July 23, 2018
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Creating Through Electronic Textiles and DNA: Penn GSE’s Dr. Yasmin Kafai Advances Active Learning

Whether she uses e-textiles, video games, or—most recently—synthetic biology to improve learning, Dr. Yasmin Kafai focuses on access, creativity, and community.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
June 14, 2018
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Representing slavery in children’s literature

Penn GSE's Ebony Elizabeth Thomas discusses her work exploring depictions of slavery in children’s books.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
June 1, 2018
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Penn GSE launches Collaboratory for Teacher Education

Penn GSE recently launched an exciting new initiative that grounds three of its renowned teacher education programs in the Collaboratory – a laboratory for the design, implementation, and study of experimental approaches to teacher education. 

 

  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
May 14, 2018
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Vote for Penn GSE projects in National Science Foundation STEM For All Video Showcase

Yasmin Kafai and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education are competing in the STEM For All Video Showcase, with viewer’s choice voting open May 14-21. 

 

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
May 10, 2018
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Listening to the needs of Black male teachers

In his forthcoming book, the Collaboratory’s Ed Brockenbrough explores the unique challenges Black male teachers face.

 

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Teaching & Learning
March 12, 2018
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Building STEM skills with LEGOS

Penn GSE Ph.D. student Kendrick Davis served as the head judge for Philadelphia's FIRST LEGO League tournament.

 

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
March 8, 2018
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Penn GSE alums lead Philly students on exploration of mass incarceration in the US

Penn GSE's Urban Teaching Apprentice Program sponsored the Second Annual Mass Incarceration Symposium in January. 

 

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
February 14, 2018
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Penn GSE alumna named Superintendent of Omaha Public Schools

Cheryl Logan had been serving as the School District of Philadelphia's Chief Academic Officer.

 

  • Teaching & Learning
January 19, 2018
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Teaching students to be more respectful than the president

Writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jonathan Zimmerman says teachers need to show students why they can argue for Trump’s policies but not talk like him, at least not in school.

 

  • Teaching & Learning
November 29, 2017
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Annual writing and literacy conference brings Philadelphia educators to Penn GSE

The Teacher Research and Knowledge: A Celebration of Writing and Literacy conference, co-sponsored by Penn GSE's PhilWP and the Teacher Education and Reading/Writing/Literacy programs, emphasized teacher knowledge in reading and literacy practices.  

 

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Teaching & Learning

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