In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Philadelphia artist Symone Salib created the 13x14-foot mural in partnership with faculty at Central Montco Technical High School (CMTHS) faculty, the CMTHS Student Equity Crew, which is a group of students that work to promote equity and inclusion in the school's community, and the Penn Consortium for Mental Health and Optimal Development at Penn GSE.
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The Penn GSE professor’s book, “Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn,” co-written with editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson, has been honored with a gold prize in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award program’s “Political & Current Events” category.
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Penn GSE, the School District of Philadelphia, and Temple University are launching a new leadership program designed to prepare School District of Philadelphia employees to become school principals and education leaders. The Pathway to Leadership Principal Preparation Program will begin with the first cohort of students in summer 2022.
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In choosing the Seventh Annual Best Books for Young Readers list, curators Rabani Garg and Sibylla Shekerdjiska-Benatova focus on authors and illustrators whose brought stories cover the histories and experiences of the many different communities to the fore in real, empathetic ways.
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Penn GSE’s Karen Weaver, an expert on college sports as they intersect with higher education management, media, and policy, as well as a former Division I and Division III head coach and athletics administrator, discusses the upcoming changes to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) structure and governance.
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Through the Penn GSE Empowerment Through Education Scholarship Program, Penn GSE will provide significant funding for several students in the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership and the Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program each year, awarding the scholarship to individuals who would not otherwise be able to consider enrolling in those programs.
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Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman was recently named Vice President of the National Academy of Education, an organization dedicated to advancing high-quality education research and evidence-based policy. Additionally, two Penn GSE Professors—Howard Stevenson and Nancy Hornberger—were inducted into the Academy in November.
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Readlee, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to improve academic outcomes by listening to students read, won the grand prize at the 12th anniversary Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. HomeWorks Trenton, a community-based, after-school residential program that provides academic and social-emotional enrichment activities while empowering marginalized high school girls in their community, won the American Public University System Prize.
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This year’s winners are Richard Baraniuk, Doug and Lynn Fuchs, and Carol D. Lee. for their achievements in higher education, preK-12 education, and learning science.
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Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Educational Policy division at Penn GSE and J. Jacob Kirkse’s article, “Going to sleep and going to school: Linking bedtime to student absenteeism” sets out to explore three primary questions: whether a regular bedtime links to better attendance, whether the hour of bedtime matters, and whether school start time links to better attendance.
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