2003: Growing Into a National Model for Schools of Education
Founding Dean Harold Levine lays out his vision for the School: to serve as a model for a different kind of school of education, one whose work makes a concrete, identifiable and relevant difference for educators, policymakers, students and communities.
Milestones & Achievements
- School graduates first class, sets goal to triple number of faculty and double number of graduates
- School hosts first public lecture: Capital City Education Forum features United States Acting Deputy Secretary of Education Eugene Hickock
- Alumna Tamara Thornell (BS ’93, Credential ‘94) named California Teacher of the Year
“We are a different kind of education school.
At UC Davis, the integration of research, practice
and policy drives our number one focus: the
education of real kids in real
classrooms.”
–Founding Dean Harold G.
Levine