Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies is home to two departments. Each is a leader in their field, helping to pioneer what's next in the Education and Information worlds.

UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

An ecosystem of K-12 teaching schools where UCLA partners to develop, study, share, and advance innovative best practices.

The work at UCLA Ed&IS is guided by the principles of individual responsibility and social justice, an ethic of caring, and commitment to the communities we serve. Learn more about our mission and values, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our faculty and students, our history and more.

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are defining features of UCLA Ed&IS and we embrace them as a source of strength.

Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

Learn more about the undergraduate and graduate academic programs we offer, when program information sessions are being offered and how to apply.

Center X

Department of Education

Administration

Diversity

Equity

Leadership

Literacy

Multicultural Education

Professional Development

Teaching

Teacher education

Multicultural education

Ecosystems and professional learning

Transformative school-university partnerships

Annamarie Francois

Teacher Education Program

Principal Leadership Institute

Transformative Coaching and Leadership

Faculty, UCLA Transformative Coaching & Leadership Program

Ed.D., Educational Leadership, University of California, Los Angeles

M.A., Administration, Supervision and Higher Education, California State University, Northridge

B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles

Principal Investigator, UCLA STEM+C3 Teacher Residency Program (ED)

Principal Investigator, IMPACT Urban Teacher Residency Program: Inspiring Minds through a Professional Alliance of Community Teachers (ED)

Principal Investigator, California Subject Matter Projects at UCLA (UCOP)

Co-Principal Investigator, 21st Century School Leadership Academy Center (CDE)

Co-Principal Investigator, California Teacher Education Research and Innovation Network (UCOP)

Co-Principal Investigator, Next Generation STEM Teachers for Urban Schools:  Recruiting, Preparing, and Mentoring UCLA Undergraduates for Innovative STEM Teaching (NSF)

Francois, A., and Hunter-Quartz, K. (September, 2021).  Preparing and sustaining social justice educators for urban schools. Cambridge:  Harvard Education Press

Francois, A., and Kawasaki, J. (in press, 2021).  IMPACT: 10 Years of lessons learned from an urban teacher residency program.  https://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/xchange/

Francois, A. and Kawasaki, J. (September, 2021). Learning to become a community teacher. In Francois, A. & K.H. Quartz (Eds.), Preparing and sustaining social justice educators (Chapter 2). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Nava, I., Isken, J. & Francois, A. (2020). Open the door to diversity: Teacher residencies in urban schools boost retention and achievement. The Learning Professional. Vol. 41 No.6.

Kawasaki, J., Clark, H.F., & Francois, A. (2020). Supporting novice teachers’ learning to enact a social justice framework of science teaching. In M. Gresalfi & I. Horn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity of the learning sciences: The international conference of the learning sciences (ICLS) 2020. Nashville: ISLS

Orange, T., Isken, J. Green, A., Parachini, N., Francois, A. (2019). Coaching for equity: Disrupt and transform practices that reveal implicit and explicit biases. The Learning Professional. https://learningforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/coaching-for-equity.pdf

Kawasaki, J., Quartz, K.H., & Francois, A. (2019). Examining mentors’ ideas about being a social justice educator.  Mid-western Educational Researcher, Special Issue on Mentoring.

Kawasaki, J., Anderson-Levitt, K.A., Nenadal, L., Tanio, N., Pham, J., Diera, C., and Francois, A. (2018). From theory to practice:  How pre-service teachers learn to become social justice educators. In J. Kay & R. Luckin (Eds.), Proceedings of the Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age:  Making the learning sciences count.  The International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2018 (Vo. 2, pp 713-720). London: ISLS.

Hunter-Quartz, K & Francois, A.  (2014).  Learning to teach in residence.  Huffington Post Education Blog.