Our Community, Our Home
The UCR School of Education is a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and partners who live and work right next door to you in the Inland Empire, Coachella Valley and across Southern California. This is our home and we want to be a resource to help make our community better – to help make your life better.
Below are some of the programs designed to have a real impact on our region. Whether you're a teacher, student, parent, administrator or just a concerned citizen, we encourage you to use these resources to help you achieve your goals.
We like to say "We're Here for You" and we mean it. Please contact us anytime about any of these programs. Or invite us to your next meeting and allow us to introduce our resources to you.
Contact us at soecomm@ucr.edu Let's work together to make the world a better place!
Middle School Initiatives
Local middle school students are eligible to attend the SOE Summer STEAM Academy, a FREE two week, academic experience providing quality STEM programming for middle school students. Learn more about our STEAM Academy.
Our program also offers middle school campus tours and middle school book drives. We also host an annual Essay Contest with real cash prizes for our first, second and third place prize winners. All three winners (and their families) from each grade are also invited to have lunch on campus with the dean of the UCR School of Education.
SEARCH Center
Local families can utilize the SEARCH Family Autism Resource Center. SEARCH is the first UC family autism resource center focused exclusively on family needs, particularly on educational access. Located on the UCR campus, it's totally FREE to support families who have children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as well as to individuals with ASD themselves.
TEP Palm Desert
Do you want to teach in the Coachella Valley? You know we offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs on our UC Riverside campus, but did you know we also offer our Teacher Education Program at our Palm Desert campus? Students who want to live in the Coachella Valley can now get their teaching credentials and student teach closer to home.
AP Readiness
Local students and teachers can participate in AP Readiness, a program aimed to improve the teaching abilities of AP instructors while simultaneously giving students the skills they will need to be successful in college level classes. This unique partnership with the SOE, UCLA and the Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) allows for students and teachers to learn together.
Project Moving Forward
English learners can close the opportunity gap by accelerating their language and literacy skills through an engaging and rigorous, research-based system of language, literacy, vocabulary and thinking skills starting in kindergarten. Project Moving Forward enables students to open the doors to learning.
ITOC
Teachers can join the Institute for Teachers of Colors Committed to Racial Justice as a professional development space to support well-being, strengthen racial literacy, and cultivate the racial justice leadership capacities of teachers of Color who work in K-12 public schools that serve students of Color.
STEM Educator Institute
Science-Math teachers can participate in the STEM Educator Institute, a professional development workshop for local K-12 STEM educators. Working in partnership with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, teachers learn instructional strategies using real-world problem solving applications to enhance in-person instruction and improve STEM student outcomes.
