Director
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Nicole Mittenfelner Carl is the Director of the Urban Teaching Residency master’s program. Previously, Dr. Carl was the Special Projects Lead for the Collaboratory for Teacher Education at Penn GSE. In that role, she led the Collaboratory’s two priority initiatives focusing on (1) mentoring novice teachers and (2) researching and addressing issues of equity in teacher education. Dr. Carl is an experienced teacher educator and has been formally mentoring novice teachers in Philadelphia since 2008. Dr. Carl also developed and facilitated the mentoring curriculum for mentors of novice teachers in Penn GSE’s Independent School Teaching Residency master’s program.
Dr. Carl received her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Prior to studying at Penn GSE, Dr. Carl taught middle school English in the School District of Philadelphia for five years and was the lead teacher for the middle school. In 2008, Drexel University recognized her as one of three recipients of the Drexel University Make a Difference Award for Outstanding Mentoring and Teaching. While at Penn GSE, Dr. Carl received multiple fellowships, including the Korn Fellowship for impact assessment to guide the research initiatives of the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives.
Dr. Carl teaches courses related to qualitative research methods, practitioner research, mentoring strategies, family engagement, and sociocultural factors in education.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM MST