Q&A with LAUSD board member Jackie Goldberg and TEP lecturer Jeff Share describes vision for shaping critical media literacy curriculum that aligns with state standards.
Jeff Share: The Need for Critical Media Literacy
TEP lecturer Jeff Share discusses his co-written book, “The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education.”
Transforming Education: the Time is Now
Re-entering schools in the COVID-era will be a completely new experience in which educators will have to reimagine their classrooms. Educators must provide an environment that is culturally, socially and emotionally responsive in order to support the success of students.
Privilege Pirate – Student Poem
Am I privileged?
Ask the birds that fly away
With deep secrets of my black skin days
Followed by the police just the other day
Stopped me and told me I’m not supposed to be driving by the bay
Jean Ryoo Honored with AERA’s Jan Hawkins Award
Director of research for UCLA’s Computer Science Equity Project, Jean Ryoo, was recognized for her early career contributions to scholarship in humanistic research.
UCLA Department of Education Ranked Third in U.S. News and World Ratings of Graduate Programs
“Our real strength lies in the Department’s talent and diversity, and commitment to furthering educational opportunity as a means to confronting racism, social and economic inequities, and achieving social justice.”
Personal Reflections from a Korean American Woman
I haven’t been able to sleep the last few months and I’ve been “feeling” a certain way that I couldn’t put my finger on. I say “feeling” because it isn’t a mood. And it isn’t one emotion. I’ve been experiencing something that I have never experienced in my life and on March 16th, after eight Asian women were shot in Atlanta, I finally figured out that feeling.
Teachers’ Voices: CRP and EL Strategies Overlap
Culturally responsive pedagogy enhances instruction, socio-emotional learning, and relational trust. It also highlights the extraordinary backgrounds, schemas, experiences, and languages that all students bring into the classroom.
Stipends, jobs for student teachers needed to diversify California’s teaching force
Center X researcher Jarod Kawasaki calls for school boards to provide cost of living stipends and jobs to support and diversify student teachers in their district.
Engaging Students Online, Applying the Doreen Nelson Method of Design-Based Learning, Backwards Thinking™ in a 4th Grade Classroom in the San Gabriel Unified School District
This article describes how a 4th grade class was learning using the Design-Based Learning method.
Report Details Lack of Civic Learning in CA Public Schools
The researchers call on education, community and policy leaders to make democratic education and civic learning a renewed priority for public education in the state.
PLI Alum Felix Quinonez Named 2020 LAUSD Teacher of the Year
Felix Quinonez, PLI Cohort 6, was honored with a Los Angeles Unified Teacher of the Year award.
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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.