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UCLA Summer Intensive for Bilingual Authorization – Spanish or Mandarin
Are you a credentialed in-service K-12 teacher with expertise in Mandarin or Spanish? Earn your Bilingual Authorization over your summer break in just 8 weeks!
Find out more »Teaching Ethnic Studies: A Community History Approach
This three-day hands-on program for high school teachers will explore ways to approach local history from an Ethnic Studies lens. Collaborate with Ethnic Studies scholars and experienced teachers as you consider the history of marginalized communities in Los Angeles. Workshop Fee: $200
Find out more »Reading, Writing, & the Technology Swirl Across the Disciplines
Three day workshop for 4th-12th grade teachers, across disciplines. Learn how to integrate more writing into your everyday classroom practice and leverage the ways that technology can propel students’ literacy abilities. Workshop Fee: $325
Find out more »Adaptive Schools Foundation Training
Four-day training to learn how to build strong collaborative and caring work cultures at your site. This foundational professional development is specially designed to support site administrators, teachers, district and agency personnel and staff developers who convene and manage work teams, site councils, shared decision making groups and faculty committees.
Find out more »The Long Road to Civil Rights: LGBTQ History in 11th Grade U.S. History
In this two-day workshop for 11th grade U.S. History teachers, we will explore three key periods in LGBTQ history in the U.S. Pedagogical sessions will include an overview of the new California History-Social Science Framework, as well as approaches to creating safe and inclusive classrooms. Workshop Fee: $250
Find out more »National Board Certification Support Summer Institute
Build the foundation for your National Board Certification journey. Learn about the process, experience applicable strategies for your classroom, connect with like-minded educators, and plan for successful teaching and learning. Highly recommended for first time candidates. Fee: $290
Find out more »Places and Time: L.A. History and Geography
Five day workshop with a stipend for 3rd, 4th, 8th and 11th grade teachers focusing on environmental history and environmental justice. We will use the exceptional maps and photos of Southern California housed in the Auto Club Archives.
Find out more »For 7th & 8th Grade Students: Writing in the Middle
Two week workshop for students entering 7th-8th grades. Reading, talking, drafting, writing—and more writing! We’ll focus on writing in a variety of genres—personal narratives, writing based on sources, essays with attitude and poetry/spoken word. Workshop Fee: $400
Find out more »For High School Students: College Ready Writers
Two week workshop for students entering grades 9-12. Learn how to organize, develop and refine your writing, and how to find your academic voice. Workshop Fee: $400
Find out more »For High School Students: Writing the College Application Personal Essay
One week workshop for students entering grade 12. Try your hand at a variety of application topics, explore the role of style, and analyze sample personal statements. One follow up meeting in October. Workshop Fee: $400
Find out more »Teaching with Primary Sources: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S.
Three-day workshop with a stipend for 11th & 12th grade teachers examining civil rights movements in the U.S. and their legacy through readings, presentations by historians, and an exploration of curriculum.
Find out more »Teaching About the Tongva
Two-day workshop for 3rd grade teachers that will explore Los Angeles' indigenous history and indigenous present. Join us and Tongva educators for an interactive experience that will include content speakers, exploration of curriculum and and cooking with native plants. Workshop Fee: $30
Find out more »Spanish-English Biliteracy Transfer (SEBT) Workshop
SEBT Professional Development offers guidance for teachers as they help their students reach grade-level literacy in both Spanish and English through coherent biliteracy transfer instruction of foundational reading skills aligned to the CCSS and CCSS en español.
Find out more »Connecting Ratio and Proportion Ideas from Elementary School to Algebra
Three-day institute exploring student strategies to solve division and fraction problems, lending themselves to topics of ratios & proportions. These sense-making strategies provide a lens to deeper understanding of coherence of proportional reasoning.
Find out more »Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Intermediate Institute
This two-day institute is for experienced K-6 educators who have participated in CGI Beginners Institutes and who wish to dive deeper into the work.
Find out more »Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Beginners Institute, Grades K-5
This three-day institute provides elementary teachers (K-6) with strategies to use students' mathematical thinking to increase their conceptual understanding of mathematics.
Find out more »Component 3 Support – National Board Certification
Deconstruct the requirements for Component 3, plan for video collection and selection, and practice writing about your learning in explicit ways. This is a cohort model and participants work together through the process of successful completion of Component 3. Fee: $200
Find out more »Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI): Supporting Second Language Learners in Advancing their Mathematical Understanding and Language
Two-day institute with a follow up day, designed for TK-5 teachers and administrators who wish to learn how the Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) approach supports mathematical thinking and academic language development for students who are learning a second language.
Find out more »With Different Eyes Conference
The UCLA Writing Project and Center X invite you to the 27th annual With Different Eyes Conference. We focus on access and equity for all students, with English learners center…
Find out more »Component 2 Support – National Board Certification
Deconstruct the requirements for Component 2, explore ways to learn about students, plan for data collection and selection, and consider the best ways to communicate your learning around differentiating for student success. This is a cohort model and participants work together through the process of successful completion of Component 2. Fee: $200
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