March 13, 2025
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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.

  • Global Initiatives
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March 11, 2025
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James Arrington

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

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
March 5, 2025
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Funded by the NSF, the Create AI workshop aimed to empower students and teachers to build, not just use, AI.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
February 27, 2025
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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.

  • Teaching & Learning
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February 18, 2025
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Kemi Oyewole

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.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
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  • Teaching & Learning
February 4, 2025
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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.

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
January 7, 2025
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Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore

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.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
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December 20, 2024
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Four photos in a square over the text “Penn GSE 2024 Stories.” Clockwise from top left: Dean Katharine Strunk, a man sitting in the back of a classroom with data superimposed over him, PLN Director Lara Paparo speaking into a microphone with Thinkify executives seated beside her, and Associate Professor Brooks Bowden.

Look back with us at some of the stories that defined 2024 for our community.

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  • News from Penn GSE
December 18, 2024
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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

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  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
December 13, 2024
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Penn GSE alumni use their passion for education to teach learners of all ages through exhibits, outreach, and special collections.

 

 
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