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UCLA Teacher Education Program (TEP) in the News
Kimi Waite, TEP Alum, Recognized for Her Work in Environmental Education
Kimi Waite was recognized as an “EE 30 Under 30” by the North American Association for Environmental Education and the U.S. Forest Service for being an impactful leader who is using the power of education for a sustainable future.
A TEP Alum Discusses the Impact of Immigration Policies on LA classrooms
Angélica Reyes, a TEP Alum, wrote an Op-Ed published in the LA Times: “Op-Ed: Ending DACA would violently disrupt many public classrooms.” Read the Op-Ed
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Teaching kids how to distinguish fake news from real news
UCLA Teacher Education Program Professor Jeff Share advises K-12 teachers on how to educate students in critical media literacy. He teaches critical media literacy courses at UCLA, where he trains current and future K-12 teachers in ways to show students how to deconstruct media, create their own alternative messages and separate fake news from facts.
UCLA, LAUSD sign agreement for Mann UCLA Community School
The public Mann UCLA Community School in South Los Angeles is envisioned as a cornerstone for a rigorous, personalized college-prep education. UCLA and LAUSD are collaborating to design the school, which aims to expand the current Horace Mann Middle School and reverse years of declining enrollment there.
TEP & PLI Grad Anthony Yom Wins the Escalante-Gradillas Prize for Best in Education
“I am very honored to get the recognition, and I’m happy that my school gets an award, too,” Yom said. “I genuinely think that it is my students who have made me what I am. It is them who make me shine.”
Over the last four years, all of Yom’s calculus students at Lincoln High School have passed the AP exam, nearly all of them earning maximum credit on the test.