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.

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

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Educational Leadership Program

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Office Address
855 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029

I am a current student affairs professional that is student-centered, social justice oriented, and enjoys advocating for those who feel they do not have a voice. #BlackLivesMatter #highereducation #communitycollege #academiccounseling #studentservices #LGBTQIA+ #Equityminded

A.A Liberal Arts, Cerritos Community College, 2009

B.A. Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, 2011

M.S. Counseling, option in Student Development in Higher Education, California State University Long Beach, 2015

Eric Romero (he/him/his/el)

Expected Graduation Year and Degree
2024, Ed.D. in Educational Leadership

Bio
FGLI student turned strategic, student-centered leader in higher education, leveraging over a decade of admissions, enrollment management, and operations experience to serve and advocate for dynamic, engaged communities.

B.A. in English Literature & Language, Marymount University

M.A. in English Literature, Boston College

Jeb Butler (he/him | they/them)

Office Address
2222 N Santiago Blvd (7 am-4 pm)

LinkedIn | Website | jenny.lark@lhsoc.org | 714-998-5151 ext 522

Jenny Lark is an expert facilitator and implementation coach with extensive experience designing, leading, and supporting professional learning. She spent 15 years teaching physical education, health, psychology, and AP psychology. She also served in roles as Director of Teaching and Learning and Dean of Academics. She is currently Assistant Principal, Faculty and Academics at Orange Lutheran High School in Southern California and is completing her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at UCLA. Jenny has experience leading numerous school-wide initiatives such as scope and sequence articulation, benchmark assessments, collaborative inquiry, teacher observations, social emotional learning integration, and individual professional growth portfolios. She has been studying and leading collaborative teacher research since 2005 and her dissertation is focused on facilitating remote teacher collaboration through virtual web-based technologies.

Titles and Positions
Assistant Principal, Faculty and Academics

Teaching and Research Interests
In-Service Teacher Professional Development
Professional Learning Communities
Virtual Professional Learning Communities

M.A. Education - Educational Psychology - California State University, Long Beach

Orange Lutheran High School - Administrator of the Year - 2020

Jennifer Lark (she/her/hers)

LinkedIn | marissaceline@gmail.com | (510) 813-4318

Titles and Positions
UC Berkeley LEAD Center Director for Student Organization Advising

Marissa Valdez Reynoso (she/her/hers)

LinkedIn | Twitter | Website | maryjmadda@gmail.com | (818) 667-0615

Mary Jo Madda (@MJMadda) is the Growth & Engagement Strategy Lead for several diversity + education initiatives at Google, and a doctoral student at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. Previously, she was a Director at EdSurge.

At the start of her career, she taught middle school math/science with Teach for America's Houston corps (specifically KIPP Houston) and later with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at St. Cyril of Jerusalem School, where she also served as an administrator, curriculum coordinator, and decathlon coach. Following her years teaching, she was a member of the ScratchED team at the MIT Media Lab, was an instructional coach with MATCH Charter Schools, and served as one of four founding Education Entrepreneurship Fellows at the Harvard University Innovation Lab while piloting an educational media start-up. She was also a fellow in the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute.

Mary Jo has an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. from Northwestern University. She was featured on the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for 2016 for her work at EdSurge, and has spoken at venues including Stanford, the University of Virginia, and TEDxChicago (video here).

In her spare time, Mary Jo is an avid visual artist, marathon runner, and plays a Bill Nye-esque character for her web series, codenamed Dr. MADD.

Titles and Positions
Growth & Engagement Strategy Lead (Education + Diversity), Google

Teaching and Research Interests
Education tech, computer science education, diversity & inclusion, project-based learning, future of work

Bachelor's of Arts, Northwestern University

Master's of Education, Harvard University

Honorable Mention in “Corporate Social Responsibility” and “Education,” World-Changing Ideas 2019-2020, Fast Company

Listee, Forbes’s 2016 “30 Under 30” list in Education, Forbes 

Education Entrepreneurship Fellow and Yearlong Harvard Innovation Lab Resident, 2013, Harvard University 

Finalist, 2013 Stanford BASES pitch competition, Stanford University

Finalist, 2012 TFA Social Innovation Competition, Teach for America

Fellow, 2012 Harvard University Graduate Leadership Institute 

Education Innovation Case Competition Finalist, 2012, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business

Departmental Honors, 2009, Northwestern Art History Department

Humanities Award, 2009, Northwestern Undergraduate Research Symposium

Coluccio Salutati Award, 2007, Syracuse University Abroad

Recipient of Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, 2005, Northwestern University

"An Industry-Academic Partnership That Prepares Black and LatinX Undergraduate Juniors for High-Tech Careers," Google Research, 2019

"The Important Role Social Capital Plays in Navigating the Computing Education Ecosystem for Black Girls," ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021 (forthcoming)

Research Center
Co-President, Center for Literacy's Advisory Council at University of Illinois, Chicago

Mary Jo Madda (she/her/hers)

Office Address
330 Charles E Young Drive North

rebecca.heneise@gmail.com | (626) 675-9727

Titles and Positions
Dual Language Demonstration Teacher

Rebecca Heneise (she/her/hers)

LinkedIn | Twitter | Website | scotthmoss@gmail.com | (858) 361-8212

Scott has worked in K-12 education for 30 years and in higher education for 20 years. He has taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Scott is a Google Certified Innovator. Scott currently works as an Instructional Technology Outreach Consultant at the Los Angeles County Office of Education.  Scott also works as Associate Faculty at National University in the Instructional and Educational Technology program.  He's earned the Time Warner National Teacher and the Classroom of the Future Foundation’s Innovative Educator Awards. He received his M.A. in Educational Technology from SDSU.

Titles and Positions
Instructional Technology Outreach Coordinator, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Associate Faculty, National University

Teaching and Research Interests
Media Literacy, Computer Science Equity, Educational Technology, Educational Psychology