January 7, 2025
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Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore

Penn CLO graduate unites passions for teaching and advocacy

Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore has worked with the UN, established a foundation advocating for youth and women’s rights, and now works as a research scholar. She says Penn CLO’s practitioner–scholar approach has had a profound impact on her work.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
December 20, 2024
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Four photos in a square over the text “Penn GSE 2024 Stories.” Clockwise from top left: Dean Katharine Strunk, a man sitting in the back of a classroom with data superimposed over him, PLN Director Lara Paparo speaking into a microphone with Thinkify executives seated beside her, and Associate Professor Brooks Bowden.

Our top stories of 2024

Look back with us at some of the stories that defined 2024 for our community.

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  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
  • News from Penn GSE
December 18, 2024
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An illustration of a smartphone, magazine, and newspaper with a coronavirus image

The Critical Cultivation of Media Literacy

As teachers and researchers, Penn GSE alumni are at the forefront of the movement to educate savvy news readers who can parse fact from partisan fiction

  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
December 13, 2024
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Randy Hayward holds up a frame containing a boxing robe of Muhammad Ali using white gloves to share it with a group of students.

The Museum As Classroom

Penn GSE alumni use their passion for education to teach learners of all ages through exhibits, outreach, and special collections.

 

 
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  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
November 15, 2024
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Portrait of Michael Gottfried, standing with arms crossed, smiling, with bookshelves in the background.

Michael Gottfried links rising absenteeism to declining teacher satisfaction

As reported in Education Week, Gottfried finds chronic student absenteeism disrupts classroom dynamics, damages teacher-student relationships, and steadily erodes teacher job satisfaction.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
November 7, 2024
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Sade Bonilla named inaugural Faculty Research Director for Penn GSE’s Office of School and Community Engagement

The appointment is part of an expansion of the office focused on research to drive the School’s community engagement efforts.

  • Philadelphia Impact
  • Together for Good
  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Teaching & Learning
November 6, 2024
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Lara Paparo seated alongside Thinkist executives Jared Wells and Mark Manasse, speaking into a microphone.

Penn Literacy Network aims to shake up tutoring industry with innovative partnership

The collaboration with public benefits corporation Thinkist is funded with a four-year, $2.2 million Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

  • Together for Good
  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Teaching & Learning
November 3, 2024
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UTR students and Philadelphia youth in the VAST LIFE program during a recent trip to the Franklin Institute.

Urban Teaching Residency program helps working educators connect theory to practice

Participants learn pedagogical approaches in their UTR courses in the evening that they can immediately apply in the classrooms in which they teach.

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  • Together for Good
  • Teaching & Learning
October 31, 2024
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A large group of more than 30 academics from Penn GSE and University of Guadalajara pose for a group photo with the Ben Franklin statue on Penn’s campus.

Penn GSE, University of Guadalajara extend partnership to enhance literacy and civic engagement

The institutions’ memorandum of understanding is being renewed following a literacy and community engagement research conference held at Penn Oct. 14–15.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Language, Literacy & Culture
  • Teaching & Learning
October 17, 2024
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Amy Stornaiuolo speaks into a microphone on stage in front of an audience at the 2024 Celebration of Writing and Literacy with the conference logo on a screen behind her.

Philly teachers explore education in the age of AI at PhilWP’s annual Celebration of Writing and Literacy

K–12 and college educators discussed the promise and pitfalls of AI at the conference.

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