UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

AERA Reception in Los Angeles
2026-04-09 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pez Cantina, 401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90071
Join us for our 2026 UCLA Ed&IS AERA Reception in Los Angeles! Don’t miss the perfect opportunity to connect and network with fellow UCLA Alumni, Faculty, Students, and Staff.

Hosted by UCLA Dean Christina Christie and Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Chair, UCLA Department of Education

For more information, please contact Amy Lassere at alassere@support.ucla.edu or 310.206.0375.

Please note, our reception is being hosted for AERA Conference attendees, Ed&IS Alumni, and Ed&IS Faculty & Staff. All guests must be 21 yrs and over.

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View the UCLA Ed&IS at AERA schedule here.

Integrating AI: The Future of Math Education (Grades 4-12)
2025-07-08 08:00 - 2025-07-09 08:00 | Da Vinci Schools, 201 N Douglas St., El Segundo, California, 90245, United States
July 8 & 9, 2025

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Da Vinci Schools201 N Douglas St, El Segundo, CA 90245

Participants will discover how AI can personalize learning, enhance problem-solving, and foster student engagement. Through hands-on activities and discussions, teachers will learn to use AI-driven platforms, adapt lesson plans for modern technologies, and prepare students for a data-driven future.

Fee: $395

Writing Project Summer Invitational 2025
2025-06-23 09:00 - 2025-07-17 09:00 | California
Become a member of our Writing Project Community!

JUNE 23 – JULY 17, 2025Monday – Thursday, 9AM – 3:30PM at UCLATwo Pre-Institute meetings, dates TBA

Refine, elevate, and celebrate how you teach writing. Join other educators in the greater Los Angeles area who put students center stage. The UCLA Writing Project invites you to apply for our Summer Invitational Institute where you’ll be immersed in the teaching of writing. You will demonstrate your own prized practices, learn from a wonderful group of colleagues, and develop your own writing craft. Issues of social justice will be both the backdrop and foreground of our endeavors. We’ll point to the intersection of race and language. We’ll cultivate a space for educational dialogue centered on anti-racism and anti-racist teaching of writing. We’ll take advantage of curated resources, spend the summer with kindred spirits who choose joy over cynicism. English, social studies, mathematics, world language teachers, and all teachers of multi-lingual learners—this Project is for all of us!

What We’ll Do During the Invitational

Experience workshops centered on what really works in our teaching of writing.

Write—in a variety of genres—and engage in a small writing group for attention, appreciation and suggestions for the next draft.

Participate in a small-group Professional Literature Circle.

Curate a collection of teaching strategies to reach ALL of our students.

Explore what affirming our students’ gender identities means.

Engage in critical conversations about combating anti-black racism in the classroom and in the teaching of writing.

We’ll make lifelong professional connections.

Learn from colleagues who teach the full span of grade levels.

UCLA Writing Project Fellowship

Ed&IS Commencement
2025-06-14 12:30 - 18:30 | Wilson Plaza, 221 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
12:30 PM (Undergraduate) & 4:30 PM (Graduate)

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Spring Quarter Instruction Ends
2025-06-13 00:00 - 23:59 | California

Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Deborah Southern Ph.D. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Ananda Marin Ph.D.
2025-05-09 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
In this session, Dr. Southern will workshop a critical examination of whiteness (CEW) methodological framework which can be used to identify empirical evidence of whiteness via qualitative research. Combining critical concepts of whiteness with qualitative methods, the CEW methodological framework informs critical research design and sensitizes researchers to identify and examine whiteness throughout the data collection and data analysis process, even when participants are unaware of whiteness or its manifestations within their organization. Dr. Southern welcomes feedback, questions, and reflections on the clarity and use of the methodological framework.

Dr. Deborah E. Southern (she/her) is a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Education and Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. As a higher education scholar and qualitative researcher, Dr. Southern examines organizations and change, and how organizational transformation is possibly facilitated or restrained by mechanisms, culture, and leaders. One important contribution of Dr. Southern’s research examines how power like whiteness in institutions via areas like organizational structures, practices, and leaders’ comfort works to obstruct transformative change.

Refreshments will be served. Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu

Design-Based Learning Info Session
2025-04-29 16:30 - 17:30 | California
Free online information session to learn about the Design-Based Learning methodology. Teachers, administrators, and specialists are welcome! Hear from David Cameron, a high school science teacher, who uses DBL in his classroom. Learn about how Design-Based Learning supports student engagement, MTSS, expanded learning opportunities, English language learners across the curriculum, and all grade-levels.

AERA Reception 2025
2025-04-25 17:30 - 19:30 | West Saloon and Kitchen, 501 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States
Don’t miss the perfect opportunity to connect and network with fellow UCLA Alumni, Faculty, Students, and Staff

Hosted by Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Ph.D., Chair, UCLA Department of Education

Structuring College Access: The Market Segment Model and College Board Geomarkets
2025-04-21 16:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Murphy Hall Room 3312
The Structure of College Choice (Zemsky & Oedel, 1983) created “Geomarkets” and the “Market Segment Model.” Geomarkets carve states and metropolitan areas into smaller geographic units, meant to define local recruiting markets. The Market Segment Model predicts how student demand for a particular college varies by Geomarket, based on the socioeconomic characteristics of households. Geomarkets became an input for two College Board products that help colleges recruit students. First, the Enrollment Planning Service (EPS) software recommends specific Geo-markets and high schools from which colleges should recruit. Second, the Student Search Service sells the contact information of prospective students – referred to as “student lists” – and colleges can filter by Geomarket to determine which prospect profiles they purchase. We draw from scholarship on quantification, particularly the discussions of correlation and homophily by Chun (2021), to conceptualize how recruiting products incorporate Geomarkets.

We address two research questions: What is the socioeconomic and racial variation between Geomarkets and how does this variation change over time? How does the socioeconomic and racial composition of included versus excluded prospects vary when student list purchases filter on particular Geomarkets? We answer RQ1 by analyzing Census data from 1980, 2000, and 2020. We answer RQ2 using data on student lists purchased by public universities, which we collected by issuing public records requests. We utilize a quantitative case study design. Metropolitan areas are cases. Analyses consist of descriptive statistics and interactive maps.

Info Session – National Board Certification Support
2025-04-19 10:00 - 11:30 | California
A free information session for educators interested in pursuing National Board Certification in 2025-2026. Find out if National Board Certification is right for you and if UCLA can help to support you on your journey, with our online support cohorts.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Policy and Practice
2024-08-05 01:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

August 5, 1-2pm PTPolicy and Practice: Taylor Dudley, JDDevelop an understanding of policy making and laws relevant to the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Housing
2024-07-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

July 29, 1-2pm PT

Housing: Brenda A. Tully, PhDExplore issues concerning housing for families and youth involved with the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 5, 1-2pm PTPolicy and Practice: Taylor Dudley, JDDevelop an understanding of policy making and laws relevant to the child welfare system.

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

Neurodiversity in the Classroom
2024-04-25 03:00 - 05:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bios:

Dr. Barry M. Prizant

Dr. Prizant is a clinical scholar, consultant, researcher and program consultant to children and older persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and related neurodevelopmental conditions, and their families. He is the author of Uniquely Human and co-hosts Uniquely Human: The Podcast, sharing inspiring stories and practical advice from thousands of children and older people on the autism spectrum and their families.

Dr. Connie Kasari

Dr. Kasari is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, and a leading international expert in developing interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder and their families.
