MAT and Community Events
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Teacher Diversity Program
ongoing It is crucial to support a diverse teacher workforce to educate and enlighten educators about cultural, racial, and gender diversity. Creating a community that is open minded and appreciative of each and everyone’s differences is important to establish a socially inclusive and equitable environment. Moreover, it will help teachers stay informed and aware of the current events regarding social injustices and learn how to be advocates for social justice. The goal of the program is to help everyone in the UCI MAT program to expand their knowledge on diversity, and for everyone to become advocates for diversity as a community. |
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Ethnic Studies Seminar
May 12, 2023 The MAT Ethnic Studies Seminar was developed to support the implementation of Assembly Bill 101, which requires all California school districts to offer an ethnic studies course for all high school students to meet the graduation requirement by 2029-2030 school year. During this seminar students enrolled in teacher credentialing programs at UCI learned from Ethnic Studies practitioners and discussed Ethnic Studies pedagogies and teaching methodologies in order to learn more about the impact and vision for K-12 Ethnic Studies. More information |
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Teaching for Justice Conference
April 28-29, 2023 Teaching for Justice is an intentionally-designed space for K-12 educators who seek to be in conversation and collaboration with one another. We highlight pedagogy, research, practice, community-based initiatives and programs that center AAPI experiences, which guide us in taking better care of each other. We strive to foster and deepen our individual connections, while bridging our respective communities. TfJ aims to nurture meaningful opportunities for participants to build capacity in implementing social justice-oriented AAPI Studies instruction. With the three tenets of deepening content knowledge, supporting classroom implementation and advancing advocacy, the two-day conference will be held virtually for the first day and on campus at UCI on the second day. Collaborative partnerships empower and support all teachers. We welcome everyone to join us in celebrating AAPI stories of joy and solidarity that are part of our shared history. We look forward to learning, sharing and growing together. More information |
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Voices & Perspectives: Black Males on the Current Pulse of the Nation (Part 2)
February 27, 2023 To support ongoing conversations within the UCI School of Education, a panel of Black men representing various professions shared their thoughts regarding the current pulse of our nation on topics involving education, Black History Month, Tyre Nichols and the Black Lives Matter movement, microaggressions, resilience and hope. Watch video |
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Museum of Tolerance
May 15, 2022 Sixty MAT+ Credential candidates, UCI CalTeach candidates and staff traveled to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles to participate in a day-long event, dedicated to exploring new insights and tools to help attendees in creating more inclusive and equitable school communities. Activities included touring museum exhibits, listening to live testimony of Dr. Terrence Roberts, and engaging in interactive workshops. More information |
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An Inspiring Talk for Educators
May 4, 2022 An Inspiring Talk for Educators honored educators for their commitment to K-12 youth and to inspire the community to reimagine teaching and learning to create more equitable and just educational systems. This year’s speaker, Professor Tyrone Howard, engaged the community in a conversation that affirms teachers’ experiences and promotes and centers critical wellness. More information |
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Enhancing Brave Spaces Through Inclusion Activities
October 18, 2021 – May 2, 2022 The UCI School of Education Climate Council presented a yearlong series, "Enhancing Brave Spaces through Inclusion Activities." Staff, faculty and students were invited to six inclusion activities throughout the year on various topics. The activities built community in a quick and lively way; cultivated equity, trust and rapport; strengthened a collective sense of belonging at the center of learning, and more. More information |
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Voices and Perspectives: Honoring the Latino/a Experience
April 30, 2021 To support ongoing conversations within the UCI School of Education, a panel of UCI faculty and K-12 administrators shared their insights regarding culture, education, immigration, stereotypes, family and hope. Panelists contextualized and individualized the "Latino/a Experience" from a lens that only they can provide, with the goal of heightening awareness and agency.
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Voices and Perspectives: Black Women Leading the Discourse on Black Lives
February 19, 2021 To support ongoing conversations within the UCI School of Education, a panel of educational leaders shared insights regarding equity, racial injustice, Black Lives Matter, K-16 education, motherhood, and hope. Panelists contextualized and individualized “Black Lives” from a lens that only they can provide, with the goal of heightening awareness and agency.
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Voices and Perspectives: Honoring the Asian American Experience
January 29, 2021 To support ongoing conversations within the UCI School of Education, a panel of Asian American faculty and staff shared their insights regarding culture, education, immigration, stereotypes, family and hope. Panelists contextualized and individualized the "Asian American Experience" from a lens that only they can provide, with the goal of heightening awareness and agency.
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Voices & Perspectives: Black Males on the Current Pulse of the Nation
December 4, 2020 To support ongoing conversations within the UCI School of Education, a panel of Black men representing various professions shared their thoughts regarding the current pulse of our nation on topics involving education, civil unrest, the Black Lives Matter movement, racism, fatherhood, and community service.
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Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade: A Talk with Teachers
November 18, 2020 On November 18, 2020, the UCI Teacher Academy hosted "A Talk with Teachers," featuring Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Professor of Latina/o Studies and Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. The event featured a Q&A discussion on how to foster humanizing pedagogical practices in the classroom both during and after remote instruction. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Elizabeth van Es and Dr. Nicole Gilbertson, the leadership of the Teacher Academy, and second-year doctoral student Jonathan Montoya. |
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Hope and Healing from the Lens of Survivors
Part I: Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda September 28, 2020 To expand conversations and dialogue around equity, inclusion, and anti-racism, the UCI School of Education is hosting a webinar series that features survivors and professional experts of extremism, oppression, war, genocide, racism, and discrimination. The series will focus on elevating voices of survivors and experts through a lens that only they can provide. In the first part of the series, panelists contextualized our understanding of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. In this edition, attendees heard from Rwandan victims, family members, and professional experts. More information |
Future webinars in the Hope and Healing from the Lens of Survivors series to come in academic year 2020-21.
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Dr. Roberto Gonzales Presents "Lives in Limbo"
August 17, 2020 Dr. Roberto G. Gonzales is Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the Director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. His research examines the effects of legal contexts on the coming-of-age experiences of vulnerable and hard-to-reach immigrant youth populations. Since 2002, he has carried out one of the most comprehensive studies of undocumented immigrants in the United States. His book, Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (University of California Press), is based on an in-depth study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles for 12 years. This longitudinal study began during his doctoral studies in UCI's Sociology Department. To date, Lives in Limbo has won five major book awards. Dr. Gonzales' work has been featured in top journals, including the American Sociological Review, Current Anthropology, and the Harvard Educational Review as well as in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Lives in Limbo has been adopted by several universities as a common read and is being used by K-12 schools in teacher and staff training. To deepen understanding about the lived experiences of undocumented students, UCI's MAT candidates read Lives in Limbo at the start of the program. |
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Sylvia Mendez Webinar for MAT Students
July 15, 2020 Sylvia Mendez was born in Santa Ana, California, in 1936. As a young child, Ms. Mendez was the child at the center of the landmark 1947 case, Mendez vs. Westminster, in which her parents and neighbors fought against segregated education for children of Mexican descent in southern California, a case that banned segregation in California public schools and paved the way for the national ban on segregated schools in Brown vs. Board of Education seven years later. Ms. Mendez spoke to the MAT candidates a couple of years ago and she is excited to come back and share her story. |
Watch: Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Felicitas Mendez (3:01)
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Black Mothers Panel
June 19, 2020 Four distinguished Black mothers share their stories, detailing how violence affected their families and themselves, and how they turned their grief into activism. |
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Black Males on the Current Pulse of the Nation
June 11, 2020
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