April 14, 2025
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Penn GSE faculty honored with awards and grants

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

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March 31, 2025
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Should educators share their political views? Penn GSE hosts timely panel on democracy, discourse, and the classroom

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

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning
March 25, 2025
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Homeroom: Sarah Budlow's kindergarten classroom is ready for a year of "firsts"

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

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  • Teaching & Learning
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March 13, 2025
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Innovation in climate education

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
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
March 11, 2025
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James Arrington

Postdoctoral Fellow James Arrington focuses on redefining literacies

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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Penn GSE hosts workshop exploring AI creation and innovation in K–12 education

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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Teaching Literacy in Prison

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
  • Alumni
February 18, 2025
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Kemi Oyewole

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow investigates impact of instructional coaching

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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From English learners to English teachers

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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Penn CLO graduate unites passions for teaching and advocacy

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.

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