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.
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.
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.
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.”
“This recognition underscores the value of our work in advancing educational scholarship and practice that is grounded in an ethic of care and focused on creating educational opportunity for all citizens, locally and globally.”
Kimi Waite published an article in Ms. magazine stating that climate justice belongs in the classroom—including recognizing and teaching the contributions of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants working toward environmental justice.