CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #4)

1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Come read "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks with us this summer! About this event We invite you to register for all the dates you can attend. However, you are welcome to register for just the first meeting now and register for the following ones later. Refreshments will be [...]

CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #5)

1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Come read "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks with us this summer! About this event We invite you to register for all the dates you can attend. However, you are welcome to register for just the first meeting now and register for the following ones later. Refreshments will be [...]

BRUIN LEARN Prep Session for Fall Quarter

Hershey Hall 158

BRUIN LEARN Prep Session for Fall Quarter September 7, 2022 9:30am - Noon | Hershey Hall 158 RSVP Today Join CEILS and UCLA's Online Teaching and Learning Instructional Designers, and additional members of the LMS transition team to get specialized support building and designing your course on Bruin Learn -- UCLA's new learning management system [...]

CONVERSATION SERIES: BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST EDUCATOR | 3 PART SERIES BEGINS JAN 27th

CONVERSATION SERIES: BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST EDUCATOR The Winter Quarter dates are January 27, February 3, and February 9 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The CEILS Becoming an Anti-racist Educator Conversation Series reflects and creates space for discussion of one’s own racial identity development and how racial identity and other social identities impact our learning environments. With colleagues, [...]

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings

1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM [...]

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings

1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM [...]

“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities

Zoom

“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities  Talk Description: High-impact practices are educational experiences, such as undergraduate research experiences, that can support undergraduate student retention. This talk will share findings from a recent national survey, exploring how the extracurricular nature of [...]

“A Justice Partnership for Course Innovation” featuring Siobhan Braybrook and the Life Sciences Liberation Team | Ed Talks & Happy Hour

UCLA

In this project, we are working to imagine and create a more liberated introductory life science classroom. We chose to take a radical path to inclusive course design by engaging in an authentic and meaningful approach we call a Justice Partnership; our team, Life Sciences Liberation (‘LS Lib’), centers and empowers Black womxn-identifying students. Our [...]

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 1 – 3

Terasaki Life Sciences 5100

Heather McGhee Book Talk & CEILS Book Club Dear Colleagues, I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National [...]

Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action

Boyer 159

On Wednesday, May 3rd, join CEILS for Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action from 3 - 4:30pm in Boyer 159. We will be reading excerpts from Stamped (For Kids) by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi and This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges and discussing the impact of [...]