Featured Video: Teaching & Learning in a Changing World

This panel discussion addresses opportunities for innovation, broadening access, improving educational equity and promoting parent engagement across K-12 into postsecondary education. School of Education faculty and alumni share their research and experiences with technology in the classroom, availability of high-quality curriculum and the role of community partnership work in driving innovation. Panelists include: Frances Contreras, Dean and Professor; Mark Warschauer, Professor; Adriana Villavicencio, Assistant Professor; Keith Curry (‘11), President/CEO, Compton College; Frank Olmos ('10), Research and Evaluation Coordinator, Los Angeles County Office of Education; Adjunct Professor, CSU Los Angeles; President, Anteaters in Education Alumni Chapter.

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• Hedge fund manager, blackjack strategist and NYT best-selling author, Edward O. Thorp announced as commencement speaker (Read more)
• Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives Sam Bersola reflects on decades-long involvement with Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (Read more)
• How Mary Roosevelt's efforts in the 1990s laid the groundwork for today's K-12 collaborations (Read more)
• Two doctoral students elected to Society for Research in Child Development leadership roles (Read more)
• School of Education, in partnership with Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Division of Continuing Education launch the Teaching Artist Certificate program (Read more)
• School of Education faculty, students and researchers present at this year's AERA conference (Read more)
• YouthCARES in the School of Education wins NNERPP Youth Voice 4 RPPs Award by the National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (Read more)
• School of Education ranked among nation’s Top 20 by U.S. News & World Report (Read more)​
• UC Irvine's Science Project's learning community empowers educators to integrate computer science in the classroom (Read more)
• Stacey Nicholas Endowed Chair of Climate & Environmental Education Asli Sezen-Barrie delivers keynote on transformative climate education at USC conference (Read more)
• TERTULIAS initiative fosters bilingualism and linguistic equity (Read more)
• OCEAN and SAUSD leaders explore two innovative school models in San Diego (Read more)
• Women’s History Month: Honoring Five Incredible Changemakers in Education (Read more)
• School of Education BAP students win awards, coordinator named Principal for the Day (Read more)
• AI and education research expert Nia Nixon earns two honors (Read more)
• Faculty, OCEAN, Teacher Academy join Monroe Elementary for STEAM, Project Lead the Way program launches (Read more)
• Undergraduate student Brenda Ortiz Padilla recognized for her work as a policy intern for the Chuckwalla National Monument campaign with invitation to White House  (Read more)
• ​Senior Assistant Dean Tamara Schaps graduates from STRIVE Leadership Program (Read more)
• Associate Professor Emily Penner, research team find limited economic integration in public schools (Read more)​

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School of Education in the Media

• ​In partnership with the Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative, Associate Professor Andres Bustamante furthers his mission to transform public spaces into learning environments (Telemundo52)
• Assistant Professor Shayan Doroudi discusses generative AI and using these applications with integrity with Duncan Pritchard, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Anteater Insider)
• Professor Young-Suk Kim explains how reading and writing function as a powerful and closely related system, and examines how this system interacts with developmental phases, linguistic grain size, and reading and writing difficulties, including dyslexia (Science of Reading: The Podcast)
• Professor Gustavo Carlo outlines most important steps parents can take to ensure children grow up healthy (WalletHub)
• Working paper coauthored by Doctoral Student Aaron Ainsworth and Associate Professor Emily Penner found that a 10% increase in base pay for special education teachers has more than twice the impact of the same pay raise for general education teachers (National Council on Teacher Quality)
• Researchers including Professor Gustavo Carlo find that family-supported youth are more likely to become supportive, empathetic adults (Medical Xpress)
• Associate Professor Emily Penner part of research team that found most teachers who leave their jobs do not earn more in new positions, suggesting that factors other than salary may cause exit decisions (Reason)
• Associate Professor Emily Penner explains why solidarity in schools is crucial to society (EdSource)
• ​School of Education-hosted ribbon-cutting ceremony will celebrate installation of giant abacus at bus stop, new educational signage inside Northgate Market, part of Associate Professor Andres Bustamante's four-year, $2.57 million NSF grant (New Santa Ana)
• Fraction Ball combines executive functioning skills and math while engaging students in a fun game, says Doctoral Student Lourdes Acevedo-Farag (K-12 Dive)
• Institute of Education Sciences awards PI Young-Suk Kim, team $4 million grant to study effects of Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) on teacher knowledge, instructional practice, and student literacy outcomes in grades K-3 (The Learning Council)
• Distinguished Professor Greg Duncan asserts that eliminating Head Start would have disproportionate effect on low-income families, would increase pre-K program demand and cost families more out of pocket (PolitiFact)​

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