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HGSE is a learning community that extends far beyond the classroom and campus — one that includes students, faculty, alumni, and staff members, as well as educators in the field. We're focused on opening opportunities for impact in a broad range of ways — whether it's developing new skills as an educator and leader, interacting with high-impact scholars, collaborating across boundaries on new solutions and field-facing applications, or growing your career.
HGSE’s flagship speaker series, convening education leaders on campus to explore pressing topics and issues affecting schools, universities, families, and communities
A free broadcast series and newsletter offering actionable insights on challenges across the education landscape
A venue to celebrate new publications and engage in critical discussion of current issues
A series exploring significant questions and insights in education research and policy
An event that annually honors Jeanne Chall’s enormous contributions to the teaching, featuring a leading researcher in the field
The publisher of education books, a newsletter, and Voices in Education blog, and host of topical events featuring education scholars
A hands-on space for inventing, designing, tinkering, and experimenting with new technologies and maker-based approaches
The hub for entrepreneurs across the university
Seeding fresh pedagogical approaches and encouraging transformative education ideas
HGSE’s own incubator for innovation
Provides funding to allow students and alumni to work full-time on their entrepreneurial ventures during the summer months. Apply by April 22, 2024
A multi-day, student-led convening to raise awareness of the educational issues affecting communities of color
A student-led national education research conference
Innovative discussions, projects, and curriculum at the intersection of hip-hop and pedagogy
A program fostering global knowledge by bringing international leaders to HGSE
A scholarly journal of opinion and research in education, with an editorial board composed of HGSE doctoral students
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Developing innovative instructional resources for the HGSE community and teachers across the field of education.
Develops innovative and effective approaches to teaching and learning at HGSE — with many ways for students to get involved
Helps you incorporate high-leverage teaching practices — from building classroom community to effective lecturing to fostering good discussion
Helping faculty develop the dispositions, knowledge, and skills to engage in anti-racist practices, to disrupt and dismantle racism, and to empower students to do the same
A learning community for white-identified faculty who want to learn more about how their whiteness impacts an understanding of race and racism
There are limitless ways to extend your learning by becoming involved in student organizations and student leadership.