I always wanted to be part of a supportive and a diverse community and TEP is just that. My peers and I share a passion for transforming urban education and it is very encouraging.”
Ariana Reyes
TEP Novice Year at University High School, 2018-2019
The LAUSD-UCLA Residency builds on our extensive collaboration and success on our residency programs over a 10 year time span. This work is centered on social justice with our partner, LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District). We work with our most marginalized communities and work toward educational equity and justice in Los Angeles. Most of our alumni start their careers in LAUSD and numerous have been named “Rookies of the Year.” However, whether recognized or not, the work that happens everyday with the students and families is what matters most as we strive to recognize and know the hidden narratives that can help our secondary math and science pre-service teachers become better social justice STEM Educators.
UCLA STEM+C3 is an innovative teacher residency program that integrates both a secondary single subject credential in math or science and a supplementary authorization in computer science. Our approach to computer science is grounded in social justice and equity as we strive to disrupt dominant notions of neutrality in both STEM and CS fields. Instead, we engage in critical analysis of our world through a humanizing lens within the CS and STEM fields.
UCLA STEM+C3 builds on the success of its previous residency model, IMPACT (Inspiring Minds for a Professional Alliance of Community Teachers), as well as its nationally renowned pioneering success with equity focused computer and data science. A residency teacher preparation model has pre-service teachers start teaching from the first day of class, starting in August, with the goal of having a very deep experience with students and working in schools.
UCLA STEM+C3 is a federally funded residency grant that adheres to three goals:
These goals are grounded in a foundation of critical analysis of computer science and technology in our society with the focus on having our participants, including the K-12 students we work with, be critical consumers as well as creators and innovators of technology toward the public good.