PreK - K

CovEd: Continuing K-12 education during COVID-19

CovED is a community of undergraduates from some of the top colleges/universities across the U.S. who are interested in supporting K-12 students in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our goal...

ExcEL Leadership Academy

ExcEL offers job-embedded, learn-by-doing program to help PK-12 teachers become more effective educators of multilingual learners in all academic areas. We are now offering two “micro-credential-based pathways” for teacher development:...

Jumpstart

Jumpstart is a national early education organization that recruits and trains college students to work with preschool children in low-income neighborhoods. Through a proven curriculum, these children develop the language...

Music Partnership Program

For over two decades, the Music Partnership Program has allowed passionate students to provide music training and mentoring to talented at-risk youth in Los Angeles’ most underserved communities. Each year,...

ArtsBridge

ArtsBridge is a University of California program created to put the arts to work within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Each year, the UCLA School of Theater Film and...

The Culture and Equity Project

We offer professional development to expand educators’ knowledge of how to empower their students and use students’ cultural and linguistic capital as an asset in the classroom. We provide educators...

Coaching Partnerships

Center X Coaching Partnerships supports schools in becoming self-directed, resourceful, and collaborative communities committed to social justice. We support schools and districts in growing their leadership capacity through on-site coaching and our...

Parent Project

Founded in 1997, the UCLA Parent Empowerment Project, housed in Center X in the Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, has provided research-based professional learning experiences...

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Project provides support for PreK-12 educators engaging in the National Board Certification process requirements.

Weather Tour

If you are a teacher, K-12, we offer tours of our Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Department. Our AOS professor and director of meteorology, Dr. Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, will present...

UCLA Lab School

UCLA Lab School is a laboratory elementary school serving 450 students ages 4 to 12 (PreK-6) in a diverse community. Our school is located on the campus of UCLA, one...

Teaching Heritage Languages: An Online Workshop for Educators

Three self-paced, online modules that introduce teachers of world and heritage languages to basic concepts of heritage language pedagogy. Module 1 will help you gain a better understanding of the...

Summer Camp at UCLA Lab School

Taught by UCLA Lab School faculty, our classes are designed to actively involve children in the learning process. They provide a boost in science, math, reading, writing, social studies and...

UCLA Recreation

UCLA Recreation Youth Programs offers a wide variety of summer camps for grades K–12. Located at UCLA, the camps emphasize each child’s needs and personal development within a group setting....

Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relationship Skills (PEERS)

The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is world-renowned for providing evidence-based social skills programs to preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults who are interested in developing...

Professional Development at UCLA Lab School

Our professional development programs for educators offer a dynamic learning experience in an inspiring, collaborative environment. We provide support for helping students become active, engaged learners who have the academic...

Principal Leadership

The purpose of the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) is to recruit, train, and support a diverse group of individuals committed to the principles of academic excellence, equity, and integrity as...

UCLA Planetarium

The UCLA Planetarium offers planetarium shows, telescope shows and other astronomical activies free of charge to school and educational groups.

Parenting & Children’s Friendship Program

Since 1982, the UCLA Parenting & Children’s Friendship Program has helped thousands of families by teaching parents how to increase cooperation and giving children the skills to form meaningful friendships....

Parent Project

This project brings parents of diverse ethnic backgrounds together to share their expertise and to experience interactive California Curriculum Framework presentations by the UCLA Center X Subject Matter Projects. Parents...

Near Eastern Studies K-12 Outreach

The Center’s outreach activities in the area of K-12 education strive to create dynamic and diverse professional development opportunities for Los Angeles-based school teachers. Curriculum and resource development and dissemination...

National Center for History in the Schools UCLA

Since 1988 the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) has nurtured ties between the historical profession and classroom teachers in an effort to improve and enliven the teaching...

Gluck Fellows Music Outreach Program

Since 1996, the UCLA Gluck Fellows Music Outreach Program has been the beneficiary of a generous grant from the Max H. Gluck Foundation, which enables our finest UCLA music students...

Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden Tours

Our two hour field trips take place on Wednesdays & Fridays at 10 am. Self-guided and guided tours for K-12 can be booked for Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays between 9...

UCLA Mathematics Project

The UCLA Mathematics Project (UCLAMP) at Center X is part of a statewide program that strives to make a positive impact on TK-12 educators, students, communities and school districts in...

Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement

Assists students at middle and senior high schools (and some elementary schools) so they excel in math and science and become competitively eligible for the most rigorous colleges and universities....

Latin American Institute (LAI)

Outreach at the LAI offer academic enrichment and professional development opportunities to local K-12 educators. Funded through a Title VI Federal Area Studies grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of...

K.A.M.P. (KIDS ART MUSEUM PROJECT)

K.A.M.P. is a unique family fundraiser that provides kids of all ages the chance to be creative with Los Angeles-based artists. Each year, local artists host hands-on art workshops throughout...

Institute for Planets and Exoplanets (iPLEX)

Learn about planetary science and our place int the universe through hands-on demonstrations, workshops, lab tours, and talks by planetary scientists. The program is designed to bring the exciting world...

Intervention Program

The UCLA Intervention Program believes in and respects the uniqueness and potential of each child. Our goals are: To provide educational and therapeutic services which promote the development and quality...

Interaxon

To create and foster interest, excitement, and curiosity about the brain. We travel to elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools in disadvantaged areas of Los Angeles to work with...

Infant Development Program

The Infant Development Program (IDP) has two primary functions: 1) to offer quality group care for infants and toddlers of the students, staff, and faculty of UCLA, and 2) to...

I’m Going to College

The UCLA Athletic Department invites you and your school to participate in our I’m Going to College program, where your group will have the opportunity to attend a UCLA Football,...

The UCLA History-Geography Project

The UCLA History-Geography Project at Center X is one of the sites of the California History Social Science Project. We collaborate with educational researchers, historians and practitioners to design and...

Hammer Museum K-12 Tours

Tours of exhibitions at the Armand Hammer Museum offer students the opportunity to question and reflect on art, ideas, and the world through close looking, critical thinking, and dialogue in...

Hammer Museum Teacher Resources

Resources for K-12 teachers include professional development workshops and downloadable guides for engaging with art before, during, or after your visit to the museum.

Hammer Kids

Activities such as artist-led drop-in workshops, writing workshops, family-friendly movie screenings, and family experiences in the galleries offer various ways for kids and their families to experience the museum.

Geffen Playhouse

Our education and community engagement programs are uniquely designed so that students of all ages, from diverse communities of Los Angeles, may build a life-long relationship with theater arts through...

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden Tours

Tours of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden offer students the opportunity to question and reflect on art, ideas, and the world through close looking, critical thinking, and dialogue in...

Fowler Museum’s K-12 Guided Visits

We offer guided visits for the Fowler’s ongoing exhibition, Intersections: World Art, Local Lives. These engagements, which highlight different systems of knowledge defined by communities around the globe, past and...

Extension’s Education Department

Extension’s Education Department provides staff development, in-service, and professional outreach to practitioners at all levels of education. You can earn university professional development credit applicable to state licensing/credentialing requirements, salary...