Practical Measures, Routines, and Representations to Support Instructional Improvement

Dr. June AhnAssociate Professor Founder & Director | Orange County Educational Advancement Network (OCEAN)https://ocean.education.uci.edu/  Supporting students to develop a deeper understanding of mathematics and positive academic identities requires complex shifts in classroom pedagogy. For the past 6 years, I’ve been exploring how to systematically support middle school mathematics teachers in their journey of instructional improvement, with…Continue Reading Practical Measures, Routines, and Representations to Support Instructional Improvement

New William T. Grant Foundation: Reducing Inequalities in Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development

  Reducing Inequalities in Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development William T. Grant Foundation | $600,000 | 2022-2025 PI: Dr. Rossella SantagataCo-PI: Dr. Adriana Villavicencio Project team: Patricia Fuentes Acevedo, Christina Kimmerling, and Jesse Sandford (UCI); Dr. Jody Guarino (UCI & OCDE); and John Drake (NMUSD) Rossella Santagata           …Continue Reading New William T. Grant Foundation: Reducing Inequalities in Opportunities to Learn Mathematics through Adaptive Teacher Professional Development

New Spencer Foundation Grant: Interrogating Recruitment Practices of Black Candidates into Teacher Preparation

  Interrogating Recruitment Practices of Black Candidates into Teacher Preparation  Spencer Foundation | $75,000 | 2021-2022 PI: Dr. Brandy Gatlin-Nash, Assistant ProfessorCo-PI: Dr. Elizabeth van Es, Professor Project team: Dr. Acacia Warren, &Dr. Rossella Santagata, UCI; Dr. Becky G. Sumbera, CSU San Bernardino; Dr. Carlos Sandoval, Wested Brandy Gatlin-Nash           Elizabeth van Es The teaching…Continue Reading New Spencer Foundation Grant: Interrogating Recruitment Practices of Black Candidates into Teacher Preparation

Doctoral student awarded NSF GRFP Non-Academic Research Internship

The National Science Foundation awarded doctoral student Joseph Wong an NSF GRFP Non-Academic Research Internship for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity. Wong will intern at Immerse Inc., a virtual reality (VR) software company that specializes in language education. The company has developed a VR language teaching and learning platform, allowing language lessons to be delivered using immersive…Continue Reading Doctoral student awarded NSF GRFP Non-Academic Research Internship

U.S. Department of Education awards CFEP a $5.2M GEAR UP grant

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $5.2 million Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs partnership grant to the University of California, Irvine. This supplements a GEAR UP grant of $5.4 million awarded to the UCI Center for Educational Partnerships in the fall of 2018. The goal of GEAR UP grants is…Continue Reading U.S. Department of Education awards CFEP a $5.2M GEAR UP grant