December 5, 2019
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Penn GSE Facilitates a Conversation on Learning and Character at Homecoming

Character, collaboration, and project-based learning were topics of conversation when best-selling author and Penn professor Angela Duckworth joined Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman for a discussion during Penn’s Homecoming Weekend.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
December 5, 2019
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Teacher Brendon Jobs in the classroom with two high-school aged students.

Taking an antiracist stance in the classroom

Penn GSE instructor Brendon Jobs writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the obligations for antiracist educators.

  • Teaching & Learning
November 6, 2019
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Celebrating Educators

Alumni and friends celebrated the extraordinary impact of Penn GSE at the School’s annual Celebration of Educators.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
August 29, 2019
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400 years after slaves were brought to America, few Americans know the truth about slavery

In interviews with The Washington Post and Vox, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas said a narrative sympathetic to the Confederacy and slavers spread misinformation in schooling.

 

  • Teaching & Learning
August 22, 2019
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A teacher and a student work on a problem.

Ideas for teachers heading back to school

Take a look at these practical tips from the Educator’s Playbook you can use in the classroom this year.

 

  • Teaching & Learning
July 5, 2019
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Philadelphia Writing Project hosts Kid Writing Institute

Language teachers from around the country spent four days at Penn GSE learning the approach that gives teachers and children ‘a common language.’

 

  • Teaching & Learning
May 6, 2019
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Getting to the Core of Project-Based Learning: Penn GSE Supports a National Network of Teachers

Penn GSE is taking the lead in helping educators across the country hone their skills in project-based instruction through a new certificate program and a related research project.

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
January 25, 2019
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Leveling the playing field in dual-language programs

Penn GSE's Nelson Flores advocates for dismantling hierarchies between racialized and elite bilingualism in schools.

 

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
January 18, 2019
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Award-winner Ryan Baker looks to the future in online learning

Ryan Baker received the 2018 Educational Research Award from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

 

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
January 14, 2019
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Penn GSE Receives $8.6 M in 2018 to Prepare Teachers of the Future

Penn GSE has received $8.6 M in 2018 to support its teacher education programs, including grants for student scholarships and the development of innovative coursework and fieldwork for the School’s Urban Teacher Apprenticeship Program (UTAP).

  • Teaching & Learning
  • Faces of Philanthropy

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