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  • Discussing nondiscussables

    John D'Auria offers two strategies school leaders can use to turn conflict into open dialogue. 

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  • How monolingual teachers can support bilingual students

    Penn GSE’s Nelson Flores says that all teachers can do more to elevate the value of bilingualism in their classrooms. 

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  • The Graduate School of Education gets HEARD

    The Hub for Equity, Anti-Oppression, Research, and Development (HEARD) is established to draw together members of our community committed to equity and anti-oppression scholarship, and to provide opportunities for continuing learning. 

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  • Ten years of Penn GSE fieldwork in Kazakhstan

    Alan Ruby, a Senior Fellow at Penn GSE and senior scholar with Penn AHEAD, reflects on helping launch Kazakhstan’s first research intensive English language university.

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  • Mining for data gold: Ph.D. student digs Into research on MOOCs

    Juan Miguel Andres, a Ph.D. student in Penn GSE’s Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education program, Andres explores data on massive open online course (MOOC) student behavior. Ninety percent of the eighty million people who enrolled in MOOCs never complete the course.

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  • CMSI receives $50,000 gift from tech companies to support women of color in MSI Aspiring Leaders program

    The Center for Minority Serving Institutions’ (CMSI) gift comes from donations from Intel, HP, Apple, Pinterest, and Samsung, in support of its effort to diversify industry and senior leadership. 

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  • Penn GSE and Aditya Birla Education Academy partner to train teachers in India in online and blended learning

    Thirty teachers from ABEA will launch a version of the Virtual Online Learning and Teaching Certificate Program, beginning with an intensive training session, virtual one-on-one training, and in-person instruction in Mumbai.

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  • Penn GSE receives grant to train STEM teachers for high-needs schools

    A new partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Pennsylvania Teaching Fellowship will allow Fellows to receive a stipend, training and mentoring in a three-year program, supported by the William Penn Foundation and the Weiss Family Foundation, to prepare and support STEM teachers working in high-needs urban and rural schools.

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  • Howard Brown’s journey from Wall Street to a high school classroom

    The second-year public school teacher, who recently completed his first course in Penn GSE’s Education Entrepreneurship master’s program, left a lucrative Wall Street career to teach at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School.

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  • In a reverse, high school students give teacher apprentices a lesson

    This summer, students from the high school are participating in a “reverse internship” at Penn GSE, giving their perspective about school and life to new students in Penn GSE’s Urban Teaching Apprentice Program.

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