Month: February 2021

With a variety of stakeholders in tow, a School of Education OCEAN partnership with Rea Elementary and the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is improving teaching and students’ mathematical thinking and reasoning. When a world-class School of Education, local K-12 teachers, principals, students, and district administrators come together and “row in the same direction,” truly astonishing…Continue Reading Rowing in the Same Direction

The School of Education’s OCEAN team is stopping at nothing to address threats to educational opportunities in low-income communities of color during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic required schools, educators, and families to pivot to new modes of learning and revealed pressing issues of access for families across Orange County. In July 2020, the UCI Office…Continue Reading Reimagining Educational Equity and ​Opportunity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Juan Gaytan Doctoral Candidate in Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development University of California, Irvine | School of Education Dissertation Abstract This dissertation offers an in-depth look at the Latinx male teacher pipeline in order to develop recruitment and retention strategies of Latinx men specifically, and diverse educators more broadly, into the teaching profession. This project…Continue Reading The Latinx Male Teacher Pipeline

Carlos Sandoval Doctoral Candidate in Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement University of California, Irvine | School of Education Dissertation Abstract The current dissertation offers an examination into the enactment of a networked improvement community in order to understand how networked improvement methodologies are implemented and how this implementation is and is not equitable and for…Continue Reading Understanding the Practices and Processes of Doing Networked Improvement Science in a Teacher Preparation Network