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.
UCLA Teacher Education Program in the News
East LA academic decathletes are competing for more than gold
Garfield High School students and UCLA Teacher Education Program alum Brian Cheng are heading to the state academic decathlon. They are competing in memory of their former coach, who passed away last year.
New Grant to Build Pipeline of Middle School Teachers and Leaders
We’ve been awarded a five-year grant to build a pipeline of well-prepared middle school teachers and leaders with the knowledge and skills to serve in high-need schools and further positive outcomes for middle school students. This collaborative partnership project is intentionally interdisciplinary, with a focus on racial and cultural literacy and adolescent literacy.
Project-Based Learning for Centering Student Voice in STEM – New XChange Issue
Our Teacher Education Program faculty, researchers, alumni, and students share their work to document and advance Project-Based Learning projects that help make students’ energy, intelligence, and empathy visible in this new issue of XChange.
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.”
10 Years of IMPACT Teacher Residency Program – XChange Issue
We are thrilled to launch the Spring 2022 issue of XCHANGE, 10 Years of IMPACT: Inspiring Minds through a Professional Alliance of Community Teachers. In this issue you will find engaging stories, artifacts and research that bring to life the work and promise of teacher residencies.