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Penn GSE Faculty Earl Ball

Senior Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor

  • Governance issues in schools
  • Teacher professional development
  • Independent schools
  • Leadership identification and development
  • Curriculum innovation and design
Penn GSE Faculty Vivian L. Gadsden

William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education

  • Literacy and at-risk youth
  • Fathers and families
  • Intergenerational learning
  • Parental engagement
Penn GSE Faculty Zachary Herrmann

Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Team effectiveness
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Project-based learning
  • Negotiation
Penn GSE Faculty John L. Puckett

Professor Emeritus of Education

  • Civic education and community schooling
  • University-community relations
  • The American research university
  • The American high school
  • History of American education
Penn GSE Faculty Linda M. Pheng

Assistant Professor

  • Community-based education
  • Education of refugee and immigrant youth
  • Race, class, and stratification
  • Ethnographic research
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Asian/Southeast Asian American issues
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 Katharine O. Strunk

Dean, Graduate School of Education

  • K–12 education governance
  • Teachers’ unions
  • Collective bargaining agreements
  • Portfolio management models
  • Teacher labor markets
  • School turnaround policies
Penn GSE Faculty Betty Chandy

Director for Online Learning, Catalyst @ Penn GSE

  • Technology enhanced teaching
  • Teacher professional learning
  • Computational thinking
  • Design of learning environments
Penn GSE Faculty Jenny Zapf

Senior Fellow

  • Entrepreneurship in Education
  • Evaluation for Innovation
  • Adaptive Rapid-Cycle Research Design
  • Non-Profit Management
  • University-Community Partnerships
Penn GSE Faculty John W. Fantuzzo

Albert M. Greenfield Emeritus Professor of Human Relations

  • Early childhood education, Head Start
  • Learning-to-Learn competencies that foster classroom engagement
  • Use of Integrated Data Systems for social policy research
  • Early childhood risk including child maltreatment, family violence, homelessness
Penn GSE Faculty L. Michael Golden

Executive Director, Catalyst @ Penn GSE

  • Education innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Educational technology
  • Personalized, blended, problem-based learning
  • Policy and systems change
  • Convergence of education, technology, and business
  • Research to practice implementation
  • Career connected learning
Penn GSE Faculty Jonathan Zimmerman

Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education

  • History/Politics of education
  • “Culture Wars” in American and global contexts
  • Sex, sexuality, and schools
  • Campus protests
  • College teaching
  • Education and historical memory
  • History of Medicine

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