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Penn GSE Faculty Xinyin Chen

Professor

  • Children’s socioemotional development
  • Peer relationships
  • Parenting and family influences
  • Cross-cultural developmental psychology
  • Cultural and biological factors in development
Penn GSE Faculty Alesha Gayle

Senior Fellow

  • Digital literacy
  • Urban education, high-needs schools
  • Schools and neighborhood change
Penn GSE Faculty Christopher Pupik Dean

Senior Fellow

  • Teacher education
  • Teacher professional development
  • Citizenship education
  • Ethical issues in education
  • Philosophy of education
Penn GSE Faculty Charlotte E. Jacobs

Director, Independent School Teaching Residency

  • Adolescent development
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Independent school education
  • Multicultural education
  • Gender and education
  • Teacher education
Penn GSE Faculty Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher

Senior Lecturer

  • (Im)migrants and schooling
  • Civic engagement
  • Anti-Muslim racism/Islamophobia
  • Citizenship and trans/nationalism
  • Curriculum and pedagogy in international contexts
  • School climate
  • Educational development discourse
Penn GSE Faculty María Cioè-Peña

Assistant Professor

  • Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit)
  • Bilingual special education
  • Special education
  • Bilingual education
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Latinx/immigrant issues
Penn GSE Faculty Julie E. Wollman

Professor of Practice

  • Leading in higher education
  • The college presidency
  • Higher education strategy
  • Change management
  • College access
  • College and university boards
  • Perceptions of higher education
  • Women’s leadership
Penn GSE Faculty Alan R. Ruby

Senior Fellow

  • Education reform at all levels of the education system
  • Taking education reform and innovation to scale
  • Educational programs and finance strategies to support less advantaged groups
  • Globalization, international student mobility, and international education
Penn GSE Faculty Ericka S. Weathers

Assistant Professor

  • K-12 education policy
  • School segregation
  • Truancy
  • Special education
  • K-12 school finance
Penn GSE Faculty Damani White-Lewis

Assistant Professor

  • Faculty careers & academe
  • Racial equity
  • Organizational behavior
  • Institutional and departmental change
  • Experimental and quasi-experimental design
  • Case study methodology
Penn GSE Faculty Sade Bonilla

Assistant Professor

  • Economics of education
  • Urban education policy
  • Policy evaluation
  • Career and technical education
  • Ethnic studies
  • High school to college transitions
  • Quasi-experimental methods
Penn GSE Faculty Michael J. Nakkula

Professor of Practice

  • Adolescent development
  • Risk and resilience
  • Counseling and prevention
  • Youth mentoring

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