Monthly News | November 2023

Two School of Education-led research projects

aim to enhance climate science learning

Led by Professor Rossella Santagata, the National Science Foundation-funded projects partner with students, educators and local communities to create inclusive, equity-centered curriculum for high school students.

Pictured: UCI faculty and community partners involved in one of the NSF grants to develop a high school environmental engineering curriculum include (from left) Symone Gyles, assistant professor of education; Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering; Rosella Santagata, professor of education; Sara Ludovise of the Orange County Department of Education; and Hosun Kang, associate professor of education. Photo by Steve Zylius / UCI

'Bien Educado' distinguished lecture

On Oct. 11, Professor Gustavo Carlo gave a distinguished lecture, titled Bien Educado: Raising Latine Children to Thrive, based on his ongoing research on prosocial behavior in Latine children during National Hispanic Heritage Month. The presentation was followed by a Q&A discussion moderated by Assistant Professor Adriana Villavicencio.

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UCI School of Education's SAGE Scholars internship program

Learn how the Student Achievement Guided by Experience (SAGE) Scholars Program and internship partner ENO Brands are empowering Scholars to develop the professional skills that will help them on their career trajectories. Since 1999, the SAGE Scholars Program has provided undergraduates who have significant financial need with the tools to invest in their future through leadership training, career exploration, graduate school planning, and access to internship and scholarship opportunities.

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Upcoming Events

• Nov. 13-18 – International Education Week at UCI

• Nov. 27 – Registration deadline for UCI Science Project: STEAM PK-5 Books Program

• Dec. 5 – California Reading & Literature Project: Administrator PLC Series

• Dec. 7 – UCI Writing Project Annual Literacy Conference: "Healing Hearts, Growing Minds: Creating Just and Equitable Classrooms through Next Generation Literacy Instruction"

• Dec. 15 – Registration deadline for UCI Science Project: STEAM PK-5 Books Program

• Jan. 8-24 – UCI Science Project: NGSS Certification Program (Tier 2)

• Jan. 26-27 – California Reading and Literature Project: SEL Into Literature with CRLP: Social Emotional Learning Through Literature

• Jan. 29 – Registration deadline for UCI Science Project: STEAM PK-5 Books Program

Please visit the Teacher Academy website to view more upcoming workshops.

• Professor Richard Arum discusses how social science is used to adress education policy, reform (Gardner Institute)

• Boosting K-12 funding, increasing teacher diversity are demonstrated solutions for improving educational performance in low-income children, finds report co-authored by Distinguished Professor Greg Duncan (GoLocal)

• Associate Professor Emily Penner discusses impact of educational categorization (KCBS Radio)

• Interdisciplinary team led by Professor Rossella Santagata awarded three-year, $1.6 million grant focused on creating accessible, equity-centered model for high school environmental engineering education (India Education Diary)

• Professor Mark Warschauer on ChatGPT's ability to help students organize ideas, edit and revise writing (The Hechinger Report)

• Professor Julie Washington points out importance of dyslexia definitional issues as they drive research, funding, assessment (Scientific American)

• Distinguished Professor Greg Duncan: "Policies that reduce intergenerational poverty." In: Brookings

• Distinguished Professor Jacquelynne Eccles: "The Relevance of Situated Expectancy-Value Theory to Understanding Motivation and Emotion in Different Contexts" (chapter). In: Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational Contexts

• Postdoctoral Scholar Sharin Jacob and Professor Mark Warschauer: "Coding as Another Language: An International Comparative Study of Learning Computer Science and Computational Thinking in Kindergarten." In: International Conference of the Learning Sciences

• Doctoral Student Ethan Rubin and Professor Elizabeth van Es: "'My noticing lens disrupts this narrative': Preservice mathematics teachers' awareness of the self as noticer." In: School Science and Mathematics

• Professor Rossella Santagata: "Teacher noticing in mathematics education: a review of recent developments." In: ZDM – Mathematics Education

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