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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 Zachary Herrmann

Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Team effectiveness
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Project-based learning
  • Negotiation
Penn GSE Faculty Janine Remillard

Professor

  • Mathematics teaching and learning
  • Rehumanizing mathematics and mathematics identity
  • Teachers' use of mathematics curriculum materials
  • Teaching and teacher education
  • Urban education
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
Penn GSE Faculty Diana Wildermuth

Lecturer in Educational Practice

  • School counseling
  • Ethics in counseling
  • Mental health in athletes
  • Resilience
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 Karen Weaver

Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • College athletics
  • Higher education
  • Oversight and reform
  • Public policy
  • Presidential leadership
  • Sports finance
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 Jen McLaughlin Cahill

Lecturer in Educational Practice

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 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 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

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