Pasadena, CA — Twelve STEM educators from eight California school districts convened this week at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena for the launch of a three-day STEM Educator Institute. Organized by the University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Education (SOE) in partnership with NASA JPL, the Institute aims to equip teachers with...
UCR language scholar Alice Lee explains why ‘correcting’ Black Language in the classroom is counterproductive to student success. If you’ve ever jammed to a favorite song, kept it real with friends, or were hustlin’ to get all your work done, you’ve used Black Language but probably didn’t acknowledge it as such. Alice Lee, an assistant...
Given the critical teacher shortage in the Coachella Valley, the UCR School of Education worked with leaders at UCR Palm Desert to add a cohort of students eager to earn their M.Ed. along with their CA teaching credentials. Last night, in an emotional ceremony celebrating the success of both the program and its graduates, that...
By JORDAN B. DARLING | jdarling@scng.com PUBLISHED: THE PRESS ENTERPRISE | February 29, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. A tour in Adventureland loads guests onto Jeeps for a peaceful safari led by Mickey Mouse himself. As Mickey begins to narrate, the safari stops when a tree falls, blocking the path. Mickey tells riders it’s about to...
More students at UCR and across the UC system will have access to a popular course offered by the UCR School of Education thanks to an award approved by the UC Online Leadership Team. The course, EDUC134: Abnormal Psychology for Educators, teaches students about psychological diagnoses from both a clinical psychology and special education/school psychology...
The 2024 AERA Annual Meeting will be in Philadelphia from April -14, 2024 Dozens of UCR School of Education faculty, students, and researchers will participate at this year’s annual American Educational Research Association, or AERA meeting. AERA is the largest national interdisciplinary research association devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. This year’s...
The School of Education's Teacher Education Program (TEP) recently hosted a roundtable on the critical shortage of teachers in dual language immersion (DLI) programs, where instruction is provided in English as well as in Spanish. Directors from school districts in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley who are responsible for supporting the district's DLI programs...
