Center for Education, Innovation, and Learning in the Sciences

Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design
2023-05-11 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design
Barret Michalec, PhD, Arizona State University
Thursday, May 11th, 2023, 9 am PT
Event Zoom Link | Event flyer

Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action
2023-05-03 15:00 - 16:30 | 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 banned books on our current and future students. Light refreshments to follow.

Unlocking Student Potential Through Transformative Learning Webinar
2023-05-03 09:00 - 10:00 | Online
You are warmly invited to attend an overview of Qedex’s Transformative Educator Program (TEP) inspired by the Transformative Learning initiative at the University of Central Oklahoma and its positive impact on faculty, student retention rates, and student success in the classroom & workplace.
May 3rd (9AM PT, 10AM MT, 11AM CT, 12PM ET) | 50 minutes
As higher education grapples with a shifting student demographic, increased numbers of adjunct faculty, and growing skepticism about the value of a college degree, we see the TEP as a timely, effective, affordable, and accessible way to address these challenges. Participants will receive supporting data, take-away resources to support instructors on your campus, and details about upcoming faculty cohorts in the TE Program which includes access to MERLOT’s e-portfolio platform.
Transformative Learning has been around for decades (Mezirow, 1978; Cranton, 2006) but there’s been a renewal of interest in recent years as a result of measurable impacts that demonstrate its capacity to advance teaching and learning (in the US and abroad).

REGISTER HERE:
https://www.qedex.org/transforming-education/
Presenters:
Jeff King
Assistant Vice President of Transformative Learning,
University of Central Oklahoma
Katherine Whitaker, Dean, School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Division of Academic Affairs,
Voorhees University
Linda Bloomberg, Associate Director, Faculty Support and Development,
Sanford College of Education, National University
Stuart Blacklock, CEO, Qedex
Facilitator:
Hoag Holmgren, Chief Innovation Officer, Qedex

Kind regards,
Hoag Holmgren
www.qedex.org

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 1 - 3
2023-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | 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 Book Award has been called “One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color”.

The book talk, followed by Q & A with the author, will take place at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) on Thursday, June 1st at 5:30 – 6:30 followed by a reception.

In preparation for this book talk, the Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) is hosting a book club to discuss The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. We will read and discuss the book in four sections. Please feel free to drop in as your schedule allows. The book club dates are:

Tuesday, May 2, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 1-3 | Terasaki Life Sciences 5100
Thursday, May 11, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 4 & 5 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Friday, May 19, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 6-8 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Friday, May 26, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 9 & 10 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

To RSVP for the May book club dates and book talk, please click here.

We invite you to use the Discussion Guide as you read the book: DISCUSSION GUIDE | Heather McGhee.

We look forward to having you join us for this exciting visit.

Best wishes,
Tracy
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Tracy Johnson
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair
Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Dean, Life Sciences, UCLA College

About Heather McGhee
Heather designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. Over her career in public policy, Heather has crafted legislation, testified before Congress and helped shape presidential campaign platforms. Her book The Sum of Us: WhatRacism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The New York Times called it, “The book that should change how progressives talk about race.” and the Chicago Tribune said, “Required reading to move thecountry forward…”. It is a Washington Post and TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2021. The paperback version will be out in February 2022. The Sum of Us will be adapted into a Spotify podcast by Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama in June 2022, and into a young adult readers’ version by Random House Children’s in 2023.

Heather is an educator, serving currently as a Visiting Lecturer in Urban Studies at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. She has also held visiting positions at Yale University’s Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Program andthe University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. She is the recipient of honorary degrees from Muhlenberg College, Niagara University, and CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.

For nearly two decades, Heather helped build the non-partisan “think and do” tank Demos, serving four years as president.Under McGhee’s leadership, Demos moved their original idea for “debt-free college” into the center of the 2016 presidential debate, argued before the Supreme Court to protect voting rights in January 2018, helped win pro-voter reforms in five states over two years, provided expert testimony to Congressional committees, including a Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 2017, and led the research campaigns behind successful wage increases for low-paid workers on federal contracts, as well as at McDonalds, Walmart and other chain retailers.

As an executive, McGhee transformed Demos on multiple levels. She led a successful strategic planning and rebranding process. She designed a Racial Equity Organizational Transformation which led to an increase in staff racial diversity (from27 percent people of color to 60 percent in four years), an original racial equity curriculum for staff professional development and a complete overhaul of the organization’s research, litigation and campaign strategies using a racial equity lens. McGhee also nearly doubled the organizational budget in four years. A strong coalition-builder and trustedcross-movement leader, McGhee deepened Demos’ influence through new networks and collaborations inside and outside the Beltway.

An influential voice in the media and a former NBC contributor, McGhee regularly appears on NBC’s Meet the Press andMSNBC’s Morning Joe, Deadline White House and All In. Her 2020 TED talk is entitled “Racism Has a Cost for Everyone”. She has shared her opinions, writing and research in numerous outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico and National Public Radio. McGhee’s conversation on a C-SPAN program in 2016with a white man who asked for her help to overcome his racial prejudice went viral, receiving more than 10 million views and sparking wide media coverage that included a New York Times op-ed, a New Yorker piece and a CNN town hall. Inspring 2018, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz asked McGhee to advise the company as it designed an anti-bias training for 250,000 employees in the wake of the unjust arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia store. McGhee wrote a report with recommendations for how Starbucks can apply a racial equity lens to their businesses, and how other companies both large and small can benefit from doing the same.

McGhee also played a leadership role in steering the historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and was one of the key advocates credited for the adoption of the Volcker Rule.

She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law,. McGhee is the chair of the board of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and alsoserves on the boards of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Foundations’ US Programs and Demos.

For more information, please visit www.heathermcghee.com and follow Heather on Twitter: @hmcghee and Instagram and Facebook: @HeatherCMcGhee

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“Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms” conference
2023-04-28 - 2023-04-29
“Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms” conference
The Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program, an initiative from the UCLA Division of Humanities, is pleased to host the “Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms” conference focused on language pedagogy. Conference sessions will be held both in person and remotely on Friday, April 28th and remotely on Saturday, April 29th, 2023. The keynote speaker will be Professor Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies, Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy).
More information can be found on the website. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 31, 2023. For questions, please contact epic@humnet.ucla.edu.

CIRTL@UCLA presents Teaching-As-Research Day
2023-04-26 12:00 - 17:00 | UCLA
CIRTL@UCLA is excited to announce the first ever Teaching as Research Day held on April 26 from 12-5pm PST. TAR Day will include several events including a watch party luncheon for the CIRTL Network TAR Presentations from 12-1:30, a social, games, and conversation hour from 1:30-3, and a series of lightning talks followed by a poster session and happy hour reception from 3-5. You are welcome to come for some of the time or stay the whole day- whatever works with your schedule! RSVP here!
If you would like to present your TAR project, there are 3 possible ways you could do it (AND you can do all three if you want!)

Sign up for the all-network presentations (12-1:30). You can learn more and sign up here.
Present a poster at the CEILS Ed Talks Poster Session (4-5).
Present a lightning talk before the poster session (3-4). If you are presenting a poster, you also have the option to present a 5-10 minute talk before the session starts to garner interest in your project and invite folks to visit and engage with more questions. Ideally folks presenting a lightning talk will also present a poster, but if you are unable to make the poster session and still want to present to an audience at UCLA, you are welcome to give a lightning talk. Register to present a poster and/or lightning talk here.

Eudaimonia Awards 2023 Ceremony presented by the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center & the MindWell Team
2023-04-20 19:00 - 20:30 | James West Alumni Center
The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA & the MindWell team invites you to our annual Eudaimonia Awards 2023 Ceremony!
April 20 | 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Food and refreshments will be served!
James West Alumni Center (Collins Conference Room and Patio), Los Angeles, CA 90095).
RSVP HERE

Dr. Dacher Keltner will receive a special Eudaimonia Award and share a keynote address about Awe – Connecting to the Greater Good. Dr. Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the science of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies compassion and awe, how we express emotion, and how emotions guide our moral identities and search for meaning. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. He is the author of The Power Paradox and the bestselling book Born to Be Good, and the coeditor of The Compassionate Instinct. His latest book, Awe, is a national bestseller. Dr. Keltner’s address will be followed by a Q&A session, and an award ceremony, during which we will learn about the work of UCLA Bruins who have reflected the ideals of Eudaimonia by living a life of purpose and meaning with commitment to the greater good.

"A Justice Partnership for Course Innovation" featuring Siobhan Braybrook and the Life Sciences Liberation Team | Ed Talks & Happy Hour
2023-04-19 15:00 - 18:00 | 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 process is a pedagogical partnership and is grounded in principles of design justice. Come hear about our process and ongoing work!
Pedagogical partnerships: Instructor-student partnerships that draw on student experiential knowledge to challenge institutional norms & practices, while also helping them navigate such a system (Cook-Sather et al, 2020).
Design justice: an approach to design that centers marginalized communities and aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities (Costanza-Chock, 2020).

Following the Ed Talks, we will be having Happy Hour in the Hershey Hall Front Courtyard at 4pm!

UC Wide Academic Integrity Virtual Symposium
2023-04-17 08:00 - 2023-04-21 17:00 | Zoom
UC Wide Academic Integrity Virtual Symposium
RSVP Today
The integrity of the teaching and learning mission of universities is facing a challenge unlike those experienced in the past with the growth in companies and people who will complete academic work on behalf of students and the launch of generative artificial intelligence that provides answers and assignments in a matter of seconds. We cannot keep teaching, learning, and assessing as we did in the 20th century, and we can’t ignore our societal obligation to ensure that our degrees are accurate representations of a graduate’s knowledge and skills.
The symposium, sponsored and organized by the Academic Integrity Office at UC San Diego, is open for all University of California system members and is free of charge. Attend one or more of the live sessions. Any questions should be directed to the symposium organizers at integrity@ucsd.edu.

Webs of Science: Mentor Networks Influence Social Integration into STEM Careers
2023-04-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Webs of Science: Mentor Networks Influence Social Integration into STEM Careers
Paul Hernandez, PhD, Texas A&M University
Thursday, April 13th, 2023, 9 am PT
Event Zoom Link | Event flyer

“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities
2023-04-12 15:00 - 16:00 | 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 many high-impact practices may disproportionately prevent STEM students with disabilities from fully benefiting from these experiences.
Emma Goodwin Bio: After completing her B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA, Emma worked as a non-student teaching assistant in the MIMG Research Immersion Laboratory courses and was introduced to biology education research through CEILs. These experiences led her to pursue her PhD in Biology Education Research at Portland State University, and she is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in STEM Education Research at Arizona State University.
About ED Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings: 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 education research are welcome to participate.

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings
2023-02-15 15:00 - 16:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 education research are welcome to participate.
Winter 2023 Dates: February 1, 8, and 15 (3-4pm) in Terasaki 1100

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings
2023-02-08 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-01 15:00 - 16:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 education research are welcome to participate
Winter 2023 Dates: February 1, 8, and 15 (3-4pm) in Terasaki 1100

CONVERSATION SERIES: BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST EDUCATOR | 3 PART SERIES BEGINS JAN 27th
2023-01-27 09:30 - 11:30
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, participants in these discussions will spend intentional time on student-centered, inclusive and equitable, and anti-racist action strategies that can be implemented in the classroom and laboratory learning environments to work against the impacts of racism.
Feedback from a recent participant:
“Before this series, I would have been hesitant to interrupt a microaggression – due to not knowing if it was a big deal and feeling uncomfortable. Now I realize it’s important to say something, even if I’m not sure exactly what to say.” and “I plan to mitigate the impacts of racism in higher ed by including historically underrepresented and minority student voices in the planning process for curriculum”
*Our upcoming workshops are open to instructors, faculty, and teaching postdocs who teach courses in the Life and Physical Sciences. There will be future offerings for graduate students, dates TBD.*
RSVP FOR WINTER QUARTER

3-Part Series: Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
2022-10-17 14:00 - 2022-11-01 16:00
3-Part Series: Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
Multiple Days (see below)
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Please RSVP for the series and select your three session dates here.

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, participants in these discussions will spend intentional time on student-centered, inclusive and equitable, and anti-racist action strategies that can be implemented in the classroom and laboratory learning environments to work against the impacts of racism.

These workshops will be in-person, interactive 2 hour sessions with didactics and small group discussions. Each session builds on the content and experience of the previous session, therefore we ask that you attend all 3 sessions. Please see the workshop descriptions below:

Part 1 – Inside work: Reflecting and Exploring Identity, Privilege, Definitions of race, racism and antiracism. Offered Monday, Oct 17 and Tuesday, Oct. 18th (pick one).
Part 2 – Outside work: Identifying inclusive and antiracist pedagogy and strategies in the classroom, tools and practice interrupting microaggressions. Offered Monday, Oct. 24 or Tuesday, Oct. 25th (pick one).
Part 3 – Discuss and identify strategies to implement and create a more anti-racist climate, apply to an action plan to take anti-racist action in your learning environment, get feedback from colleagues. Offered Monday, Oct 31st or Tuesday, Nov. 1st (pick one).

All sessions take place from 2-4pm.

Two-Day Active Learning Bootcamp
2022-09-15 - 2022-09-16
SEPT 15 – 16: Two-Day Active Learning Bootcamp
(If you’ve attended a week-long summer institute in the past, this is a great refresher and additional practice!)

Learn more and RSVP here.

After our day-long Faculty Workshop, we’ve gotten feedback that participants wished they had more time to actually practice active learning approaches they’re considering for their courses.

In this Bootcamp, you will learn about and practice an array of instructional approaches to actively engage your students in their learning and collaboratively with one another, discussing how each approach can be adapted to small and large class sizes. Then, you will get support in figuring out how to actually implement these in your own course, designing specific questions and group activities to fit your course goals.

One Full Day - CEILS Annual Faculty Workshop on Best Equitable Practices in Teaching
2022-09-14
SEPT 14: One Full Day – CEILS Annual Faculty Workshop on Best Equitable Practices in Teaching

Learn more and RSVP

This annual, all-day faculty workshop addresses select topics in science and math education. This workshop is appropriate for everyone—new or veteran teachers—interested in learning more about equitable teaching practices based on education research. We especially encourage instructors who either are relatively new to college teaching or who have instructional responsibilities in large enrollment gateway courses for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors.

Topics include effective course design as well as student-centered teaching strategies that incorporate active learning and create equitable and inclusive classroom environments. Many of the instructional techniques focus on facilitating peer learning and other collaborative and group activities designed to support student success in large enrollment classes.

The format and emphasis of this day-long event has been modified from previous years, so even if you have participated in this workshop before, you might consider attending again and learning something new!

View agenda here: https://tinyurl.com/CEILS-FW22-agenda

BRUIN LEARN Prep Session for Fall Quarter
2022-09-07 09:30 - 12:00 | 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 (Canvas). During this session we will be offering time and space to work on your course with support staff present and available to pull up a chair and answer questions and offer recommendations. Our goal is to help you walk away with near fully developed Week 0 and Week 1 course modules, and a much greater comfort level using Bruin Learn.

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 7th | 9:30am – Noon
Location: Hershey Hall 158

Agenda:

9:30 – 10:00 Quick Orientation to Bruin Learn (Presentation)
10:00 – 12 noon: Work on your course; staff will be available to help you and answer questions at any point.
i<Clicker Support Available! An i<Clicker representative will be present at this session and available to help you get setup (kits will also be available).

Note: Coffee, tea, and snacks will be available outside of the room in the courtyard for breaks (no eating will be permitted in the room due to Covid restrictions). Masks must be worn indoors.

This event has been updated - click below for updated site.
2022-08-24 - 2022-08-31
CEILS SUMMER SCIENTIFIC TEACHING INSTITUTE: Foundations of Equitable Course Design & Inclusive Teaching

CEILS SUMMER SCIENTIFIC TEACHING INSTITUTE: Foundations of Equitable Course Design & Inclusive Teaching
2022-08-24 - 2022-08-31
CEILS SUMMER SCIENTIFIC TEACHING INSTITUTE:
Foundations of Equitable Course Design & Inclusive Teaching

August 24 – 31, 2022 (excluding the weekend)
9:00am – 4:00pm | In-person

Apply by Friday, July 1st: Click Here

The CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute is designed to introduce you to evidence-based strategies for inclusive teaching and course design. The experience is facilitated by CEILS staff and other UCLA faculty; and you will receive feedback on your daily assignments, culminating at the end of the week with a syllabus draft, assessment plan, sample lesson plan, and embedded feedback strategy. Tips, strategies, and resources for equity, accessibility, and remote/online design will be integrated into the workshops and course site resources.

Be proactive and get your fall course ready in August with this opportunity to take a full week to focus. Finalize your syllabus, assignments and activities with strong support and feedback from peers!

Learn more about this annual event here.

CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #5)
2022-08-09 15:00 - 16:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 served in the Hershey Hall Front Courtyard after each book club meeting. Discussion from 3 – 4pm; Refreshments at 4pm.
While we plan to meet in-person, a Zoom link will be sent out to all registered participants as well.
Reading Schedule:
June 21: Intro, Chapter 1 & 2
June 28: Chapter 3 & 4
July 12: Chapter 5, 6 & 7
July 19: Chapter 8 & 9
August 9: Chapter 10, 11 & 12

CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #4)
2022-07-19 15:00 - 16:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 served in the Hershey Hall Front Courtyard after each book club meeting. Discussion from 3pm – 4pm; Refreshments at 4pm.
While we plan to meet in-person, a Zoom link will be sent out to all registered participants as well.
Reading Schedule:
June 21: Intro, Chapter 1 & 2
June 28: Chapter 3 & 4
July 12: Chapter 5, 6 & 7
July 19: Chapter 8 & 9
August 9: Chapter 10, 11 & 12

CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #3)
2022-07-12 15:00 - 16:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #2)
2022-06-28 15:00 - 16:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

CEILS Book Club: Teaching to Transgress (Meeting #1)
2022-06-21 15:00 - 16:30 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education Research | Learning Community Meeting
2022-05-13 15:00 - 15:50 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
CEILS Journal Club for STEM Education Research | Learning Community Meetings
Fridays from 3:00 – 3:50 PM, Apr 15 – June 3, 2022
Location: Terasaki Life Sciences 1100, Zoom option also available
Please email Supriya (ksupriya@ceils.ucla.edu) if you would like to attend via zoom or have any questions

5th Annual Creating Connections Symposium on Writing Pedagogy | Hosted by UCLA Writing Programs and the Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy
2022-05-19 08:00 - 2022-05-20 17:00
Writing Programs and the Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy are excited to announce the 5th Annual Creating Connections Symposium on Writing Pedagogy, May 19-20! The symposium (which will be hybrid with the exception of one fully in-person session) will feature new takes on previous topics like contract grading and multimodal composition, as well as venturing into new territory with a session on neurodiversity and accessibility and a collaborative session (with the EPIC-Lang conference) on intersections of writing and language pedagogy. Please see below for a brief schedule, and check out our webpage for more information. You can also RSVP here.

Thursday, May 19th
Session 1: Neurodiversity and Accessibility In Higher Education
3:00-4:00pm PDT, hybrid (365 Kaplan Hall | Zoom link will be provided to those who RSVP)
Followed by a workshop with UCLA All Brains
4:15-5:00pm PDT, hybrid (365 Kaplan Hall | Zoom link will be provided to those who RSVP)
Friday, May 20th
Session 2: Alternative Grading Methods
11:00am-12:00pm PDT, in person (348 Kaplan Hall | materials will be available online)
Session 3: Metacognition and Technology in Multimodal Classrooms
1:30-2:30pm PDT, hybrid (348 Kaplan Hall | Zoom link will be provided to those who RSVP)
Session 4: Rethinking the Teaching of Writing in the Language Classroom
3:15-4:15pm PDT, hybrid (348 Kaplan Hall | Zoom link will be provided to those who RSVP)
Reception
4:30-5:30pm PDT, in person (outdoor location TBA)
All events are free, and we welcome interested UCLA graduate students, instructors, library staff, and administrators to attend. Although not required, we encourage participants to bring relevant ideas for assignments, activities, and teaching strategies to share at each session.
We will check UCLA symptom monitoring for all in-person events and strongly encourage masks for indoor events to keep immunocompromised members of our community safe. If you require any accommodations to participate, please let us know via the RSVP form.
