Category: Department Updates
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Save the Date, Nov.5 : Lift Up Future Teachers on Giving Day!
Dear Community, Mark your calendar—Giving Day is coming on November 5, 2025. Thanks to generous Giving Day donors in past years, every LIFT Scholar has received a scholarship. This year, we’re aiming higher—and your donation can make it happen. Your support helps future teachers focus on what truly matters: preparing to make a difference in California’s classrooms. 📅 Save…
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Education Department Día de los Muertos Celebration Thurs. Oct. 30, 5-6:30PM
Dear Education Community, We invite you to join us in honoring and remembering our ancestors with coffee, pan de muerto, and a shared ofrenda/altar as part of our annual Día de los Muertos celebration. Día de los Muertos Education Department 2025 Celebration Date and time: Thursday October 30th 2025, 5-6:30 pm Location: Breezeway, McHenry Library…
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Education Ph.D. program virtual information sessions
The UC Santa Cruz Education Ph.D. program will host virtual information sessions for prospective applicants who would like to learn more about our program and hear from our faculty, staff, and current students. Dates and times View Post Location Virtual on Zoom Register Interested attendees can register using the form to receive event details via…
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Pham co-authors comic and article on ethnic studies possibilites and pedagogy
Assistant Professor Josephine H. Pham served as co-author on “‘I’ll walk out if you walk out’: A comic on how students of color utilize racial micropolitical literacy in their everyday lives,” in the Occasional Paper Series. In collaboration with Angel Trazo, an artist and Ph.D. candidate in cultural studies at UC Davis, their publication, in…
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Bunch co-edits and publishes on instruction, curriculum, and multilingualism
Professor George Bunch recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Intercultural Education focused on Complex Instruction (CI), a pedagogical approach that invites K-12 students to participate in cooperative, open-ended, and multimodal small-group learning tasks designed to counter status differentials that lead to differential participation patterns and learning opportunities. Contributors to the special issue, which…
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Equitable Policy and Practice for English Learners: What Should Teachers and School Leaders Know and Do
Professor and Chair George Bunch created this open-access module in a series of professional learning resources for teachers and teacher educators.The module challenges deficit orientations toward the education of English Learners and proposes alternative viewpoints for explaining challenges facing this population, recognizing the strengths that speakers of languages other than English bring to the classroom,…
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Academic Literacy in Mathematics
Professor Judit Moschkovich published the 2023 chapter “Academic Literacy in Mathematics to Frame Mathematical Writing Research and Practice: Writing and Revising for Mathematical Practices” in the volume Illuminating and Advancing the Path for Mathematical Writing. The chapter addresses how Moschkovich’s academic literacy in mathematics framework informs research and practice on mathematical writing.
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Walls, Bridges, Borders, Papers: Civic Literacy in the Borderlands
Assistant Professor Michelle Aguilera published this 2022 article in Research in the Teaching of English, demonstrating the ways in which a third-grade teacher in the Southwest responded to students’ concerns about Trump’s rhetoric about immigration and constructing a border wall throughout his campaign and inauguration. Through the collection of field notes, interviews, and students’ writing,…