After leading the Principal Leadership Institute for 16 years, Dr. Nancy Parachini has been named as the inaugural executive director of School Leadership Projects and International Partnerships. Dr. Tonikiaa Orange will take the helm as director of the Principal Leadership Institute.
Design-Based Learning Unwrapped: SXSW EDU Keynote with Doreen Gehry Nelson & Frank Gehry
Build Our Future keynote talk with Frank Gehry & Doreen Gehry Nelson
Discussion: Transforming U.S. Educational Exchange Programs: The Need for Representation and Inclusion
Dr. Rita Suh of the Culture & Equity Project talks to Dr. Jill M. Humphries about the need for representation and inclusion in U.S. Educational Exchange Programs.
Liminal Space in Coaching
“How do you actually begin a coaching conversation?” It’s a question that has been asked in coaching trainings and professional learning groups more recently, or maybe it’s one I have heard a bit differently today.
Styrofoam cities and avatars: how the Gehry siblings would redesign education
After a lifetime of challenging norms, Frank Gehry and Doreen Gehry Nelson share ideas for sparking change in the classroom by using Design-Based Learning.
Center X Researchers Receive AACTE’s 2023 Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education Article Award
Emma Hipolito, director of the UCLA Teacher Education Program (TEP) and Darlene Lee, TEP faculty advisor, have been honored with the 2023 Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education Article Award, for their co-authored examination of “Toward a Healthy Racial Climate: Systemically Centering the Well-being of Teacher Candidates of Color.”
Goals for the Year
Now that it’s well into 2023…how are your new year’s goals coming along? Maybe you’ve forgotten what was important to you on January 1, or you’re thinking those goals were accomplished and completed on January 31 with “Veganuary.”
Honor Students’ Names – My Name Matters
Hello, my name is Yessenia. My name is important to me because it is my identity, the name given to me by my parents, and the name I respond to. It is special to me because of its meaning, and it symbolizes my cultural identity. A person’s name represents who they are and where they come from. It is not just common courtesy to be able to correctly pronounce someone’s name, it is much more than that.
Congratulations to the New National Board Certified Teachers!
Congratulations to all of the amazing new and renewed National Board Certified teachers! The UCLA National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Project is so proud to have supported you on your journey.
When is silence not golden, or the quiet killer?
By Natalie Irons, Associate Director of Instructional Coaching, UCLA Center X I recently reached out to my doctor about some repeated symptoms of fatigue and exhaustion. I teared up as…
Discussion: Movement to End Chancla Culture
Dr. Rita Suh of the Culture & Equity Project talks to Leslie Priscilla, founder of Latinx Parenting, on the movement to end chancla culture.
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We are excited about the publication of Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators edited by our former executive director, Annamarie Francois, along with UCLA Center for Community Schooling director Karen Hunter Quartz.