At the UC Davis School of Education, we believe in being responsive to the needs of the field. In addition to leveraging the resources of the greatest public university in the world , we are also committed to tackling sometimes sensitive and entrenched issues with bold thinking and innovation.

Charter School: West Sacramento Early College Prep

Our role in a unique charter school that we helped design and manage enables us to put students first in a very real way and makes us accountable for the outcomes.

EdForward: Our Center for Innovation in Education

We know that everyone engaged in education needs to find new and more effective ways to tackle the most difficult issues facing public schools. We also realize we need to find new sources of funding for our initiatives. EdForward is a unique effort among education schools to find ways to develop services and products for the education market that enable us and our partners to try out cutting edge solutions and discover new and better ways to serve the needs of all learners.

Equity Summit

Closing the achievement gap is one of the most controversial, yet persistent, challenges in education. There are a number of solutions being tested and implemented, but one cause cannot be ignored: the existence of social inequities in many of our schools and communities. The School’s annual Equity Summit is a regional effort to bring together community leaders, K-12 administrators and teachers, and higher education professionals to tackle the underlying causes of social injustice in the context of schooling and beyond.