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    Leading in a Time of Change

    John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., reflects on what transformational leadership requires now—and why this moment demands more than business as usual in the first installment in a two-part series.

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    2020 McGraw Prize winners Estela Bensimon, Michelene Chi, and Joseph Krajcik
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    Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Announces 2020 Winners: Estela Bensimon, Michelene Chi, and Joseph Krajcik

    One of the most prestigious prizes in education recognizes outstanding achievement in pre-K– 12 education, higher education, and learning science research.

    Penn President Amy Gutmann, Suzanne McGraw, Harold McGraw III, GSE Dean Pam Grossman, and Catalyst Director Michael Golden at the McGraw Prize launch event in February 2020.
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    Three educators celebrated at Penn GSE as winners of the 2020 McGraw Prize in Education

    In the first celebration of the McGraw Prize in Education since the University of Pennsylvania became home to the award, President Amy Gutmann said this year’s three winners are among the “great minds devoted to improving education through innovation.”

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    School Restart & the Importance of Involving Parents

    How do schools plan ahead for possible interruptions and re-starts to the 2020-21 school year due to COVID-19 outbreaks?

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    How will the National Leap into Remote Learning Change the Trajectory of Education?

    Learn how Julie Young led the nation in moving K–12 teaching and learning online as the founding President and CEO of Florida Virtual School.

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    Remaking the Culture of College for Learning & Success

    Is it possible to reshape the culture and the deep architecture around these values, in spite of their underlying business models, labor models, politics, and competing interests?

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    Leveraging Data to Close the Higher Education Opportunity Gap

    For the past decade, Georgia State University has been at the leading edge of demographic shifts in the southeast. While doubling the numbers of non-white and low-income students it enrolls, the university has simultaneously committed to use data to inform systematic institutional change.

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    Engineering Equity in K–12 STEM Education

    This session explores a set of research-based inclusive curricular design principles for the creation of engineering curricula.