Black LGBT Los Angeles Oral History Panel with Community Leaders
2025-05-29 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Young Research Library, West Electronic Classroom, 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Join UCLA Library Special Collections as participants in the Black Los Angeles LGBT Oral History Project speak about their work establishing organizations that address the needs of Black LGBT communities in Los Angeles.

The Black LGBT Los Angeles Oral History Project was conducted to document Black LGBT history in Los Angeles via oral testimony. Participants Byron Johns, Yolanda Whittington and Phill Wilson will share their experiences establishing community organizations in support of Black LGBT folks who faced unique experiences in Los Angeles during the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Interviewer Byron Johns will discuss his role in the project and possibilities for future projects.

Light refreshments will be served.

Viet Storytelling Festival: Celebrating 50 Years of the Diaspora and Our Oral Traditions
2025-05-31 14:00 - 17:00 | Echo Park Branch Library, 1410 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, California, 90026
Join us for an afternoon of storytelling events, featuring Viet language and culture. This is a free bilingual, intergenerational, community event with bilingual children’s storytimes, arts and crafts, a workshop for caregivers and preschool/kindergarten teachers, an oral history booth, and storytelling by older community members. There will also be a resource and book fair, and free snacks. Participate for a chance to win amazing raffle prizes, such as books about Chú Cuội, puzzles featuring the Viet zodiac, and more! All participants will receive goodie bags (while supplies last), and parents and caregivers who participate in the focus group will also receive gift cards. All ages are welcome to attend!

This event is made possible through the UCLA Center for Community Engagement’s Social Impact Collaborative Exploratory grant awarded to PI Thuy Vo Dang (Information Studies) and Co-PI Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo (Asian Languages and Cultures). It is the culminating event of a yearlong partnership between UCLA, Viet Storytime Club (VSC), the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA).

Spring Cleaning Social
2025-06-04 12:00 - 13:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
OJEDI invites all Ed&IS faculty, staff, and students to celebrate the end of the year with food, music, and books! Bring a book you would like to swap.

Pride Talk: Strengthening Support Networks for LGBTQ+ Youth
2025-06-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join us for a transformative talk dedicated to enhancing support systems for LGBTQ+ youth. This event will bring together campus and community leaders to explore effective strategies and share resources aimed at fostering a nurturing and inclusive environment for young people. Whether you are a professional working with youth or a community member committed to inclusivity, your participation can make a meaningful difference in shaping a more accepting and supportive future for LGBTQ+ youth. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and empower!

Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Jin Wang Ph.D. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Maryanne Wolf Ph.D.
2025-06-06 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
In this talk, we will introduce a new study we are planning to conduct in regard to the longitudinal relationship between the neural basis of semantic processing and word reading skills in monolingual English-speaking children aged from 5 to 7 to 9 years old using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This study will be an extension of Dr. Wang’s dissertation work where she primarily focused on the longitudinal relationship between the neural basis of phonological awareness and word reading skills. This dissertation work provided systematic neural evidence clarifying the mechanism of why phonetic training facilitates word reading. She hopes that this new neural study can address whether semantic knowledge is crucial in the early stage of word reading and if so, what the mechanism could be. Dr. Wang is currently working on a pre-registration for this paper and has not yet looked at the data, she welcomes any suggestions/critics about the idea formation, hypotheses, and data analyses plan. This study is based on an existing Open Dataset on monolingual English-speaking children. In the next years after her Ph.D. students on board, she is interested in collecting pilots and exploring the longitudinal interaction between language skills (e.g., phonology and semantics) and reading skills in multilingual populations. Any collaborations are also welcome.

Jin Wang is an assistant professor in the department of education at UCLA started July 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College in 2022 and did her post doc at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on language development in children from infancy to early elementary years and its relations to reading skills using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu

UCLA Ed&IS Alumni Reception 2025
2025-06-10 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Courtyard South, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
You are cordially invited to the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies Spring Alumni Reception. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with fellow alumni and faculty!

Hosted by Dr. Tina Christie, UCLA Wasserman Dean of Education and Information Studies

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

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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Writing Project Summer Invitational 2025
2025-06-23 09:00 - 2025-07-17 09:00
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

UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning Summer 2025 Webinar Series: The Science of Self-Regulation: Understanding Development and Supporting Growth
2025-06-26 15:30 - 16:30
Join Dr. Jennie Grammer for an engaging session on the science of self-regulation—how we manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors across childhood and adolescence. Drawing on research from neuroscience, education, and developmental psychology, this talk will unpack the building blocks of self-regulation, including executive functions, emotion regulation, and behavior. Dr. Grammer will explore how these skills develop over time, how they’re shaped by context and individual differences, and why they matter for learning, behavior, and well-being. Participants will leave with practical insights into how to support self-regulation through developmentally informed, evidence-based strategies.

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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

EcoRise Summer Teacher Ambassador Program
2025-07-20 00:00 - 2025-07-23 23:59 | UCLA Moore Hall, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095
Ed&IS is co-hosting a Teacher and Admin Summer Ambassador Program. This program brings teachers and administrators from all over the US together each summer. EcoRise Ambassadors are experienced educators who have demonstrated a strong interest in and commitment to eco-justice work at their school sites.

UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning Summer 2025 Webinar Series: Rethinking School Phone Policies: Supporting Student Learning and Health through Developmental Science
2025-08-07 15:00 - 16:00
With a wave of new cell phone bans sweeping across California schools, educators, education leaders, and families are navigating big questions about how digital habits shape students’ development. This session explores the intersection of digital habits and self-regulation, with a focus on how constant connectivity can impact students’ ability to manage attention, emotions, and social interactions. Grounded in the neuroscience of adolescent development, Dr. Kathy Do will share research on how cell phone use affects students’ self-regulation and well-being. Dr. Joe Bishop will then highlight policies and practices that support healthier digital habits in and out of the classroom.

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Exploring Critical Media Literacy and the Climate Crisis with Jeff Share, Ph.D.
2025-08-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, California, 90230, United States
In this session we will explore the role of media in shaping our ideas and policies related to the environment and the climate crisis. From climate disinformation to corporate greenwashing and from Indigenous rights to global youth activism, media are promoting positive and negative messages about the natural world and the environmental challenges. During this interactive workshop we will discuss how different worldviews have influenced our relationships with nature from the past and into the present. We will also address the importance of biophilia (the love of nature) as it relates to the global legal movement for the Rights of Nature and engage in an activity of media production.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) Online Admissions Information Session
2025-08-13 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-09-08 16:00 - 17:30
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UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning Summer 2025 Webinar Series: Language Equity in Multilingual Early Childhood Classroom: Lessons from a Research Practice Partnership
2025-08-21 15:00 - 16:00
California’s early elementary classrooms include significant numbers of children raised in multilingual environments. Multilingual learners face inequitable access to linguistically rich instruction, resulting in persistent disparities in language abilities and overrepresentation in special education. Teachers, administrators, parents, and policy makers are seeking effective ways to reduce achievement gaps and more equitably support learning and development for multilingual learners in monolingual classrooms. This session explores the experiences of young multilingual learners in California’s public school classrooms to identify research-based pedagogy and classroom practices that can effectively create more equitable language learning opportunities for multilingual learners. Strategies focus on: Culturally Responsive Supports, Home Language Supports, and English Language Supports.

Drs. Wishard Guerra and Cohen will share findings from our research practice partnership study: Strategies for Teachers of Young Learners of English (STYLE). They utilized a Practice Based Coaching intervention to support implementation of research-based pedagogical strategies to meet the needs of multilingual learners in early elementary classrooms. Transitional Kindergarten teacher Ms. Kristina Jefferson will highlight the specific practices she uses in her classroom to engage with families from diverse backgrounds, to support home and English language development, and to create a warm and culturally responsive classroom environment.

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Society of American Archivists Conference
2025-08-24 00:00 - 2025-08-27 23:59 | Hilton Anaheim, 777 W Convention Way, Anaheim, California, 92802, United States

Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) Online Admissions Information Session
2025-08-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-11 17:00 - 18:00
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Education M.A./Ph.D. Online Admissions Information Session
2025-08-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-12 09:00 - 10:00

Educational Leadership Program (ELP) Online Admissions Information Session
2025-08-28 17:30 - 19:00

Master’s Degree in Student Affairs Online Admissions Information Session
2025-08-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-12 12:00 - 13:00

Auto-Correct: Fantasies & Failures of AI Ethics in the Driverless Car
2025-09-08 11:00 - 12:30 | UCLA Murphy Hall Room 3312
Join the UCLA Department of Information Studies for a book talk by Dr Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Center for Futures of Intelligence, Cambridge) based on her first monograph.

The “trolley problem” remains a useful exercise in drawing out the differences between utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics in analytic philosophy. However, the thought experiment also determined imagining what AI-infused artefacts should be capable of, suggesting that ethical decision-making becomes a data-driven enterprise rather than a human, social, or individualised practice. Maya Indira Ganesh tracks the language, materiality, and culture of epistemic tools that establish safety and automobility as problems to be solved by the driverless car, examining outputs of AI systems versus what constitutes our social and technological presents and futures.

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Workshop: AI, Time & Futurity
2025-09-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center, 1500 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, California, 90095
Join the UCLA Department of Information Studies for a free workshop on AI, Time & Futurity with Dr. Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme CFI, UK).

Time haunts AI. An origin story in the summer of 1955 that has acquired the status of myth and fact; geopolitical races; the contradictions and entanglements of longtermist and accelerationist ideologies; law and regulation that fail to keep up; promised breakthroughs from the driverless car to superintelligence that fail to arrive, or seem eternally just around the corner. Computational time is also infrastructural: the lag in software updates pushed to the cloud and then to fleets of driverless cars and mobile phones (Mattern, 2017). Temporality works unevenly affording ‘just in time’ deliveries for the busy, but at the cost of bio-social control of delivery workers and on-demand mobility service providers (Sharma, 2014).

​This workshop is interested in exploring the temporalities, ideologies, and materialities of AI at a moment of complex political reconfigurations.

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15th International Conference on Education and Justice
2025-09-11 00:00 - 2025-09-12 23:59 | Moore Hall, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90024
Connecting the Dots: Naming the Moment and Our Intervention

Locally and globally, the attacks on and dismantling of education, democratic institutions and civic participation, and human rights and sovereignty, particularly for historically marginalized populations, are crystalizing for all to see. These attacks are highly coordinated, well-funded, and long entrenched in a range of intersecting ideologies and systems of imperialism and settler colonialism, autocracy, white supremacy, dominionism, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, militarism and carcerality, ableism, and more. Examples include policy “reforms” and public rhetoric that undermine any number of issues ranging from anti-genocide protest and truthful curriculum to DEI initiatives and LGBTQIA+ inclusion; from teacher professionalism and student civil-rights protections to democratic governance and equitable funding of educational institutions and initiatives; from humanizing learning and teaching at the classroom level, to community capacity building at the school and district levels, to a bold vision of education as movement building for justice at the levels of systems and values. What does it mean to advance justice through anti-oppressive education and collective action in this moment?

The 15th International Conference on Education and Justice highlights the role of educational scholars in anti-oppressive movement building, particularly when we produce scholarship collectively and leverage it for public pedagogy.

Sessions will feature projects and works-in-progress that aim to raise public awareness or influence educational policy and practice, as well as strategies to build our capacity for such interventions. Educators, scholars, students, leaders, advocates, and educational organizations and institutions from across the United States and around the world will convene to share collective scholarship for public pedagogy, as well as to support one another in such work through critical self-reflection and constructive criticism.

The 15th Conference returns to California, and will be held jointly with open meetings of CARE-ED and EDJE so that conference attendees can attend and benefit from these meetings, and vice versa.

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Fall Quarter Begins
2025-09-22 00:00 - 23:59

Learning Café: Tools for Translating Research to Action
2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Join the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies for Learning Café: A Community-Engaged Scholarship Series.

Presenter: Joseph Bishop, Ph.D.

Refreshments will be served.
