Videos
Noel Enyedy
February 4, 2014 – Distinguished Educational Thinker Speaker Series
Noel Enyedy, Associate Professor in the UCLA Urban Schooling Division of GSE&IS and Director of Research at the UCLA Lab School, gave a talk at the UC Davis School of Education as part of the Distinguished Educational Thinker Speaker Series.
His talk, “Play, Scientific Modeling, and Digital Technologies: A Case Study of Learning Physics Through Pretend Play,” focused on the use of augmented reality technology and pretend play in early education to capitalize on young children’s developmental strengths and capabilities.
Alumna Lynn Romano Guardian Teacher Scholar
Lynn Romano (Credential ’12, MA ’13) spent part of her youth in foster care. Now she is a teacher in Milpitas, Calif., thanks in part to a Guardian Teacher Scholarship she received from the UC Davis School of Education to help her earn a teaching credential and master’s degree. Hear more from Lynn about her life, the unique perspective she brings to teaching, and how the Guardian Teacher Scholarship helped her realize her dream.
Gifts to the UC Davis School of Education Support Student Scholarships
November 19, 2013
School of Education Alumna Behnaaz Ferozepurwalla (Credential ‘13) is featured in this short video. She talks about how gifts to the UC Davis School of Education Annual Fund helped provide her with a scholarship to complete her teaching credential. School of Education Alumni Council Chair Sandi Redenbach (Credential ‘73) also speaks briefly about why she supports scholarships.
Heidi Ballard on Citizen Science at Commonwealth Club
Podcast of presentation on August 26, 2013
Backyards, Beaches, Birds and Bees: Citizen Science
Listen to the podcast in iTunes here. Choose #4: Backyards, Beaches, Birds (posted on 9/2/13).
Fifth Annual SAYS Summit Video
May 2013
Watch this video overview of the 2013 SAYS Summit, featuring program leaders, poet mentors, students and teachers.
2012-2013: A Year in Pictures
Take a look back at the School of Education’s 10th year anniversary in photos.
Rudy Corpuz – “It Takes a Hood to Save the Hood”
May 2, 2013 - Critical Consciousness Speaker Series
As part of the School’s Critical Consciousness Speaker Series, Rudy Corpuz, Jr., gave a talk at UC Davis titled “It Takes a Hood to Save the Hood: A Testimony from the Frontlines.” View the talk here.
Alumni Featured on FosterMore.Org
Making a difference in their communities
UC Davis School of Education alumni are featured in three moving videos about foster youth scholars and their mentors. In the first video, Lynn Romano (Credential ’12, MA ’13), the 2011-12 recipient of the School’s Guardian Teacher Scholarship, talks about her journey to earning her teaching credential and her dream of becoming a teacher.
Barbara Rogoff
April 10, 2013 - Distinguished Educational Thinkers Speaker Series
Barbara Rogoff, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz, gave a talk at UC Davis titled “Learning Through Pitching In.” The 2012-13 Distinguished Educational Thinkers Speaker Series is co-hosted by the UC Davis School of Education, Graduate Group in Education and the School of Education Alumni Annual Fund. Lectures are free to the public.
November 2012 – “Overcoming Invisibility: A Chicano/Latino Forum on Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education.”
Podcast, posted April 8, 2013
Listen to this panel discussion from a forum hosted by the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis. Gloria Rodriguez, associate professor of education in the UC Davis School of Education, moderated. Featured here is former School of Education professor Patricia Gandara, now an education professor at UCLA, and Richard Ramirez, an administrator at American River College who graduated from the School’s Capital Area North Doctorate in Education (CANDEL) program in 2011. Download Gandara’s PowerPoint presentation here.
Guadalupe Valdés
January 14, 2013 - Distinguished Educational Speaker Series
As part of the UC Davis School of Education’s Distinguished Educational Thinker Series, Professor Guadelupe Valdés gave a talk at UC Davis in January 2013 titled “Understanding Language in Schools.” Valdés argues that English learners must be given access to grade level content while they are learning English. “Writing is about ideas, but we pretend with English learners that language must emerge pristine before they can engage in the academic content. We must push for comprehension before focusing on production because it is most important for learning.”
How Can Universities and K-12 Schools Work Together to Improve STEM Education?
An interview with Dean Harold G. Levine
In November 2012, Harold Levine, dean of the UC Davis School of Education, was interviewed at the California STEM Summit in San Diego.
Jeff Duncan-Andrade
February 21, 2013 - Critical Consciousness Speaker Series
As part of the School’s Critical Consciousness Speaker Series, Professor and high school English teacher Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D. gave a talk at UC Davis titled “Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete.” Duncan-Andrade is associate professor of Raza Studies and Education at San Francisco State University and Director of the Educational Equity Initiative at the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (ISEEED).
Noah Finkelstein
February 11, 2013 - Distinguished Educational Speaker Series
As part of the UC Davis School of Education’s Distinguished Educational Thinker Series, Professor Noah Finkelstein gave a talk titled “Science, Math and Engineering: Their Influence on National Education Transformation.” Finkelstein is professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
