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Panel headlines Women of Color in Higher Education Summit
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Panel headlines Women of Color in Higher Education Summit

The seventh annual Women of Color in Higher Education Summit provided information, perspectives, practical advice, and networking and mentorship opportunities exclusively to women and nonbinary people of color from Penn GSE and SP2.

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Six takeaways from two years of online learning
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Six takeaways from two years of online learning

As two full years of this explosion in virtual learning approaches, Penn GSE associate professor and director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics Ryan Baker shares some thoughts on best practices, and which practices should be avoided.

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Six tips to help explain the realities of war to children
A concerned young child sitting on a couch listening to an adult.

Six tips to help explain the realities of war to children

Explaining the complex emotions and realities of war to children is a daunting and challenging task, but not impossible, says Penn GSE’s Marsha Richardson.

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Briana Nichols focuses her work not on migrants, but on the people who stay
Briana Nichols stands among a group of twelve people in Guatemala.

(Pre-pandemic image) Briana Nichols with a group of young women who participated in a weekly collaborative workshop with her. (Image: Penn GSE)

Briana Nichols focuses her work not on migrants, but on the people who stay

When Briana Nichols, a joint doctoral candidate in Penn GSE and anthropology, started working within communities of extensive migration, she says the thing they cared about the most was what it took to not migrate.

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Sharon Wolf’s work in Ghana expands to address pandemic-related inequalities
Sharon Wolf gesturing with her hands speaking to someone in an office.

Penn GSE assistant professor Sharon Wolf. (Image: Penn GSE)

Sharon Wolf’s work in Ghana expands to address pandemic-related inequalities

The assistant professor at Penn GSE applies research of children, their primary caregiver, and teachers throughout the pandemic about their experiences with remote schooling to a new approach in controlling learning opportunities before gaps in learning form.

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Centering Black students in language education
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Flores was a co-organizer of a conference at Penn examining equity for Black students in language education. 

Centering Black students in language education

Ensuring equity for Black students in language education was the focus of a conference co-organized by the Graduate School of Education’s Nelson Flores, an expert in bilingual education.