Classes & Workshop

Project Brainstorm

Project Brainstorm is a UCLA registered student group whose goal is to stimulate interest in science for children and young adults in grades K-12.

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...

Robotics for All Virtual STEM Classes

We offer both 8-week virtual Computer Science and engineering-related courses for grades K-8. This includes classes like Scratch, Python, and TinkerCAD. We believe in the importance of equal and accessible...

Game Lab High School Summer Institute

The UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute introduces high school students to game-making as a form of artistic practice, teaching them the techniques and tools that will help them develop analog...

Science Lab Teaching Club

The Science Lab Teaching Club was formed at UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy in January of 2012. We are a group of undergraduate physics students who volunteer to go...

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,...

Themes in World History K-12 Workshops

This virtual K-12 teacher professional development workshop series will focus on themes in world history curriculum under the California History Social Science (HSS) Framework. The workshop series aims to provide...

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...

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...

AP Readiness Program

The AP Readiness Program uses an academy model; mentor Advanced Placement instructors work with pre-advanced placement and advanced placement teachers to teach them how to help their students with the...

Drug Abuse and Society

Outreach education program designed to provide age-appropriate lectures on specific legal and illegal drugs of abuse to high school students. A typical high school visit is comprised of a one-hour...

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 Institutes

UCLA Pre-College Summer Institutes provide highly-motivated high school students the opportunity to earn college credit while advancing their skill set in one area of study.

The Riordan Scholars Program

A program for 10th-12th grade students attending high school in Los Angeles, the Riordan Scholars Program aims to encourage students, through a specialized curriculum and mentorship, to consider careers in...

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...

Nanoscience Institute for 3-12 Educators

For more than a decade, in collaboration with colleagues at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, CNSI has maintained a network of UCLA scientists and education researchers...

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...

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....

UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle (ORMC)

Top-tier math circle, free and open to students interested in mathematics and eager to learn.

Los Angeles/Irvine Brain Bee

The Brain Bee is a program designed especially to stimulate high school students to learn about neuroscience. Like a Spelling Bee, the Brain Bee allows students to compete with each...

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...

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.

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...