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

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...

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...

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...

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 Television prepares 10-12 undergraduate and graduate theater students to apply their university training in a K-12 classroom setting. The students...

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 with theoretical and practical solutions so all students, regardless of their background, can reach their full academic potential. We believe...

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...

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 important differences between heritage language learners (HLLs) and foreign language learners (FLLs). In the second module, you will learn about...

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 of history at all levels. Through publications, professional development, and community engagement, NCHS links UCLA to teachers and students in...

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 to create exciting nanoscience curricula that help educators better teach fundamental science concepts. Our content is designed to be compatible...

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...

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 the Los Angeles basin. Our goal is to partner with these entities to provide rich and transformative Mathematical experiences 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. The MSP partners with teachers, administrators, school district officials and industry representatives to provide this academic enrichment model.

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...

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...

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 students at schools receiving poor funding in the sciences.

Exploring Computer Science

Exploring Computer Science is a year-long, research-based, high school intro-level computer science curriculum and teacher professional development program that focuses on broadening participation in computing. We support teachers and districts through implementation of the course regardless of school resources. ECS provides professional development for teachers only to deliver the curriculum...

English Tutors

English tutors available for those students who require reinforcement in a particular English subject. To request a list of English Tutors, please send an email to Stephanie Bundy at graduate@english.ucla.edu.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

Astronomy Live!

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