Commencement 2013

The end of the school year has arrived. And, although we are still accepting applications for most of our master's programs--don't delay, click sumbit today!--another class of talented educators will be leaving GSE very shortly.

• GSE's commencement ceremony is tomorrow, Saturday, May 10th, 2013. Lord David Puttnam will give the  commencement address.
   
• Penn's commencement ceremony, featuring Vice President Joe Biden as the commencement speaker, is Monday, May 13th, 2013.
• And, this weekend is Alumni Weekend for all Penn alumni, with events going on throughout the next few days. We hope that some of our alums are coming back to campus to celebrate with us.

Congratulations and best wishes to all of our graduates! You have inspired us (your GSE staff, faculty, and fellow students) and we can't wait to see the positive impact you will have in the field of Education as you go forth from GSE.


Additionally, as always, a couple newsworthy happenings:
Local Lea Elementary School students benefiting from:

• Both A partnership forged by GSE Professor John Fantuzzo
• AND GSE student-teachers from our Teacher Education Program

GSE Faculty in the News

We always like to update you on the neat things our faculty are involved in and the honors they are receiving. Here's what's been going on over the past few weeks:

• GSE's Dean, Andy Porter, "hung out" with the Education Writers Association to talk about the public school cheating scandal in Atlanta. See the video here.
• GSE's Associate Dean and Professor, Stanton Wortham, received a Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. See a full list of recipients here.
• GSE's Associate Professor, Janine Remillard, was awarded GSE's Excellence in Teaching award for 2013!

Weekend fun!

The semester is winding down and so is the week. We thought it would be fun to give you a sampling of some things going on this wonderful Earth Day weekend.

The Philly experts on what's going on around town are the Uwishunu folks, so always be sure to see what they've found: http://www.uwishunu.com/ including the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and the Philadelphia Science Festival among many other happenings.

At Penn, we are celebrating surpassing our Making History campaign goal, with the Time to Shine event. It will take place in Penn Park and feature many student groups as well as Train and John Legend. (We just hope that the sun keeps shining so that we won't be celebrating in the rain!)

At GSE, we are hosting our annual HBCU/HSI (Historically Black Colleges & Universities/Hispanic-Serving Institutions) weekend, where we welcome students from HBCUs and HSIs across the country to join us on campus and learn more about GSE. Admissions and Financial Aid staff members LaToya Floyd & Karima Williams, Higher Education Professor Marybeth Gasman, and current GSE students will be spending time with these prospective scholars!

On the web, we are keeping up with our favorite bloggers. Not only should you take sometime to check out our current student blogs (linked at the right), but one of our very favorite food bloggers (none other than our Director of Admissions, Alyssa D'Alconzo) is the front-runner in a cookie contest. Help her snag first place by voting! For more details on the contest and how to vote on Facebook, check out her latest blog post.

Have a great weekend!

GSE in the News!

Here are some of the things GSE Faculty and Students have been up to recently:

• GSE students in the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership will travel to Finland and France in the coming weeks led by Jon Supovitz (GSE Associate Professor and CPRE co-director) and Joe Mazza (GSE student and Knapp Elementary School Principal). The students will use social media to share their experiences and welcome interaction! Click here to read more about their trip and how you can join the conversation.

• GSE students in Marybeth Gasman's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Historical and Current Issues class are working hard to help the future of  of Morris Brown College in Atlanta. Through their research they are also writing a book about the contemporary issues at HBCUs. To read more about the challenges facing Morris Brown that the class is addressing, click here.

  Also, visit our student blogger Marcus' blog, for an interview with GSE's Dean, Andy Porter: http://marcusedu.blogspot.com/2013/04/interview-with-penn-gse-dean-andrew.html

We're going to Miami!

Are you an accepted student living in south Florida?


Meet Associate Professor Kathy Hall, the Director of Admissions, and local alumni in Miami for dinner and our final off-campus preview event this year to learn more about our school, University, and city!

Monday, April 8th 7:00pm-9:00pm
Click here for details and to RSVP

And hurry, the deadline to RSVP is Wednesday, April 3rd at noon EST!