By: Martha Martinez Acosta For this special blog post, CREATE’s student worker, Martha Martinez Acosta, interviewed the San Diego Area Writing Project’s new administrative assistant, Angela Ojeda Perez. Angela offers a unique insight both as an alumna of UC San Diego’s Preuss School and as a recent graduate of UC San Diego. Martha is a…
Read all about #USvsHate updates in this latest National Writing Project’s Medium Publication
By Mariko Yoshisato, Erika Reece, Mica Pollock, Sarah Peterson, Minhtuyen Mai, Dolores Lopez, Benjamin Kennedy, Reed Kendall, Kim Douillard, and Dana Chung In the fall of 2020, we talked with teachers across the country who feared that the summer’s crucial energy for antiracism would fade as school began. We talked with teachers and youth exhausted…
CREATE to Collaborate with the Computer Science Teachers Association on a New U.S. Department of Education Grant
By Monica A. Sweet, Ph.D., CREATE Co-Director of Research and Evaluation Over the past summer and in the midst of a pandemic, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA; http://www.csteachers.org) asked us to collaborate with them in writing for a new large-scale grant from the U.S. Department of Education. We agreed, and I’m happy to report…
CREATE statement on the events of January 6, 2021
As a nonpartisan organization, we believe unwaveringly in a multiracial democracy and in the right to vote to shape this country’s direction so that all communities and individuals can thrive. We thus condemn in the strongest possible terms the storming and desecration of our shared Capitol and government on January 6 by people who demanded…
Op-Ed Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Making the Case for Computer Science Education during COVID
This week CREATE’s Researcher-Practitioner Minhtuyen Mai published an Opinion Editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune with Dr. Beth Simon from the Department of Education Studies. The Op-Ed highlights the urgency of prioritizing computing education during this pandemic. A special thank you to Inga Kiderra, Director of Communications for the Division of Social Sciences, for helping…
Special Episodes of STEM 10+ Series: Scratch Videos in Spanish and English!
Laura Santos, Dana Chung, Minhtuyen Mai and Gabriel Innocenzi As promised from last week’s blog post about our #CSforSD Launch, we have completed two coding videos, instructed by two amazing students in San Diego! The English version is by Joyce Garafolo, 2019 National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) winner and junior at Canyon…
We Just Launched a #CSforSD Ed Week Google Site and It’s Full of Goodies!
By Minhtuyen Mai, Dana Chung, Laura Santos, and the Computer Science Teachers Association San Diego Chapter The Computer Science Teachers Association San Diego chapter, along with CREATE at UC San Diego’s CS Team, just launched this website for CSEdWeek. The website is filled with goodies including Scratch Games, downloadable #CSforSD Zoom backgrounds, a video contest,…
#USvsHate feels more important than ever
Mica Pollock and Kim Douillard #USvsHate is a national project of UC San Diego CREATE and Prof. Mica Pollock’s #Schooltalking. Our national expansion is now also powered by the teacher networks of the National Writing Project. In 2017, we and educator partners across San Diego started #USvsHate (us versus hate) as an “anti-hate“ initiative. We…
“Girls Don’t Give Up!” Summer Virtual Coding Camps Ignite Latinx Girls to Learn Computer Science
For this special post of our CREATE blog, we have a guest high school student, Joyce Garofalo, who is the 2019 National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Award recipient. CREATE at UC San Diego became the supporting institution for Joyce’s summer project. Learn more about her experience below! Her face lights…
UC San Diego’s Climate Champions Bridges University, K-12, and Community
Twenty Climate Champions—teacher leaders, youth leaders, scientists, and social scientists—are meeting weekly online to achieve a shared goal: to get more teaching, learning, and action on climate in San Diego County schools. “The vast majority of teachers in California believe climate should be taught in schools, but less than half actually do. We want to…
