Throughout his career, first as an educator and now as a developer of international social-impact programs, Christopher Ashford, GR’00, has wanted to improve the lives of children.
Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program M.S.Ed., 2018
From my earliest days at Penn GSE, I knew I was going to learn more than how to build a lesson plan. Our first classes introduced us to the neighborhoods where we would do our student teaching and the people who lived there. The message was clear: I wasn’t just here to deliver content. To be successful, I had to connect with students in the school and the community.