GW's Graduate School of Education & Human Development

07/10/2025

Join us in congratulating GSEHD alumna Nicole Golden on her nomination as an International STEAM & Innovation Educator for the 2025 Teachers Fest Awards Night! Representing the American United School of Kuwait, Nicole will be celebrated in Washington, DC at Howard University on July 12, 2025. Learn more:

We will celebrate the hard work of grade school teachers, professors, paraeducators and retirees. Everybody loves teachers!

07/08/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Mina Attia on being elected Vice Chair of the NBCC Foundation Board of Trustees! The NBCC Foundation harnesses the power of counseling to promote global health equity by expanding access to counseling and mental health services.

The NBCC Foundation is bridging the gap in access to quality mental health services through scholarships, fellowships and community capacity-building.

07/04/2025

Have a safe and happy Fourth of July weekend! 💛 💙

07/03/2025

The Educational Leadership and Administration program empowers educators to identify access gaps, implement action research projects and lead measurable change.

07/01/2025

Celebrating alumna Dr. Heather Walter, who received an award from the Spencer Foundation to lead a study on enhancing the well-being of special education teachers. She aims to develop a new tool to measure both occupational burnout and well-being of special education teachers.

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https://bit.ly/4evxhOy

06/27/2025

Alumna Jill Hoppe published a piece for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she is a Research Intern, titled "Faster track, greater benefits: The case for expanding early college high schools".

Read it now!
https://bit.ly/4koFVzP.

06/26/2025

Dr. Joshua Glazer was a guest on the Education by Design podcast. Listen to his episode, titled "Joshua Glazer on 'Improvement by Design: Rethinking How Schools Change".

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Why do so many education reforms fall short of their promise? In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Joshua Glazer of George Washington University unpacks what it really takes to improve schools — not through shortcuts or silver bulle...

06/24/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Elif Kalemdaroglu-Wheeler on being named Principal of Cumberland High School in Virginia! With a wealth of experience in education and leadership, we look forward to seeing her impact in this new role.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4l0dbhK

06/18/2025

Considering graduate school? Join us for a Campus Visit at GW’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development on July 17, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Connect with our admissions team and learn how GSEHD can support your academic and professional goals.

Register today!
https://go.gwu.edu/July-Campus-Visit

06/17/2025

Attend GSEHD's Pride Forum event, "Learning from Pride: Q***r Curriculum at World Pride." This event will feature doctoral candidate Chris Sharp's research, conducted at WorldPride, and takes a creative, post-qualitative approach to q***ring curriculum. WorldPride offers a unique opportunity to explore informal q***r curricula and its impact on q***r identities, subjectivities, and performativities.

Register to attend!

06/13/2025

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Lionel C. Howard, academic dean and professor of education research, will serve as interim dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, effective July 1. Dr. Howard has served GSEHD in administrative and faculty capacities for over 15 years and is equipped with the deep understanding and dedication needed to lead this school during this transitional period.

Read the full announcement ⬇️

Lionel Howard, GSEHD academic dean and professor, has broad administrative leadership experience in the school and is a leading applied developmental psychologist.

06/13/2025

Join us for a book talk with Dr. Gayle Wald on her book "THIS IS RHYTHM: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement". In this book, she shares how musician Ella Jenkins, a “rhythm specialist” with no formal musical training, became the most prolific and significant American children’s musician of the twentieth century.

Register now!
https://bit.ly/3Zq5ybJ