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TIP Fellow Awarded Science Grants May 25, 2023 – Posted in: Uncategorized

In the world of science education, exceptional teachers like Eual Phillips inspire the next generation of scientific minds. An educator at Hill-Freedman World Academy, Eual has been recognized for his outstanding contributions with a series of prestigious grants in 2023. As a teacher of 10th and 12th-grade chemistry and environmental science, Eual joined the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (TIP) as a fellow in 2016 in the seminar “The Evolving Universe.” In this seminar, he produced…

TIP Fellows Visit Seventh Ward, Site of W. E. B. Du Bois’ Famed Study April 26, 2023 – Posted in: Uncategorized

As part of her TIP seminar, Penn Professor Amy Hillier led her fellows on a walking tour of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward. The area, which covers the blocks between Spruce and South Street from 6th to 23rd Street was once home to thousands of African Americans, many of whom migrated from the South in search of better opportunities in the North. The tour focused on the research of distinguished sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist, W.E.B.…

TIP Presents at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Meeting in Chicago April 19, 2023 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Teachers Institute of Philadelphia presented curriculum development work as part of a symposium at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 14. The annual event, which took place in Chicago this year, showcases groundbreaking studies across a wide range of areas of educational research. TIP was part of a group of Teachers Institutes from around the country that organized a symposium entitled “Teachers as Co-Constructors of Truth, Knowledge, and Curriculum: Exploring…

TIP Unit Explores the Identities of Latin Americans of Asian Descent March 30, 2023 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Alisha Davis, an educator at Constitution High School and TIP fellow, is using her passion for teaching to explore the experiences of Latin Americans of Asian descent and challenge her students’ beliefs about belonging and identity. Davis teaches AP U.S. Government and Politics and World History to grades 10-12. In spring 2022, Davis joined the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (TIP) as a fellow in the seminar “Asian Americans in U.S. Schools.” Through the program, she…

Science Education Advocate: Chloe Glynn – Posted in: Uncategorized

Chloe Glynn, a biology and environmental science teacher at Horace Furness High School and TIP fellow, was honored with a $10,000 Pittcon Science Week Grant in 2023 that will be used for the expansion of student projects in solar and wind energy solutions. Pittcon, an abbreviation for the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytic Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, has been generously contributing 90% of their annual conference fees towards supporting science education initiatives for almost 75 years,…

Seminar Leader Howarth on the Ohio Train Derailment March 16, 2023 – Posted in: Uncategorized

TIP seminar leader and University Advisory Council (UAC) member Marilyn Howarth was recently quoted in Vox on the effects of the train derailment in Ohio. Earlier this month, 100,000 gallons of dangerous chemicals spilled into the air and water of East Palestine, Ohio after a Norfolk Southern train was derailed. Today, as residents of East Palestine return home, they are raising concerns about the long-term effects of the disaster. Some individuals have already reported smelling…

Units Posted from Fall Curriculum Lab March 1, 2023 – Posted in: Uncategorized

The curriculum units for the 2022 Fall Curriculum Lab seminars are now posted under 2022 Curriculum Units. The 2022 Fall Curriculum Lab seminars were Global Environmental Challenges and Potential Solutions; Social Justice, Monuments, Museums, and Heritage; and What Makes Something a Number. Global Environmental Challenges and Potential Solutions, taught by Earth and Environmental Science Professor, Reto Giere, covered several topics around our environmental footprint and ways to lower our consumption of resources in pursuit of…

Seminar Leader Reto Gieré Featured in Penn Today for Research on Charcoal November 17, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Reto Gieré, fall 2022 seminar leader, was just featured in Penn Today for his research on the charcoal supply chain and how it can be made more sustainable. At TIP, Gieré, Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, taught a seminar titled “Global Environmental Challenges and Potential Solutions.” In this course, participants analyzed current global waste streams and ways they can help diminish environmental and climate impacts of daily life, agriculture, manufacturing, and…

The Celebration of Writing and Literacy 2022 October 27, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

On Saturday, October 15th, the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia in conjunction with The Philadelphia Writing Project and the Penn Museum, hosted the annual Celebration of Writing and Literacy focusing on teacher research and knowledge. This year’s theme was Teaching Environmental Justice, where educators in all disciplines explored how they can teach their students the effects of climate change and environmental contamination and ways to take action on these issues. Keynote speaker, Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished…

TIP Fellows Inspire climate action through storytelling July 27, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

10 Philadelphia teachers have been working with TIP seminar leader and founder of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities(PPEH) Bethany Wiggin to bring climate education into their classrooms. Six of those teachers are current/former TIP fellows. Workshops began in late June and as teachers planned their curriculum, their commitment to teaching their students civic engagement and climate literacy grew stronger. Prof. Wiggin plans to use the curriculum this group of teachers creates as a model…

TIP fellows attend International Robotics conference July 13, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

TIP seminar leader Cynthia Sung took fellows enrolled in her Soft Robots seminar to the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) this summer. The annual conference “brings together the world’s top researchers and most important companies to share ideas and advances in the fields of robotics and automation.” Fellows visited the conference’s exhibition hall where 96 robotics-related companies had large booths to show off their products and recruit. To learn more about the conference…

TIP Fellows Present at District-wide Professional Development Sessions May 6, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

This spring, three TIP fellows conducted workshops at the School District of Philadelphia’s “Tune-Up Tuesday” sessions in March and April. The twice-monthly, peer-led events enable teachers from around the District to improve their knowledge of both content and pedagogy. These sessions are organized by the District’s Office of Teaching and Learning and are held virtually on Zoom. TIP presenters led sessions on their curriculum units from various seminars. On March 8 and 22, Robert Amezola-Rivera…

TIP Teacher Helps Create a South Philly Mural May 2, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (TIP) fellow and Philadelphia public school teacher Lisa Yau and her students helped mural artist Shira Walinsky create a vibrant addition to South Philadelphia’s streetscape. One of many projects Yau has undertaken that link the arts to literacy, the mural Routing for You is an example of how TIP teachers inject interdisciplinary thinking and cultural diversity into the School District of Philadelphia curriculum. Routing for You, which adorns a wall opposite…

TIP FELLOW MONICA ROWLEY honored March 21, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

This year TIP Fellow Monica Rowley received a $1,475 Dixie Goswami Bread Loaf Teacher Network Action Grant from Middlebury College. She will use the funds to build and diversify her classroom library at Julia Reynolds Masterman School. Monica is an 8th grade English Literacy teacher. Last June Rowley was also honored by Northwestern University for her personal and professional commitment. She was nominated as a Distinguished Secondary School Teacher by one of her former students,…

TIP Seminar Leader Karen Redrobe speaks with “new books network” March 15, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

TIP Seminar Leader Karen Redrobe spoke with the New Books Network about a book in film she and coeditor Jeff Scheible wrote called Deep Meditations. Their book includes 18 essays that argue the notion that “depth” is multivalent in the field of the humanities. Deep Mediations brings together the work of leading scholars who collectively navigate the legacies of depth models of thought and vision, particularly in light of the “surface turn” and as these models…

Barnes Exhibition Displays Art Discussed in TIP Seminar February 26, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

The Barnes Foundation exhibition Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community, co-curated by TIP seminar leader Lucy Fowler Williams, is showcasing the work of Southwest Native Americans covered in her fall 2021 TIP seminar Southwest Native American Art and Culture. Fowler Williams is Associate Curator and Jeremy A. Sabloff Senior Keeper of American Collections at the Penn Museum. She organized the exhibition with Tony Chavarria, Curator of Ethnology at the Museum of Indian Arts…

Seminar Leader bethany wiggin develops tools for watershed activism February 2, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

2019 TIP seminar leader Bethany Wiggin spoke with Penn Today about her collaboration with the Independence Seaport Museum (ISM). Prof. Wiggin is the founding director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) which fosters interdisciplinary environmental collaboration and scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond. This year PPEH and ISM have issued a call for proposals to search for tools that “might be used by inhabitants of the Delaware river watershed…

TIP Seminar Leader Rogers Smith Weighs in on Capitol Riot January 12, 2022 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Political scientist, seminar leader and TIP founder Rogers M. Smith was interviewed by Penn Today on the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2020. He said that it was “part of a concerted effort to overturn the election results,” and the most serious such attempt in U.S. history. Smith also noted that since the insurrection, supporters of former president Donald Trump have been spreading false claims about what happened, saying the rioters were peaceful, that they…

Teachers Share their units at fall plenary session December 20, 2021 – Posted in: Uncategorized

This fall’s cohort of Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (TIP) fellows will bring new ideas and new inspiration to their students when they enter the classroom in January 2022. During TIP’s 10-week fall curriculum lab, these TIP fellows gained cutting-edge knowledge from Penn and Temple professors and turned it into curriculum units that they will teach to their students during the spring term. On Wednesday, December 22 at 4:30pm, via Zoom, the group will present their…

TIP Fellows Present at the Celebration of Writing and Literacy October 25, 2021 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Eight TIP Fellows presented at the annual Celebration of Writing and Literacy (COWL) on October 16-17, 2021. Most shared curriculum units they’d written during TIP seminars and used in their classroom. This year’s theme, Making Stories Visible, invited participants to bring to light what had been obscured during a year of pandemic and political turmoil. TIP presenters were: Cancer: Examining Scars of Inequity Chris Sikich, Philadelphia High School for Girls Catherine Michini, Philadelphia High School…