Olivia Peterkin

Jun 19, 2024 | ed.stanford.edu | Olivia Peterkin

It’s been a minute since Virginia “Ginger” Hislop was a student at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). When she started at the GSE in 1936 — then the Stanford University School of Education — her plan was to get her bachelor’s of education, which she did in 1940, and obtain her master’s of education so she could teach, which she started directly after.

May 8, 2024 | ed.stanford.edu | Olivia Peterkin

Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry, says she wrote the first chapter of her novel on the heels of a presentation meeting gone awry because a man in the room claimed credit for her work and no one said anything in her defense. As she stewed, Garmus — who was a copywriter in tech at the time — thought about the many other women who felt invisible or ignored.

Apr 26, 2024 | ed.stanford.edu | Olivia Peterkin

Some educational technologies are those that schools choose to adopt and implement, like interactive whiteboards and tablets in classrooms. Others come in on their own, like ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots — leaving school leaders scrambling to establish policies and best practices that bolster the learning process.

Mar 22, 2024 | ed.stanford.edu | Olivia Peterkin

When Neel Kishnani, ’21, MS ’23, started as a software engineer at one of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies, he found himself in a bit of an identity crisis. He had excelled at his computer science classes at Stanford and was a teaching assistant while pursuing his master’s degree — a position where students came to him for help. Now he was working with colleagues with more experience, and suddenly he was the person in the room without all of the answers.

Jan 29, 2024 | ed.stanford.edu | Olivia Peterkin

Continuity. Character. Community. These are the core concepts that architects had in mind when designing the future look and feel of Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). The project, scheduled to be completed by fall 2025, includes the preservation and restoration of the GSE’s education building (also known as the north building) and the Barnum Center; the construction of a new south building adjacent to Barnum Center; and a new courtyard that will connect the three structures.