The School of Education recently launched EdForward: The Center
for Innovation in Education. Traci Schmidt is the Center’s
founding director.
EdForward’s purpose is to create products, programs and services
that help support the vision and mission of the School and to
strengthen the School’s ability to develop and expand innovative
solutions for education.
For more information on this new venture, contact Director Traci
Schmidt at taschmidt@ucdavis.edu
or (530) 752-2934.
New Summer Adventures in Enrichment Camp for Kids in Grades 4-12
In conjunction with Campus Recreation, the School of Education
offers an exciting Summer Adventures in Enrichment Camps for kids
in grades 4-12. And for the first time, there will be classes
offered in Woodland. Keep reading to learn more about the camps
and how to register students.
Q: What is the mission of this new center in the
School of Education?
EdForward’s purpose is to create products, programs and services
that help support the vision and mission of the School and to
strengthen the School’s ability to develop and expand innovative
solutions for education.
EdForward, which launched in February 2010, has been actively
pursuing new innovative opportunities for the School of
Education. With a goal of identifying and implementing revenue
generating products and services in support of the vision and
mission of the School, EdForward has not only identified viable
opportunities, but has conducted numerous feasibility analyses,
has implemented one ongoing program and is in the process of
implementing several more, all while continuously feeding its
pipeline of possibilities.
EdForward participated recently in a wildly innovative
educational summit called Big Ideas Fest (www.bigideasfest.org) where
teachers, professors, students, administrators, researchers,
policymakers, non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate
leaders, foundation executives and technology pioneers came
together to tackle some of education’s most intractable
challenges. How can we help schools break free from
conventional modes of learning? How can we ensure that
innovations and technologies flourish? How can we make
education relevant to all of today’s students, at all levels of
learning? The beauty of the conference though…was that is
was not a conference of yesteryear with snooze-inducing
speeches…instead…
