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With many young children spending more time at home due to COVID-19, Penn GSE Reading/Writing/Literacy doctoral student Daris McInnis offers these 14 activities that will help parents build these literacy skills with their children and have fun in the process.
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Penn GSE’s Jonathan Supovitz and John D’Auria have created Leading Improvement in Challenging Times, a guide and companion video to help leaders collaborate within their districts, schools, and teams to address questions of equity, access, technology, pedagogy, and social-emotional support.
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Estela Bensimon, Michelene Chi, and Joseph Krajcik are the recipients of one of the most prestigious prizes in education recognizes outstanding achievement in pre-K-12 education, higher education, and learning science research.
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Briana Nichols, Jessica Peng, Chelsea Chamberlain, and Peter Francis Harvey were awarded the honor for their dissertations, which present fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education throughout the world.
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After teaching in schools and nonprofit literacy programs, and looking at new ways to serve marginalized communities, McInnis has been named a Tillman Scholar. He is the first Penn GSE student, and is believed to be the first Black Penn student, to receive the honor.
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This spring, Penn GSE doctoral student Rabani Garg created a list of the best children’s books about Ramadan that resonate with both Muslim and non-Muslim readers.
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College instructors have moved their courses online, but Penn GSE’s Sharon Ravitch says they need to do more to meet their students' needs during this pandemic.
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Stay-at-home orders have left many families struggling without routines or rhythms. Creating a schedule for your family can be a way to regain, even in a small way, a sense of order and normalcy.
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Penn GSE’s Krystal Strong, an expert in youth leadership in African countries, told the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, that this “youth bulge” of Africans under the age of 30 represents a huge opportunity for African societies and the U.S., but only if a path to leadership can be opened for them.
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Five Penn GSE scholars share tools to bring restorative justice tools—problem-solving centered on responsibility, nuance, and growth—to students and teachers.
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