learning to Enact Dialogic Instruction in Mathematics."

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Awards & Honors
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September 19, 2018

Caroline Ebby, Caroline Watts

Caroline Ebby and Caroline Watts have received $2,993,280 from the National Science Foundation for their four-year project "Building Sustainable Networked Instructional Leadership in Elementary Mathematics through a University Partnership with a Large Urban District."

 

Susan A. Yoon, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 4, 2018

Susan Yoon

Susan Yoon, with Blanca Himes and Matthew Breitenstein, both of Penn Medicine, has received a grant of $1,036,108 from the National Science Foundation for the project "Professional Development Supports for Teaching Bioinformatics through Mobile Learning." The project aims to help create an engaged population of...

Laura W. Perna, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 4, 2018

Laura Perna

Laura Perna, with project partners Robin LaSota of Development Services Group and Joshua R. Polanin of the American Institutes for Research, has received a $600,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences. Their two year project, “The Effects of College Aid Programs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” aims to...

Abby Reisman, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 4, 2018

Abby Reisman

Abby Reisman has received a $19,993 grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program for the project “The Life of African Americans in 19th Century Philadelphia: Using Library of Congress Resources to Uncover Hidden History.” The project will establish a professional development series to support...

Manuel S. González Canché, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 4, 2018

Manuel González Conché

Manuel S. González Canché has received a $70,000 grant from the National Academy of Education for his project “Overcoming the Geography of Disadvantage: A Spillovers Framework to Identify Structural Means to Enhance Community College Students’ Educational Outcomes Despite Their Location.”

 

Laura W. Perna, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 4, 2018

Laura Perna

Laura Perna has received a $300,000 subcontract from Research for Action, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support the project “Evaluating free college programs,” which is designed to advance understanding of design, implementation, and effects of selected state and local free community...

Kate Kinney, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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September 4, 2018

Kate Kinney Grossman

Kate Kinney Grossman has been granted with $182,368 by the Philadelphia School Partnership for incubation of specialized coursework and fieldwork that supports pre-service teachers in the Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program to enact Project Based Learning and/or use Design Thinking approaches in their classrooms.

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Jonathan A. Supovitz, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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July 17, 2018

Jonathan Supovitz

Jonathan Supovitz, with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), has received a $155,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a distributed leadership project. The project will identify the research and evidence base for distributed leadership; develop a framework to guide...

Marybeth Gasman, Penn GSE
Awards & Honors
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July 9, 2018

Marybeth Gasman

Marybeth Gasman, with the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI), has received a $182,000 grant from the ECMC Foundation for the MSI Aspiring Leaders program. With this program, CMSI brings together...

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