The 21st Century California School Leadership Academy (21CSLA) is a statewide collaboration to support principals, districts, and educational leaders in learning from divergent voices, guiding with equity. Through 21CSLA, Parachini and her colleagues across California aim to provide high quality, equity-centered professional learning for educational leaders of schools and districts in California that receive Title II funds.
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We can do more to teach about complexity and coexistence
Julie Flapan, Director of our Computer Science Equity Project, argues that colleges should foster deeper understanding of complex issues, particularly in politically divisive contexts. By promoting critical thinking, empathy, and open dialogue, educators can help students navigate and bridge cultural and political divides, creating a more just and cohesive society.
New History Lesson Plans for the Lost LA Curriculum Project
The Lost LA Curriculum Project added new lesson plans and debuted an updated website with resources for K-12 teachers based on episodes from the Emmy Award-winning Lost LA series co-produced by the USC Libraries and PBS SoCal. The lesson plans were created by teachers working with the UCLA History-Geography Project.
Teaching Music Teachers
Our program preparing music teachers was featured in the UCLA Ed&IS magazine. The Joint Music Education Program is a partnership between the Teacher Education Program at UCLA Center X and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, with the only music education program at a public university in California, where it is possible to earn a teaching credential in a four-year undergraduate degree program.
Check out our book, Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators, edited by our very own former executive director, Annamarie Francois, along with UCLA Center for Community Schooling director Karen Hunter Quartz. Many Center X members also contributed sections of this book.