Classes & Workshop

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 is to create a virtual platform for pairing mentors from higher-ed institutions with K-12 students affected by school closures. We...

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Robotics for All Virtual STEM Classes

We offer both 8-week virtual Computer Science courses for grades K-8 as well as tutoring for school courses at all grade and skill levels (K-12). We believe in the importance of equal and accessible educational opportunities for all students, regardless of their backgrounds, so we offer all of our services...

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ExcEL Leadership Academy

The mission of the ExcEL Leadership Academy is to provide professional learning opportunities for all K-12 teachers to support high quality, equitable education for English Learners. We believe every teacher wants, and needs, the skills needed to ensure English Learners are successful in their classrooms. ExcEL provides personalized, collaborative, purposeful...

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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 and digital games that reflect their own creative voice and vision. No previous game-making skills are required, but students with...

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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 to local schools and present on a physics-related topic in the setting of one 45-minute class. We meet weekly during...

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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 and literacy skills they need to be ready for school, setting them on a path to close the achievement gap...

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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, UCLA music students teach and inspire hundreds of inner-city youths across the partnership sites. While weekly lessons constitute the program’s...

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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 area studies content and pedagogy training to K-12 teachers in California to strengthen classroom instruction of these themes. The workshops...

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Institute for Cultural Sustainability and Educational Equity (ICSEE)

Develop educator’s knowledge base of culturally responsive instructional strategies that support diverse student populations academic success while sustaining their cultural norms, beliefs and values.  Provide educators with the tools to rethink and re-imagine relationships, policies and teaching and learning through a cultural and equity lens.

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Parent Project

Founded in 1997, the UCLA Parent Project was envisioned to partner with schools, communities and families to develop, nurture, and sustain parent engagement and parent leadership in schools. This project brings parents and educators together, stressing that dialogue, collaboration, and mutual learning are pivotal for the enhancement of students’ scholastic...

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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 skills necessary to be successful in college level classes while they are instructing their students. AP teachers learn from each...

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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 session, during which a small group of neuroscience students give interactive presentations and practical demonstrations on how drugs affect the...

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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. Modules 1 will help you gain a better understanding of the important differences between heritage language learners (HLLs) and foreign language learners (FLLs). In the second module, you will learn about...

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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. During these one- to three-week concentrated programs, students experience lectures, hands-on learning, field trips, group projects, and other activities that provide an intensive and engrossing...

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Riordan Scholars Program

Encourage students with guidance and mentorship to consider careers in business and prepare them to be admissible to top universities.

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

PEERS is a manualized, social skills training intervention for youth with social challenges. It has a strong evidence-base for use with adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder, but is also appropriate for preschoolers, adolescents, and young adults with ADHD, anxiety, depression, and other socioemotional problems.

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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 foundation to be successful in an increasingly complex world.

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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 a way to maximize achievement and opportunity for students in urban schools. The PLI at UCLA has designed a rigorous...

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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. If you have a child with behavioral problems or a child who struggles in social situations, our experts are here...

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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 have an opportunity to dialogue with principals, visit classrooms, and explore assessment practices. The participants then design action plans to...

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Nanoscience Institute for 3-12 Educators

This program trains teachers Nanoscience experiments, supports teachers’ efforts to use Nanoscience topics in teaching the NGSS standards, and provides one free kit each workshop for teachers to use with 90-180 students.

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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 to offer educational performances at over 150 schools, libraries, senior centers, and other nontraditional venues throughout Los Angeles County. Free...

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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. The MSP partners with teachers, administrators, school district officials and industry representatives to provide this academic enrichment model.

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Math Circle

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

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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 other in their knowledge of neuroscience.

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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 Education, the LAI workshops offer analyses of major themes related to the Latin American Region. The workshops include comparative and...

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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 the museum.

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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 of planetary research to the local community and to help educate the next generation of UCLA planetary scientists. Instagram: @UCLAiPLEX...

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Intervention Program

Program goals are: 1) to provide educational and therapeutic services which promote development and quality of life for children and families; 2) to assist parents and extended family members as they adapt to and plan for the unique needs of their young child.

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Interaxon

Mission is to create and foster interest, excitement, and curiosity about the brain. We travel to schools in disadvantaged Los Angeles areas to work with students at schools receiving poor funding in the sciences.

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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.

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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.

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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 advancement, or university/college degrees.

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Design for Sharing

Design for Sharing is CAP UCLA’s free K-12 arts-education program. For more than 40 years DFS has been making the performing arts at UCLA an accessible and inspirational part of children’s lives. DFS provides interactive and educational experiences for more than 16,000 students each year by creating opportunities for them...

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Curtis Center for Mathematics and Teaching

Aims to provide high quality mathematics activity for students in local schools. We hope to provide students with a view of mathematics as a creative reasoning and problem solving activity, with intrinsic beauty and meaningful application.

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College Counseling Certificate

This online program is designed to be a preparation for counseling high school students effectively and helping them identify their postsecondary options.

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CityLab at UCLA

Science educational program run by UCLA undergraduate and graduate students to introduce high school students in the Los Angeles area to the rapidly developing world of biotechnology though hands on laboratory experience.

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California Mathematics Project

The California Mathematics Project (CMP) is a K-16 network dedicated to providing students a rich, rigorous, and coherent mathematics curriculum taught by competent and confident mathematics teachers who foster ALL students’ proficiency in mathematics—achieving equity in quality. CMP enhances teachers’ mathematical content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge that is aligned...

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BruinCorps

UCLA BruinCorps was launched in 1997 to provide service to the Los Angeles community and learning opportunities for UCLA students. UCLA BruinCorps is a community service learning program with the goal of providing equal access to educational opportunities to under-resourced communities throughout Los Angeles. BruinCorps members are committed to serving...

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Arts Education Program

Provides eight weeks of arts-based curriculum in under-resourced LAUSD public schools by pairing UCLA Arts majors, Visual and Performing Arts Education minors and Arts Education Teaching Sequence participants with K-12 guiding teachers, primarily working at the UCLA Community School, the Lab School and the UCLA Tie-In Schools

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Astronomy Live!

Organize outreach events for students featuring hands-on demos and activities, solar telescope viewing, workshops, and science talks.

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