New Podcast Space for Teachers, Leaders, Families, and Community Partners
The Uncertain Educator podcast, a new series developed at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE), looks at the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact and explores how people have pivoted during these uncertain times. With a focus on understanding mental wellness, the podcast brings together on-the-ground educators and a range of experts to share their findings and experiences since the pandemic began.

Click here to listen to The Uncertain Educator podcast.
Host Dr. Debora Broderick, a long-time educator and teacher-researcher, highlights topics and themes discovered from the Project for Mental Health and Optimal Development at Penn GSE. Over five episodes, she convenes pairings including parents, a teacher and student, and community partners who have found creative ways to cope — and, for some, thrive — throughout the pandemic.
"The pandemic has required educators and practitioners to deeply reconsider the purpose of school in a shifting world. What role can and should our institutions play in our society?

One lesson that comes up again and again in my conversations with guests on the podcast is that our schools and community organizations are central to how we live and thrive, and that these institutions have an important role to play in supporting students' mental health and wellbeing."

Dr. Debora Broderick
The Uncertain Educator host
This podcast is an extension of the work of the Project for Mental Health and Optimal Development at Penn GSE. It is informed by Planning for Uncertainty: An Educator’s Guide to Navigating the COVID-19 Era, which was published in September 2020 by a team of teachers, counselors, school leaders, and GSE faculty. This initiative, including the podcast, is funded by The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation.

ABOUT OUR HOST

Debora Broderick, EdD, is a long-time educator and teacher-researcher whose work focuses on arts-based inquiry into teaching and learning. She is currently a lecturer at Penn GSE and is the instructor and coordinator for a high school dual-enrollment program, Teacher Academy, at Central Montco Technical High School in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

She is on the leadership team for the Planning for Uncertainty initiative that comes out of Penn GSE's Project for Mental Health & Optimal Development.
PODCAST TEAM

PRODUCER & HOST
Dr. Debora Broderick

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Miranda Rain Wenhold
Andy Danilchick

SOUND ENGINEERING
Tracy Barnett

EDITORIAL SUPPORT
Julie Berger
About Penn GSE
Penn GSE is one of the nation’s premier research education schools. No other education school enjoys a university environment as supportive of practical knowledge-building as the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania. The School is notably entrepreneurial, launching innovative degree programs for practicing professionals and unique partnerships with local educators, and the first-ever business plan competition devoted exclusively to educational products and programs. For further information about Penn GSE, please visit www.gse.upenn.edu/ 

About CPRE
The Consortium for Policy Research (CPRE), headquartered at Penn GSE, conducts meaningful research that delves into the relationship between educational policy and the effects it has on classroom practice, student learning, school reform, teacher workforce, and school governance. Find more about CPRE research and projects, visit cpre.org or follow CPRE on social media at: @cpreresearch