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…
New UC San Diego CREATE Initiative to Strengthen K-12 Climate Education
“Creating Climate Champions” will leverage campus resources to support K-12 climate learning The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at UC San Diego has launched a one-year pilot program to advance climate education in San Diego County K-12 schools. Creating Climate Champions at UC San Diego CREATE is a collaborative…
UC San Diego’s CREATE and SDSC Awarded National K-12 STEM Grant
Innovation Bloc Grant Part of $75 million U.S. Department of Defense Initiative The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense STEM Education Consortium (DESC) has awarded a one-year grant to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the UC San Diego Mathematics Project housed at the university’s Center for Research on Educational…
CREATE Statement, May 29, 2020
We at UC San Diego CREATE echo the critical voices lifted by our campus’ community centers and institutional leaders (https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/statement-on-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-and-ahmaud-arbery), condemning the brutal murders of Black people at the hands of police and the devastating disproportionate impact of this pandemic on communities of color in our region and nationwide. We also condemn powerful speakers in…
Staff Association Newsletter Series: Marshmallow Chemistry/Química con Bonbones for Kids (and parents!)
The UC San Diego Staff Association and CREATE educators are offering a series of resources and guidance to help lessen stress for campus colleagues with school age students. This month’s Staff Association newsletter features bilingual videos produced by UC San Diego CREATE’s Alberto “Beto” Vásquez and Ronny Vásquez that explain atoms and molecules using mini…
Your child will be fine! K-12 Learning Advice from CREATE
The UC San Diego Staff Association is tapping professionals from across UC San Diego to help colleagues and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this week’s Staff Association Newsletter, UC San Diego CREATE Associate Director Susan Yonezawa shares her thoughts about what’s important when children are learning and adapting to distance learning. Your…
#USvsHate Now a Six-Week Online Challenge during School Closures
The #USvsHate team has some great news to share: Teaching Tolerance is taking #USvsHate online for the next six weeks! “In this era of school closures, we’re thrilled Teaching Tolerance is taking #USvsHate online,” said Mica Pollock, CREATE director and professor in the Department of Education Studies at UC San Diego. “It’s a perfect distance…
