We foster the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to create new schools, launch ed tech ventures, and drive innovation in educational organizations and corporations around the world.
Our incubators, certificate and degree programs, and other initiatives tap into a human-centered approach to driving innovation and growth.
Research and Action Initiatives
Penn GSE is a pioneer in innovation and entrepreneurship in education. We are passionate about developing new approaches to address pressing problems in education and to shape the future of education across preK–12, higher education, and learning for working professionals.
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Catalyst
A center for global education innovation and impact
We create, test, adapt, and disseminate impactful practices and tools to educators, entrepreneurs, and leaders to eliminate opportunity, achievement, and attainment disparities and support equitable outcomes for all learners.
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Catalyst Community Conversations
Catalyst Community Conversations (CCC) develops, implements, and facilitates public deliberative conversations on important issues.
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Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education
The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education celebrates innovation in education by recognizing outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education and whose accomplishments are making a difference today.
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Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition
The EBPC is considered the most prestigious and well-funded education business plan competition, celebrating and nurturing meaningful innovations in education, offering a full range of supports to elevate ideas to the next level and move research into practice.
Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation News
On May 17, in the Palestra, Penn GSE commemorated the achievements of the roughly 600 master’s and doctoral graduates at this year’s Commencement ceremony.
The newly named office in Catalyst @ Penn GSE merges the expertise and expands the impact of two offices: the Penn Literacy Network and the Center for Professional Learning.
From first-time presenters to seasoned scholars, the Penn GSE community showed up big at AERA 2025 with fresh ideas and powerful conversations.
The latest issue of Social Innovations Journal is an outgrowth of the center for global education innovation’s expertise and mission, capitalizing on their deep network of researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and policy leaders.
Two teams of education master’s students were finalists in the co-curricular program at the business school, which brought together students from across the University with varying levels of experience in artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems in just one week.
This spring, those honors include three Spencer Foundation grants, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and more.
Lorea Peterson Rodondo will graduate in May with a dual degree from Penn GSE and Wharton. She discusses her ambition to apply lessons learned to education in her hometown of Mexico City and reflects on her experience at Penn.
The Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice certificate program is a collaboration between Penn GSE and 70 educators around Asia, Africa, and Europe working together on a K–12 education program that emphasizes climate change and social inequalities.
Funded by the NSF, the Create AI workshop aimed to empower students and teachers to build, not just use, AI.