Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies is home to two departments. Each is a leader in their field, helping to pioneer what's next in the Education and Information worlds.

UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

An ecosystem of K-12 teaching schools where UCLA partners to develop, study, share, and advance innovative best practices.

The work at UCLA Ed&IS is guided by the principles of individual responsibility and social justice, an ethic of caring, and commitment to the communities we serve. Learn more about our mission and values, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our faculty and students, our history and more.

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are defining features of UCLA Ed&IS and we embrace them as a source of strength.

Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

Learn more about the undergraduate and graduate academic programs we offer, when program information sessions are being offered and how to apply.

Addressing Real World Change through Excellence

Faculty and Research

UCLA Ed&IS Professors are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society—education and information.

Faculty

Redefining their fields and advancing knowledge as a pillar of society and culture.

Our Faculty

Black Male Institute (BMI)

The CalKIDS Institute at UCLA amplifies, strengthens, and evaluates the new statewide children’s savings account program, the California Kids Investment & Development Savings Program (CalKIDS). The Institute is committed to economic equity, higher education access, and the financial well-being of families.

CalKIDS Institute

The Center for Critical Internet Inquiry’s work explores interdisciplinary intersections of digital technologies and society, with the goal of creating fairness, justice, equity, and sustainability in relationship to our technological engagements.

Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (c2i2)

Learn More about the Center for Critical Race Studies in Education

The Center for Critical Race Studies in Education (CCRSE) at UCLA along with the staff, visiting scholars, and invited authors are dedicated to producing and publishing research with the goal of exploring questions related to theoretical frameworks, methodology, methods, conceptual tools, and practice associated with Critical Race Studies.  The inaugural research briefs series was released in June 2016 with five issues.  They explored cultural intuition, racial battle fatigue, racial microaggressions, critical race history methodology, and community cultural wealth.

Center for Critical Race Studies in Education

Center for Information as Evidence is an interdisciplinary forum addressing the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as evidence.

Center for Information as Evidence

Center for International & Development Education (CIDE) works to enhance educational capacity, facilitate human and economic development, and promote cross-cultural exchanges related to international and development education.

Center for International & Development Education (CIDE)

Center for Knowledge Infrastructures conducts research on scientific data practices and policy, scholarly communication, and socio-technical systems, exploring methods of data collection, innovations in scaling and workflows, and multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems.

Center for Knowledge Infrastructures

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing sets the national research agenda by creating new methodologies for evaluating educational quality, student learning, and use of assessment data.

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST)

The Center for Transformation of Schools is dedicated to partnering with the education ecosystem to bring about systems change through Humanizing Research, Validating Practices, and Transforming Policies with key stakeholders to support equitable educational outcomes for historically underserved students.

Our vision is to be a catalyst for learning communities to boldly nurture and protect the dignity, wellbeing, and full potential of all students.

Center for the Transformation of Schools

Center X is dedicated to dramatically changing education for the underserved students of Los Angeles by designing and conducting programs that produce K-12 teachers committed to social justice, instructional excellence, and caring in low-income urban schools. It is home to the UCLA Teacher Education Program (TEP), Principal Leadership Institute (PLI), and numerous professional development and teaching certificate programs. It also houses several state-level projects.

Center X

Children’s Understanding of Economic and Social Inequality Lab

Civil Rights Project at UCLA is creating a new generation of research in social science and law on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles

The Community Archives Lab at UCLA explores the ways that independent, identity-based memory organizations document, shape, and provide access to the histories of minoritized communities with a particular emphasis on understanding their affective, political, and artistic impact.

Community Archives Lab at UCLA

CONNECT links nationally recognized researchers with teachers and administrators at UCLA Lab School and public schools in Southern California to investigate central issues in education.

CONNECT, A Center for Research and Innovation in Elementary Education

HERI promotes institutional improvement through an increased understanding of higher education, and is home to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program which conducts the largest ongoing national studies of college students in the United States.

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)

Improvement By Design’s mission is to build collaborative research, design, and technical assistance arrangements that work on P-20 problems effectively.

Improvement By Design

The Institute for Democracy, Education and Access seeks to challenge pervasive inequalities in education by conducting research, analyzing policy, and working alongside communities to increase access to high-quality public schools and college.

Institute for Democracy, Education and Access

The Institute for Immigration, Globalization and Education conducts multidisciplinary research engaging policymakers, practitioners, and institutional leaders to expand opportunities for diverse, vulnerable, and marginalized students.

Institute for Immigration, Globalization and Education

At Momentum, we employ mixed-methods approaches to conduct cutting-edge research on efforts to diversify computing and technology fields. We are particularly interested in efforts to recruit women and people of color into computing education pathways and retain them into technology fields. We are social scientists with a pragmatic lens to our work. As such, we collaborate with other key players working on these issues to generate knowledge that informs policy and practice.

Momentum: Accelerating Equity in Computing and Technology

As a bridge from our campus and into neighborhoods across Los Angeles, the Pritzker Center teams with UCLA researchers and community leaders to challenge and resolve systemic injustices facing children and families.

Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families

Learn More About the Paulo Freire Institute

The Paulo Freire Institute seeks to gather scholars and critics of Freire’s work in permanent dialogue to foster the advancement of new theories and concrete interventions in the real world.

The Paulo Freire Institute

The Sudikoff Family Institute for Education enhances awareness of critical education issues by utilizing the press and other media to convey the work of GSE&IS faculty to policy makers, educators, and the general public.

Sudikoff Family Institute

At the UCLA Capacity Building Center, we are not just developing capacity; we are nurturing a global community of change-makers and innovators. The Center plays a unique role in cultivating impactful global partnerships. We synergize the expertise of academics, practitioners, and policymakers in a shared mission of co-learning and equal partnerships. Our aim is to strengthen both human and institutional capacities through reflective inquiry and strategic collaboration. Committed to advancing stakeholder participation and realizing the concept of local ownership as a tangible outcome, we focus on impactful changes that meaningfully improve lives. Our ultimate goal is to spark a wave of empowerment, connecting and strengthening communities around the common goal of prioritizing local solutions to local challenges.

UCLA Capacity Building Center

The UCLA Center for Community Schooling is a campus-wide initiative to advance university-assisted community schools. As stable anchor institutions, universities play a unique role as K-12 community school partners. Our research, teaching, and service missions inform and are informed by the work of local schools and communities. In partnership, we are poised to disrupt historical inequalities and reimagine schooling as a public good that prepares all students to succeed in college, careers, and civic life.

UCLA Center for Community Schooling

Learn More about the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice

UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice

Learn More about the UC/CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning

UC/CSU California Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity and Learning

At UCLA Ed&IS, groundbreaking research is more than a concept — it’s a plan of action. 


Our nationally renowned research centers and institutes are doing fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

Research

Research Centers and Projects

XChange is an online repository of publications and resources released in themed issues on the work of transforming public schools. The issues include articles, evaluation reports, research papers, lesson plans, professional development tools, dissertations, and book reviews.

XChange: Publications and Resources for Public School Professionals

Founded in 2004 by doctoral students from UCLA Ed&IS, InterActions is a peer-reviewed, open access journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and inclusive scholarship. The journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, educators, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice.

Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education & Information Studies

The UCLA School of Education and Information Studies’ magazine highlights the public scholarship of our faculty.

UCLA Ed&IS Magazine

Our scholarships are not just meant for the bookshelf.

Our journals integrate research and practice. They serve as a reference, resource, and action plan for a wide array of audiences, including educators, policy makers, researchers, and the general public.

Publications

Scholarship Publications

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